What Is Marco Rubio After in Iowa?
Because of this, the Rubio campaign argues that as long as their candidate can dominate the establishment field in the early primaries, Republican donors will soon pressure the others occupying that space — chiefly Bush, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio — to leave the race. Until that happens, Rubio’s advisers assert, Rubio can stay even with Trump and Cruz in the overall delegate count simply by winning Florida and Ohio on March 15 while placing third in the 33 other contests up to that point. Once the party does anoint Rubio as the last, best hope to defeat Trump and Cruz, money will pour in and delegate-rich states like New York, Pennsylvania and California will follow.
.. “this president has been a disaster” because Obama believes that “America is an arrogant global power that needs to be cut down to size.”
.. In his campaign’s view, Rubio’s charisma — and Cruz’s lack of it — is potentially determinative. “It matters to voters more than anything else,” one member of Rubio’s team told me. “Look how bad the underlying numbers were for Obama in 2012. But at the end of the day, voters liked him better than Mitt.”