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[B-Dubs]

I'm sensing more panic today than on the SC or NV election nights. Friend who worked for Jeb said the feel about last night was that Rubio did what he had to do and the endorsements were coming. Well the endorsements are still coming but Christie has people panicking due to the validation he gave Trump, and the potential for more from desperate officials.

Trump and Christie are destroying Rubio on some personal levels, this is insane. And given that Trump is probably going to sweep the south he could bury Rubio. I'm guessing the endorsements will come immediately after Super Tuesday. McCain, W, HW, etc.

They'd have to, Rubio wouldn't be able to survive a loss in Florida. If he's going to be the guy he'll need a win.

 

[The Lamonster]

He's going to have a ton of pressure to drop out now and endorse Rubio.

I don't think he will though.

and then there's Carson...does anybody even really care if Carson endorses someone? lol

 

[Ekai]

Honestly any functioning adult would see these three clowns and vote for kasich. Holy shit this country has lost it.

I've made this point before but Kaisch is hardly a worthwhile candidate. If anything he's more dangerous than the others because he pretends to be moderate while being vehemently against lgbt rights , women and racial minorities.

"Hope and Change" "Hope and Change"

At least Obama extrapolated on his positions and isn't detestable.

 

[CCS]

How's that not innuendo? 😝 My berniebro was texting me through this whole thing in total shock. I mean my god. What have we done?

I'm not very good at this... we have cleared the way for our Queen to ascend. No one can stop her now.

 

[Jarmel]

He's going to have a ton of pressure to drop out now and endorse Rubio.

I don't think he will though.

He's drooling at that VP slot.

 

[Mac_Lane]

He needs to get the nomination nod first and then the destruction of Trump will begin in earnest. His base will never leave him, but you are already seeing cracks in the GOP establishment wall saying they'd take Hillary over Trump.

God, I certainly hope so. With some luck, it will allow a more sane GOP to emerge after this complete mess of a primary.

 

[gcubed]

and if Trump still gets the nomination after all that then what?

Mr T said it best -

 

[M.D]

The smug face he makes as he's throwing the bottle... priceless.

 

[User 463088]

I'm not very good at this... we have cleared the way for our Queen to ascend. No one can stop her now.

Werk.. Yaassssss. Turn it out.

Omg Hillary will rekt him in a debate. Imagine his response the day after she eats his soul on national television. Oh my god. I'm like....this is better than sex.

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

OMG this is like a dream come true. GOP is done for.

 

[Macho Madness]

OMG this is like a dream come true. GOP is done for.

The "establishment" of the party, sure. The party itself may be stronger than ever. That's what's scary.

 

[CCS]

Werk.. Yaassssss. Turn it out.

Omg Hillary will rekt him in a debate. Imagine his response the day after she eats his soul on national television. Oh my god. I'm like....this is better than sex.

Just so long as they don't send Castro against Christie. That would kill my boner so fast watching him be destroyed.

 

[Brinbe]

The party will be broken up if he's the nominee.

Rubio's right about that,

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

The "establishment" of the party, sure. The party itself may be stronger than ever. That's what's scary.

Don't ruin my buzz from all this. =[

I mean...it has to be done, right? Who is going to out trump trump? Ever?

 

[Lord Fagan]

 

[User 463088]

Just so long as they don't send Castro against Christie. That would kill my boner so fast watching him be destroyed.

If Christie is the Veep, it cannot be Castro. It simply cannot.

 

[Makai]

Werk.. Yaassssss. Turn it out.

Omg Hillary will rekt him in a debate. Imagine his response the day after she eats his soul on national television. Oh my god. I'm like....this is better than sex.

There is no correlation between debate performance and polling changes. The people watching have already made up their minds.

 

[Jarmel]

Rubio looks legit shook right now.

 

[NeoXChaos]

Castro can handle Christie

 

[Dan]

Please conservatives, run an independent spoiler candidate. For the good of the nation.

 

[CCS]

Castro is useless. Please anyone but him.

 

[RastaMentality]

Why is Rubio guaranteeing he's going to win Florida? Reporter just asked him and he straight-faced said "We're going to win Florida".

Also, the anti-Hillary trump press conferences are gonna be something fiercely sexist. I can't see him attacking her the same way he's done Carson/Cruz/Rubio without going full sexist.

 

[Officerrob]

Why is Rubio guaranteeing he's going to win Florida? Reporter just asked him and he straight-faced said "We're going to win Florida".

Well, he's gotta win somewhere. If he can't win his home state his campaign is over anyways

 

[Gruco]

In all seriousness, this does feel like a turning point in the campaign. Seems like any pretense is gone. It's all out war now. Nothing held back.

 

[Grief.exe]

Why is Rubio guaranteeing he's going to win Florida? Reporter just asked him and he straight-faced said "We're going to win Florida".

Trump did tell him to swing for the fences last night.

 

[kirblar]

National Review Verified account
‏@NRO

Why President Trump Would Be a Bigger Disaster Than President Clinton http://natl.re/EVUDFX

It's an op-ed, but given their prior pieces and editorial slant, we should expect an explicit Clinton endorsement down the line.

What a world we live in.

 

[Rafa=FedKilla]

"The party of Raegan. The conservative movement." Voters realize the conservative movement hasn't done shit for them, they don't care about ideology, they care about themselves.

 

[Brinbe]

The fucking Rubot repeating the exact same attack lines in the exact same way. Holy fuck, he doesn't learn at all.

 

[Macho Madness]

https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/703303911705186305

 

[Basileus777]

Why is Rubio guaranteeing he's going to win Florida? Reporter just asked him and he straight-faced said "We're going to win Florida".

If he loses it he's dead anyway. He has nothing to lose by guaranteeing it.

