Posted on 05/01/2015 3:28:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican insiders in early-voting states say a crucial battle is emerging in the 2016 presidential race between Marco Rubio and Scott Walker, competing to establish themselves as the party’s “bridge” candidate who can appeal to both the establishment and grass-roots activists.
As it has become increasingly apparent that they are key rivals, the men have started taking regular,subtle but unmistakable,shots at one another. Walker talks about the need to nominate someone who is not from Washington and implicitly compares Rubio to Barack Obama. Rubio suggests that there is “no way” a governor like Walker is prepared to deal with global crises facing the United States.
Dozens of interviews on the ground in the early states, backed up by recent polling,find many Republicans torn between Walker and Rubio.
A Public Policy Polling survey this week shows Walker and Rubio in first and second place in Iowa. “The key to Walker’s success is that he’s winning both among voters who are most concerned about electability in the general election and among voters who are most concerned with having the most conservative candidate,” the Democratic firm said in a release explaining the numbers. Rubio and Walker tied in the poll for being the most frequent second choice of voters.......
Rubio and Walker differ in many ways—a blue-collar Midwesterner who shops at Kohl’s; the son of Cuban immigrants who is married to a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader – but they are trying to woo an overlapping group of voters. There is a large bloc of establishment-minded activists who do not want to support Jeb Bush for the nomination out of dynasty and electability concerns, and there is a swath of deeply-conservative voters who love guys like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee but won’t support them because they want a nominee who they believe can win the general election.....
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Politico’s Ho hmann is busy stoking up the stove.
Toooooooooooooooooo mannnny Mehhiccanns, Marco baby.
Gov. Scott Walker says he’ll announce his intentions about running as soon as the Wisconsin 2015-17 state budget is passed and signed (end of June is the deadline for that).
I can’t see how Rubio is doing so well. I am calling BS on this!!!!
But if this is true then people and the low information voters like his youthful innocent unscathed type of image. Like the 2008 Obama. Plus his wife was a Miami Dolphins cheerleader? Stranger things have happened
I agree. This is BS.
Politico. Enough said. Just liberals trying to suppress Conservative vote.
Marco who?
Amnesty Marco? That guy?
Thought he took the night train outta town.
Walker.......compares Rubio to Barack Obama.
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Are you freakin’ kidding me? Compares Rubio to Obama? That is off the chain. Comparing any Republican to Barack Obama is beyond retarded. But, we knew it was gonna happen. Stupid ass Republicans devour and destroy each other while the RINO waltzes to the Coronation. JUST DAMN!
What are Politico's thoughts about the corruption of Hillary Clinton?
Just following in the steps of many at FR - some here are starting to opine that Cruz's visa thoughts make him every bit as dangerous as who we have in office now.
This is nothing new. The media reports it this way, this refers to Rubio going after Walker about not being up on foreign policy - Walker say's Obama served on the Foreign Affairs Committee (like Rubio) - that it's about leadership.
Don't be so quick to jump your chain before you read the article.
That said, my own view is that any Republican candidate is wasting his time -- and worse, doing a disservice to the party -- if he expends much effort attacking his rivals. We need to concentrate our fire on the real enemy, and the real enemy is not another Republican who scores 2.54% to my left on the ideological purity meter, not when the Democrats are taking the country down for the count. The base will rally to whichever reasonably conservative candidate does the best job of (1) flaying the left; (2) presenting a credible conservative agenda; and (3) keeping his nose clean.
Unlike four years ago, when many of our top prospects chose not to run, we have an abundance of talent coming forward. The media will be on its usual preemptive search and destroy missions, and I am sure we are about to find out the Marco Rubio jaywalked in 1993, that Ted Cruz told an off color joke in college, that Scott Walker was once in the same county as someone who had a confederate flag on his pickup, and that Jeb Bush is related to the Georges. (And we will be told that Hillary therefore looks good in comparison.) We do not beat this game by beating up on each other. We beat it by staying positive, and staying on the attack against the real opponent.
Liberals making up stories to support RINOs. What is new in the world?
So far Walker has RESPONDED to candidates Cruz and Rubio (who feel they must make the case against Walker because Walker has consistently remained near or at the top of polls, even though he isn’t a declared candidate).
In other “news” Bernie Sanders threatens Hillary.
“.........many Republicans torn between Walker and Rubio.”....
Only if Cruz drops out. We need someone with a strong backbone who will do what is necessary to straighten out the mess caused by odumbo.
The Fools at Politico continue playing their fav game.
They grossly underestimate Mr. Cruz.
AFAIC, they should ignore any but declared candidates.
Who cares what Walker says now. Until he declares, he can say anything.
That's nonsense.
The real opponent is the GOPe. We cannot have a conservative country until the country has a conservative party.
The GOPe is intent on foisting upon us a moderate “electable” candidate (Bush, or standby candidates Rubio and Walker). The GOPe had its way last time with Romney and look what happened.
It is up to True Conservatives to do what they can to prevent the GOPe to sabotaging our candidates yet again. If that means pointing out GOPe candidate flaws, then so be it.
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