Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Former NSA Director Hayden admitts his GOP hate back fires hits Cruz

***Horse Race LiveWire*** Super Tuesday: Part Deux

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by BREITBART NEWS8 Mar 20161038
Welcome to Breitbart News’s daily live updates of the 2016 horse race. 
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10:36 – Former NSA Director Michael Hayden: Trump is making us unsafe!
10:33 – Erick Erickson: #NeverTrump is becoming #NeverTed which is bad so Rubio needs to drop out.
I helped launch the #NeverTrump movement with my piece written late two Friday’s ago. That night it got over 60,000 hits and the #NeverTrump hashtag became a worldwide trend. Credit for the hashtag goes to my friend Aaron Gardner. I’d used #AgainstTrump, the title of the National Reviewcover, but Aaron suggested I change it.
What I am seeing at this point, however, is that #NeverTrump is guaranteeing Trump’s nomination because #NeverTrump is really #NeverTed. Many of the most vocal supporters of the #NeverTrump movement are Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) supporters and they are handing the nomination to Trump because they cannot face the reality of this election.
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The only way to stop Trump now is to ally with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). But too many of the #NeverTrump brigade are really #NeverTed. They don’t want to look at the math, they don’t want to look at the road ahead, they don’t want Ted Cruz. They’d rather lose with Rubio and stay home in November than ally with Ted Cruz and even have a shot in November.

That is genuinely unfortunate and will either guarantee Trump is the nominee or guarantee the Republican Party is destroyed. Marco Rubio, a great man with a struggling campaign, has a cult of personality every bit as committed as Trump’s. The difference is that Rubio’s cult will give us Trump where Trump’s cult alone never could.

10:29 – Bret Baier: Republicans in DC are saying privately that they’ll vote for Hillary just to keep their power over the party.
Fox News Channel anchor Bret Baier said it’s possible that some Republicans will vote for Hillary Clinton just to stop Donald Trump from taking over the party.
“Listen, there are Republicans in Washington who are privately saying that already,” Baier told TheWrap on Monday. “Maybe some don’t publicly say it, but I think there are some who are that adamant about it who would.”

10:17 – Purported Cruz campaign email monopolizes on CNN’s Rubio report:
10:15 – Romney robocall for Kasich in Michigan–seems he’s all about the brokered convention rather than an anti-Trump candidate winning a majority of delegates:
“Hello, this is Mitt Romney calling, and I’m calling on behalf Kasich for America,” the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee, says at the beginning of the call, audio of which was shared by the Kasich campaign.
“Today you have the opportunity in Michigan to vote for a Republican nominee for president,” Romney continues. “These are critical times that demand a serious, thoughtful commander-in-chief. If we Republicans were to choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future would be greatly diminished — and I’m convinced Donald Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton. Please vote today for a candidate who can defeat HC and who can make us proud.”

10:09 – Kasich throws some shade on Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)’ campaign during a Morning Joe appearance (Bernie has won eight more states that Kasich):
10:04 – Another finding from the Morning Consult poll: Mitt Romney’s speech was anet positive for Trump.
A new Morning Consult poll finds that Mitt Romney’s speech last weekcondemning Donald Trump apparently had very little effect on the GOP front-runner.
Thirty-one percent of GOP voters said they were more likely to vote for Trump, while 20 percent said less likely, and 43 percent said it had no impact either way.

9:57 – Morning Consult national poll: Trump 40, Cruz 23, Rubio 14, Kasich 10. Big gains for Cruz & Kasich:
In the latest survey, taken March 4 through March 6, Cruz picked up 8 percentage points to pull within 17 points of Trump. It’s a 12-point swing from our previous poll after the New Yorker dropped four percentage points.

9:54 – NYT op-ed: “Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Common Core (and Neither Do His Rivals)”
9:46 – Mitt Romney does a GOTV robocall for Rubio:
9:40 – From the “You Have to Go Back” file:
An Egyptian Muslim man who threatened to kill Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will leave the US of his own accord this week, his lawyers say.
23-year-old aviation student Emadeldin Elsayed was arrested in February by US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agents, after posting an article about Trump on Facebook, along with the comment: “I literally don’t mind taking a lifetime sentence in jail for killing this guy, I would actually be doing the whole world a favor.”
One day after posting the status on February 3, Secret Service agents called him in for questioning and searched his property and phone. They then arrested him less than two weeks later.

