Here, let's look at the turn back time machine right here on this site......
Posted on 03/01/2016 7:10:27 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Marco Rubio to drop out of the 2016 presidential race if he doesn’t do well on Super Tuesday.
“I think he has to get out,” Trump told Fox News in a phone interview. “You know, he hasn’t won anything, and Ted Cruz very rightly points out, you know, Marco has not won.”
Trump, Rubio and Cruz are generally seen as the only three candidates with a viable path to the Republican nomination. Trump has steamrolled to double-digit margins of victory in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. And Cruz won the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses and is expected to win Texas, which awards the largest share of delegates on Tuesday, but Rubio has yet to win a state — though he maintains he will win Florida on March 15.
“Little Marco Rubio, let me tell you, he’s been a disaster for Florida,” Trump said. “Doesn’t show up to vote. Never even shows up to vote. He’s got the highest miss record in the, you know, in the United States Senate, so Marco Rubio’s done a horrible job in Florida. That doesn’t come up for two weeks, but, you know, honestly, I don’t think he could be right now elected a dog catcher in Florida, so we’ll see what happens.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Many Cruz voters will move to Trump as will some Rubio voters who would think of Trump as the lesser of two evils.
Cruz supporters will never support Rubio.
But would Rubio supporters favor Trump or Cruz?
AS long as Cruz/Rubio mostly split the Trump opposition, Trump wins easily.
So what happened? It seemed as if the nasty campaign staff Cruz had to finally fire moved over to Rubio. If Rubio's not his own man enough to run his own campaign, he's not his own man. That just adds to the supposition that he's a total pro-invasion guy.
Then there's the overall impression. I do not like the two Cubans who were at each other's throats now tag-teaming against Trump. It looks more like an attempted coup than a campaign strategy.
He knows Queens-Brooklyn street fighting, that’s for sure.
Here, let's look at the turn back time machine right here on this site......
Here’s what is happening, IMO:
Tripwire Alert – The RNC, GOPe, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie and Donald Trump…
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/26/tripwire-alert-the-rnc-gope-marco-rubio-chris-christie-and-donald-trump/
A couple of excerpts - you should read the whole thing:
At the most basic of level we must remember candidate Marco Rubio was never supposed to be the GOPe’s standard bearer for the professional republican party. It simply was not his role.
A single-term, 44-year-old, freshman senator, with a wife, four kids, no accumulated wealth and no executive experience, does not independently mount a long-shot bid to become the chief executive office holder amid the power-elites who run the highest political offices.
Rubio was/is ‘a means’ – to an end. Rubio does not represent the end goal, he never did.
This is a point we have continually referenced since early 2014. This point surrounds the transparency of motive for a Marco Rubio run for the presidency. He is, quite simply, the least qualified candidate on the GOPe team.
Rubio was also the most severely non-vetted candidate that could ever enter the race. – example here – Knowing and accepting that fact, Rubio’s role in the original plan made a lot more sense.
In October 2013 through February 2014 when the constructs were designed, the reason for Rubio’s enlistment was to act as a necessary part of the campaign to deliver the Florida electoral fulcrum, the 99 Florida delegates. The republican party apparatus changing the primary date and distribution of those delegates (winner-take-all) was the visible second tripping of the Rubio tripwire which evidenced the GOPe roadmap’s validity.
Absent of Donald Trump entering the 2016 race in June ’15, the roadmap was a brilliant construct which would have delivered a Jeb Bush nomination. Look back upon the falling dominos and you see the structure clearly.
However, all of the best laid plans were thoroughly destroyed by the vulgarian, populist, entry. So where does that leave the architects, the power-brokers, today?
Marco Rubio knows he has a role to play, he is also aware the role has modified, and what we are seeing today is the necessary, and visible, change in that role.
The GOPe now need to tear down the Republican party from the direction it is going, if they are going to have any hope of retaining their position of power and influence.
He did look like he hadn’t had a good night’s rest in a few weeks. LOL Poor fella.
It looks like Trump gets enough Rubio supporters that losing Rubio would not give Cruz the win, except in very close states. Besides, Kasich gets a significant share of Rubio supporters if Kasich is still in the mix.
Cruz voters will go to Trump. Never to Rubio.
Trump has eased up on Cruz during this TX primary because he knows he will need TX in the future and that Texans really know and care about Cruz. Cruz voters will eventually help him. I am a Cruzite but this is the way it is going to go.
No, that’s not it at all. He’s playing games with Rubes, keeping him as a loser in the race that ensured Trump continues to dominate. Pretty funny.
Agreed.
BTTT
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