Those who follow Rubio and Cruz, are ideologs that come from the same CAMP. If they would have united... and selected ONE, Trump would not have won.
Trump is an old-style politician: he figures our how to achieve his goals, given the situation in which he finds himself. He's just flexible enough, but ruthless, and he gets what he wants.
Trump sees Rubio as the easiest target and seems to be saving him for last. He never hits Rubio very hard.
Trump said yesterday that he is dispatching his army of volunteers to Texas. He is going for the headshot to take out Rafael. Just my opinion.
Now comes Rubes. And DOWN GOES RUBIO. DOWN GOES RUBIO!
Trump won’t bother Rubio is my guess.
Trump has no pattern to predict.
Cruz is 100% predictable, the day he stops posturing as a preacher politician is the day he might be a threat.
America has lost their faith in politicians, especially the proffesional types that use a bible, its a smell like bad body odor.
Romney just endorsed Rubio!.The Kiss of Death, LOL!
I think it goes beyond your thoughts. Who is the most vulnerable to the pent-up anger of the electorate in general? Focus more on the biggest threat and at the time it was Bush because of all the money.
Now Rubio finds himself in the establishment hot seat with the exit of JEB!. When you figure that over 60% of the SC vote went to insurgents and Cruz neck and neck with him, I see a multi-front barrage coming to Rubio’s real record, despite his ability to try and paint a far different picture.
I am just thankful that Ted is getting an education on how to run a campaign. He can come back in 8 years and try not to be such a d*ckhead.
I categorically reject the patronizing, trite analysis of the South by New Yorkers. Their elections are always nuanced and sophisticated, despite electing a long string of hardcore leftists, but Southern states are always bare knuckle fights at the county fair, they say.
It’s as simplistic as it is cliched.
The Rubio is not a Natural Born Citizen if what I understand is correct. Neither one of his parents were citizens at the time of his birth. He does not qualify.
There is no doubt that Trump is using and isolation strategy to deal with one opponent at a time.
The GOPe is afraid of Trump. They have had their apple cart knocked over and their plans for amnesty and other things have disappeared into vapor.
I think everyone who supports Trump, has reservations about Trump. But they view him as the best chance to destroy the GOPe. They like that he’s not tolerating PC, and attacking the mediots too.
They want the entire cabal of leftist mediots, the GOPe, and the entrenched party apparatchiks, expurgated by any means necessary. If the vessel is Trump, then so be it. It doesn’t appear to matter that he doesn’t pass the purity test on a specific policy. The purity test they are applying is; they want the cabal destroyed.
That’s what I see in the many supporters of Trump that I know. The Cruz folks are more into the ideological purity tests, and he’s their guy. A troublesome insider.
We’ll see how it plays out. Only 4% of the delegates have been committed, and it will be more clear in the coming weeks.
The current trajectory seems to be Trump/Cruz 2016.
Trump is amazing/fascinating. “Make America Great Again” is a brilliant meme backed up real goals vets/military strength, wall/immigration, education/commie core, trade/jobs, self-funding/lobbyists, etc., etc.
There is no downside in a loss. (Well, I guess Americans have spoken and didn’t want to “Make America Great Again” - not that Trump ever considered that downside).
I said it to family and conservative co-workers, “Remember this day August 9, 2015. Donald Trump is the next President.” I was not a close follower of Donald Trump, but it all made sense.
HOORAY Trump
Who is Don Galt? (I also said to my family, It’s like Atlas Shrugged with a better ending)
Very well done....
You mentioned the Trump team. We know very little of the Trump team Trump is put down for having no political past and thus no political skills.
However, Trump some how managed to come up with an extremely skilled and very agile team that has bested the best in the business.
I am already working Part Deux to this post, it will appear later.
Mark Simone’s a huge Trump cheerleader .
Spot on analysis. Trump is treating this like the biggest deal of his life and eliminating his competition one by one. I can't wait until he gets to Hillary.
Super Tuesday will make or break the race for Cruz/Rubio.
Random thoughts on a Sunday morning...
Congratulations to Mr. Trump for winning the South Carolina Primary...
Ben Shapiro was correct in stating that Trump needs both Rubio and Cruz to stay in the race. He can’t win without them fighting for second place...
I believe Mr. Trump will ultimately prevail and win the Republican nomination because of the above...
The outliers (Bush, Kasich and Carson) received 22.7% of the vote in South Carolina...a big question is where does that support go in future primaries (yes I’m assuming all three won’t be around anymore)...I can’t see enough support to go to any one candidate that would have flipped the state.
Now things that make you go hmmmm...
On the downside for Trump...there were 130,000+ more votes cast in South Carolina in the 2016 primary than there were in the 2012 primary...yet Mr. Trump received LESS votes than Newt Gingrich did in 2012.
If either Cruz or Rubio make a deal and one gets out of the race (and it has to be relatively soon) then all bets are off. In fact I’d probably put my money (not necessarily my vote) on the one that remained.
Interesting times indeed...