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brooklynite

(94,571 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 05:39 PM Mar 2016

Top Rubio adviser preparing donors for dismal Super Tuesday

Source: Politico

Marco Rubio's top campaign adviser huddled with roughly 40 bundlers and K Streeters Tuesday morning to prepare them for a difficult primary election night—as well as to brief them on the campaign's plan for what to do next.

Terry Sullivan told supporters at campaign headquarters that the Florida Republican could secure just 100 delegates from Super Tuesday states in one of the scenarios he laid out.

...snip...

Not everyone who attended left the meeting thinking the campaign had a workable plan to dethrone Trump as the party's expected nominee.

"It was a presentation that defied reality," said one Rubio backer. "They said their convention strategy was not contingent on winning any states... Even if you go to the (second ballot) why would anyone say Marco Rubio is the guy to give it to?

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/top-rubio-advisor-preparing-donors-for-dismal-super-tuesday-220046#ixzz41gWnRHWi

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Top Rubio adviser preparing donors for dismal Super Tuesday (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2016 OP
how does this jibe with the report that Cruz would drop out for a SCOTUS sinecure? villager Mar 2016 #1
You want to put your money on Roger Stone? brooklynite Mar 2016 #2
I'm sure that's a false rumor. AtheistCrusader Mar 2016 #3
Hit by a meteor? longship Mar 2016 #4
He'd be the nominee for sure. AtheistCrusader Mar 2016 #5
Did you just picture Ted Cruz rolling a giant boulder across the roof of Trump Tower, to line up AtheistCrusader Mar 2016 #6
That would be a much more interesting event. longship Mar 2016 #7
 

villager

(26,001 posts)
1. how does this jibe with the report that Cruz would drop out for a SCOTUS sinecure?
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 05:41 PM
Mar 2016

In other words, do the Repubbies have any actual "Plan B" at all, at this point?

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
3. I'm sure that's a false rumor.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 05:44 PM
Mar 2016

There's no way they let Cruz out of it now. Rubio is useless, and they're probably praying for Trump to be hit by a meteor.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
6. Did you just picture Ted Cruz rolling a giant boulder across the roof of Trump Tower, to line up
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 06:02 PM
Mar 2016

with the entrance? Because I did.

longship

(40,416 posts)
7. That would be a much more interesting event.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 06:08 PM
Mar 2016

But flames from the sky always impresses. Kind of a fire and brimstone type of thing, like the end of Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Cruz's narrative writes itself.



But yup! A big ol' rock.

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