“The ten candidates under 5% are The Splitters....doing their assigned duty, for ¡Jeb! and the GOPe.”
The GOPe has assigned them a new role now that Yeb has fallen so much that he’s essentially kaput: namely, Get Trump!
The new GOPe strategy is becoming pretty obvious: though practically none of the 16 dwarfs have a snowball’s chance in hell of being nominated based on their own merits, don’t expect any to actually drop out of the race, because their sole job assignment from the GOPe is to “Get Trump!” so as long as the kommie media continues to give them a national platform for attacking Trump.
That’s why you’ll see zero percenters like Graham and one percenters like Christie still wielding national megaphones all the way until Trump has the nomination locked up. It takes zero dollars to appear on national television and pretend you are a candidate so long as the kommie media is willing to pretend along with you.
Interesting to see if the super PACs that aren’t supposed to be directly supportive of one campaign or another (but in all cases definitely are) decide to start spreading money around to keep the midgets in the race so they can attack Trump while Jeb remains “presidential” and above the fray.