Was Marco Rubio’s campaign ever more real than Ben Carson’s?
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Was Marco Rubios campaign ever more real than Ben Carsons?
Rubios campaign barely had a ground game, his base was nonexistent, and he never led in the pollswhy was he ever considered the heir apparent to anything, let alone the Republican nomination?
Politico has a great post-mortem on Rubio and the diagnosis is simple: His campaign was so confident that Rubio seemed presidential, that it didnt do what was necessary to win the nomination. His team was so convinced that voters would recognize this that Rubio never really invested in the kind of get-out-the-vote infrastructure that Ted Cruz has used to secure several states. Heres the money quote:
Its almost like they wanted to prove they could win without doing some of the stuff people have to do to win, said one Rubio supporter very familiar with the campaigns planning. Were they just fucking lazy or arrogant?
As Politico notes, Rubio thought he could win the people of Iowa from the set of Fox & Friendsnot by knocking on doors or actually visiting Iowa.