Marco Rubio is the biggest loser of 2016

We can debate many things about the outcome of Super Tuesday, but one thing should be indisputable: Marco Rubio is hands down the biggest loser of 2016.

Don't let the "he's no longer winless!" line convince you otherwise. After seventeen contests, the one-time pundit-appointed frontrunner has eked out just one win, in Minnesota. That might be one more than John Kasich and Ben Carson. But you can't be a loser if no one ever seriously considered you a possible winner.

Rubio's hapless campaign, fueled on high-octane hot air, once spoke of a game plan to take the field, building from narrow losses in Iowa and New Hampshire to a first victory in South Carolina. Then Nevada became his firewall. Then there was Virginia. And now? Thirteen states voted on Tuesday, and Rubio is only one caucus-voting state's first choice to serve as the GOP's standard-bearer — and the third choice behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz just about every place else.

But wait — there's still a plan! As the voting was taking place on Tuesday afternoon, Rubio campaign manager Terry Sullivan toldThe New York Times that he'd spoken to donors that morning to reassure them that Rubio was in it for the long haul and sure to win his home state of Florida on March 15.