If you take out cheating, trump won and every voter knows it now.
Cruz got 3.4% more support because of belief that Carson was out of the race? And Trump and Rubio wouldn’t get any bump from that whisper/rumor?
Carson was expected to get 10% that night and got 9.3%. Did Cruz take the other 2.7% from Rubio (who came in 1.2% behind Trump)?
Cruz: 27.7 percent
Trump: 24.3 percent
Rubio: 23.1 percent
Carson: 9.3 percent
Paul: 4.5 percent
Bush: 2.8 percent
Carson’s share would’ve been higher (he was polling as the #2 candidate before Trump went on the attack) if the vote had been a few months earlier.
“If you take out cheating, trump won and every voter knows it now.”
Bingo.
And it was pointed out succinctly at last Night’s debate. Carson did a thorough job in the beginning, and Trump gave a brief reminder at the end.
Yup. I don’t usually listen to Rove, but when he explained that it would only take 4 votes being changed from Carson to Cruz in each district, then mathematically it was a piece of cake to put Cruz into first.
If every caucus got the message that Carson was out and vote for Cruz, which it would appear they did, then there was definitely a switch in the numbers and the polls would be irrelevant.