 

[cartoon_soldier]

CNN keeps replaying this endorsement

haha

 

[QuiteWhittle]

https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/703303911705186305

Exactly.

 

[shem935]

I cannot believe I missed this. How does Rubio try to counter?

 

[cartoon_soldier]

Gabby Giffords cut a campaign ad for Hillary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAGr0UrRTl4

 

[FloydtheFathead]

Exactly, It's like he watched old promos from the attitude era and gives them out.

Why is Rubio guaranteeing he's going to win Florida? Reporter just asked him and he straight-faced said "We're going to win Florida".

To be fair, what else is he going to say? He must win Florida for him to be able to have a chance.

 

[Brinbe]

https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/703303911705186305

3 pts based on what poll? And who is acting like that? You best believe no one is gonna take Trump lightly. Electoral college is all that matters anyway.

 

[BoboBrazil]

Why is Rubio guaranteeing he's going to win Florida? Reporter just asked him and he straight-faced said "We're going to win Florida".

Also, the anti-Hillary trump press conferences are gonna be something fiercely sexist. I can't see him attacking her the same way he's done Carson/Cruz/Rubio without going full sexist.

Rubio has his fingers in his ears(probably 4 in each ear they are so big) and isn't listening to the polls showing him behind in Florida.

 

[Jarmel]

Looking forward to those articles saying how Christie is a traitor and deserves to be shot in the streets.

 

[Roland_Gunner]

Exactly.

Huffpo has the, admittedly too early, head-to-heads at Clinton +5. Thats a lot at the Presidential level. Enough for her to win North Carolina.

http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-general-election-trump-vs-clinton

 

[Officerrob]

3 pts based on what poll? And who is acting like that? You best believe no one is gonna take Trump lightly. Electoral college is all that matters anyway.

RCP national polling average of Hillary vs Trump is Hillary +2.8

 

[Box of Kittens]

Why is Rubio guaranteeing he's going to win Florida? Reporter just asked him and he straight-faced said "We're going to win Florida".

Losing Florida will be so catastrophic that any additional damage from such a guarantee is incidental. Might as well project as much confidence as possible.

 

[B-Dubs]

Rubio has his fingers in his ears(probably 4 in each ear they are so big) and isn't listening to the polls showing him behind in Florida.

So he's ignoring every poll then.

 

[Cesare Borgia]

and if Trump still gets the nomination after all that then what?

Honestly I don't know. That Politico story about a GOP third party run is interesting but would certainly cause many to blame the inevitable loss on the RNC instead of Trump. It seems to me that it makes more sense to let Trump fail while consolidating resources down the ticket. Another republican presidential loss would be devastating but if I was a republican I'd rather lose the WH again than the senate or house.

The only options are terrible. If they go all in with embracing Trump they run the risk of being tied to his bigotry for years to come. It seems inevitable that he's going to say ignorant or bigoted things between now and October, so how can they embrace him?

Then again whether they embrace him or not...if he's the nominee he's the nominee. Trump will forever be tied to the GOP. For the first time in awhile I think a party split could happen. If you're Jennifer Rubin or David Frum or McCain or even Hugh Hewitt...what do you do between April and November if Trump is the nominee?

 

[FloydtheFathead]

Looking forward to those articles saying how Christie is a traitor and deserves to be shot in the streets.

Good to know Trump won't let him die on them.

 

[BoboBrazil]

So he's ignoring every poll then.

Yep.

 

[User 406]

Yeah.. as shit as he is.. (I know Manky, I know). At least the man seems semi-sane in some ways.

You've been too long out of Ohio! Kasich's hypno powers are working on you!

Kasich is an asshole Republican, but he sounds like every other asshole Republican I've heard since I was a kid. Trump, Cruz, etc. are different.

No, it's Kasich that is different. Trump, Cruz, and Rubio are asshole Republicans, and it shows. They have no problems showing just how heartless they are. Kasich has a talent for hiding his heartlessness and making people think he's a moderate, when he's just as vile if not more so in his policies than the rest of the field. He doesn't have Reagan's charisma, but he's damn sure got Reagan's talent for making people think he's a nice guy.

If you could have followed his governorship here in Ohio, you'd see just how determined and skilled he is at undercutting the social safety net and the rights of minorities and women. Even when he has a setback he'll turn around and pretend it was all due to his kindness and generosity while he quietly finds some other route towards fucking over whoever he was trying to fuck over.

Seriously, don't fall for it. He's top tier awful.

I've made this point before but Kaisch is hardly a worthwhile candidate. If anything he's more dangerous than the others because he pretends to be moderate while being vehemently against lgbt rights , women and racial minorities.

This guy gets it.

 

[kirblar]

https://twitter.com/asymmetricinfo/status/703303911705186305

I think she underestimates just how much of a benefit Hillary Clinton being a known stable quantity is in this race - she's a very atypical Dem nominee, but a very typical GOP nominee (has run before, it's her "turn".) GOP defections will happen to a degree far surpassing Dem ones.

You have to just look at the numbers and put ice water in your veins.

 

[VendettaRed07]

If I was a racist republican, I think I would have a Helga Pataki like alter to Trump in my closet.

 

[Basileus777]

Rubio has his fingers in his ears(probably 4 in each ear they are so big) and isn't listening to the polls showing him behind in Florida.

Why would he acknowledge those polls? It won't matter if guaranteeing the state would be more damaging when losing it is already a death blow.

 

[Plinko]

Why is Rubio guaranteeing he's going to win Florida? Reporter just asked him and he straight-faced said "We're going to win Florida".

Also, the anti-Hillary trump press conferences are gonna be something fiercely sexist. I can't see him attacking her the same way he's done Carson/Cruz/Rubio without going full sexist.

RNC probably told him they'll rig it for him.