Members of the conservative intelligentsia are all pulling their hair out over Donald Trump. For the entire week, they lectured us on the need to save the Republic and stop Donald Trump from destroying it. They told us that whoever comes in third place tonight must drop out so the second place winner can have a shot at consolidating support to beat Trump. It is clear that anyone who held that view coming into tonight’s election desiring to retain a shred of intellectual honesty must call on Rubio to drop out.
First, let’s say off the bat that Trump was still the clear winner tonight – both in states and delegates. No matter what happens he will be tough to beat. Name ID matters and Trump has gotten an incalculable degree of media coverage over the past year.
However, there are signs of vulnerability. In almost every state, according to exit polls, the late deciders broke against Trump. In Oklahoma, a closed primary state where Democrats can’t vote and where Cruz actually spent some time and money getting his message out, Trump was beaten pretty uniformly across the state. If Trump continues to deflate and someone goes up against him mano-a-mano, the Donald can at least be challenged for his plurality in the delegate lead going into the convention.
What is also clear is that, while it will be hard for anyone to beat Trump, there is zero chance of him being beaten with Rubio and Cruz (and Carson) splitting the opposition. Of the two, who should be the person tasked with taking down Trump?
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Those who called for 3rd place winner to drop out assuming it would be Cruz now have to own up to it https://t.co/vAdfPd5R8a
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) March 2, 2016
All I'm asking Rubio to do is keep his word and unite the Republican Party as he said he would. https://t.co/e68L8IICfQ
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) March 2, 2016
I fear Rubio will wait too long to endorse Cruz. That will be a pity and we will be stuck with orange devil, Trump.
Now that he’s won a state, he’ll not be likely to. Now he can say “I’m not a loser!” We all know better, but it will take something else to get him to drop out. After all, he’s not up for Senate reelection now and he has no job. I think he’s hoping that after March 15th, it’ll be Cruz that needs to be his VP. I hope I’m wrong because they need to unite BEFORE then.
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
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