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 nightas 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.
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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?
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villager
(26,001 posts)In other words, do the Repubbies have any actual "Plan B" at all, at this point?
brooklynite
(94,571 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)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.
longship
(40,416 posts)That would give Cruz an excuse to state that Gawd is for him. No doubt.
Right?
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)with the entrance? Because I did.
longship
(40,416 posts)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.