Posted on 11/05/2015 10:02:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The race for endorsements among Republican presidential candidates has been a slow one since we began keeping track of the endorsement primary earlier this year. Jeb Bush has sat atop our leaderboard, but many of his endorsements came before he officially announced his candidacy, and he's received only three since Labor Day -- all from House members.
But this week, Marco Rubio has shown signs of momentum, picking up endorsements from three fellow senators, including one today from Sen. James E. Risch of Idaho. In contrast to Bush's 3 endorsement points since Labor Day, Rubio has received 22 -- by far the most of any Republican candidate over that span.
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“If Rubio does end up being the Jebacita replacement, and ends up (through RNC dirty tricks and open primaries) getting the nomination, there are two questions in my mind:”
If that were to occur, Trump would have no compunction about running as a third party candidate and it would be over for Boobio and the GoPee.
The GopE is like the guy in the bar that hiting on every chick in there and striking out with them all and finally got accepted at last call it’s going to be the dog he’s avoided is his one shot (Trump) to take home or he takes no one
Marco is going to be about as successful the GOPe as Jebbie was.
The second choice!
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