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Grand Old Panic as Trump blows away the establishment
Yahoo Politics ^ | 2/10 | Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Jon Ward, Holly Bailey

Posted on 02/10/2016 6:20:47 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

The only problem? It’s hard to see how any of the other establishment Republicans get past Trump and Cruz at this point.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who mauled Rubio in Saturday’s debate and hoped for a boost in New Hampshire as a result, isn’t even likely to try. As soon as it became clear that Christie would not finish in the top five Tuesday, despite spending more days in the Granite State, at 75, than any other candidate, the governor announced that he was heading home to “take a deep breath” and reassess his struggling campaign.

Meanwhile, even as Kasich, the man who finished second to Trump, celebrated at his victory party in Salon A of the Concord Courtyard Marriott, his advisers and supporters admitted that he faced significant challenges ahead.

“He has almost no money,” said Spencer Bachus, a former Republican congressman from Alabama who served for 16 years with Kasich. “The big money has gone to Bush, Trump is self-financed and Cruz has a lot of Texas money. John has been operating on a shoestring.”

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