Rubio is going nowhere.
He is a lightweight who hasn’t been vetted.
He has tons of baggage. He’ll go down in flames when he starts taking hits.
Cruz, Jeb and Christie will go for his throat on the next debate. If Rubio finishes second they are done.
Trumps ground game in IA was -10 points.
If we split that he is down to 26 points. Also this poll has 8% undecided. Bravo Sierra.
We need a likely voter screen, which would have no undecided voters, or very little.
I think some of the undecided voters are either Cruz/Trump supporters.
If Cruz picks up 4 of the undecided and 5 of Trump’s softies, he is at 23% or only three points behind Trump.
I would take that split going into SC.
[Cruz, Jeb and Christie will go for his throat on the next debate. If Rubio finishes second they are done.]
If Trump is smart, he will mellow his tone in this debate.
If Cruz starts ranting and raving at him, Trump needs to take the higher road and calmly point out that Cruz is unhinged and suffering from TDS. This unpredicted tone will through the media in a tizzy as they won’t know what to hammer Trump on.
To keep up with the soap opera drama, they will need to sensationalize any arguments between Cruz and Rubio.