9:23 – On Rubio’s “half-empty conference room” in Tampa: “No, I’m here to see the trainwreck.”
The man was standing alone, leaning against the wall in the still half-empty conference room that the Marco Rubio campaign had rented for the senator’s “big” Tampa rally. It was only 15 minutes before start time, and people were only trickling in.
“Are you a Rubio supporter?” I asked the 60-something gentleman.
“No. I’m just here to see the train wreck.”


9:10 – WaPo poll: Trump’s unfavorables among Republicans in the fifties and sixties.

“Yeah, I sort of do,” Trump said on “Fox and Friends” when asked if he thought it was wrong to have the contested convention if he’s leading in the delegate count but fails to reach the required 1,237 delegates.
“I think that whoever is leading at the end should sort of get it. That’s the way that democracy works,” Trump said on the program.

 
8:51 – Wapo poll: Trump loses to Cruz and Rubio in one-on-one race.
In hypothetical two-way matchups, Cruz leads Trump by 54-41 percent and Rubio leads Trump by 51-45 percent in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. While the latter lead isn’t statistically significant, both are further signs of the apparent limits to Trump’s popularity within his party. Indeed, among non-Trump supporters, seven in 10 say they’d prefer Cruz, and as many say they’d pick Rubio, in head-to-head contests.

 
8:44 – Wapo poll: National race tightens. Trump 34%, Cruz 25%.
Trump continues to lead in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, with 34 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents who are registered to vote saying they’d like to see him win the nomination. But he trails both Cruz and Rubio one-on-one. And preferences for Cruz, Rubio and John Kasich have grown as others have left the race, while Trump’s support has essentially remained unchanged for months.
In the current multi-candidate race, 25 percent say they’d like to see Cruz win the nomination, with 18 percent for Rubio and 13 percent for Kasich; those are +4, +7 and +11 points compared with January, respectively, to new highs for each. Trump, by contrast, peaked at 38 percent in December.

 
Tonight’s primaries in Michigan and Mississippi — as well as the contests in Idaho (primary) and Hawaii (caucus) — are important for Donald Trump to regain his momentum heading into next week’s winner-take-all primaries and increase his narrow delegate lead over Ted Cruz.
Is Trump losing ground? Or were last weekend’s results due more to the fact that they were closed contests (not open to non-Republicans)? We’ll find out tonight. Both Michigan and Mississippi are open primaries, and Trump SHOULD win them by double digits; Trump is way ahead in the Michigan polls.

 
8:22 – Mickey Kaus sees through the Establishment Matrix
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8:02 – Trump releases Trump University video that purports to show glowing report cards from two of the three students currently starring in attack ads against him.
Using what might be the most dishonest headline of all time, the Huffington Post accuses Trump of threatening students.
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Ted Cruz Is Being Used By GOP Establishment & He Doesn’t Seem To Care…

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Posted on March 7, 2016 by DCWhispers
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Ted Cruz supporters enthusiastically proclaim Mr. Cruz to be a “political outsider”, choosing to ignore Cruz’s nearly twenty-year long affiliation at the highest levels of the Republican Party. Cruz’s own path to the Senate in fact began with a meeting intended to get the blessing of fellow Republican Texan, George W. Bush, a man whose presidential campaign Cruz worked for in 2000.
While Ted Cruz repeats the mantra that he is an establishment outsider, his actual political history is that of a very motivated and determined political insider willing to do and say whatever he deems necessary to further himself.

That is not so much a slight against Mr. Cruz as it is clarification of his actual political DNA.
The term “self-promoter” is hardly new to the halls of Congress, but it is applied by his own colleagues to Ted Cruz possibly more than any other sitting member of that institution. It is that near-constant, willful self-promotion that has turned Republicans who might ideologically support Cruz’s positions, to ultimately turn against him on a personal level.
(Jeff Sessions, anyone?)
Ted Cruz is so widely disliked among his fellow senators not because of his claims of being anti-establishment, but for the simple fact nobody trusts him. They have witnessed time and again Cruz promising them one thing, and then after his office conducts voter response data, do a sudden 180 and declare himself against that which he initially and quietly suggested he would support.
For Ted Cruz, it is said by his many detractors that the only ideology that truly matters, is Ted Cruz.
These same fellow senators watched Cruz quickly cozy up to Donald Trump during the initial months of the GOP primary race. The Texas senator both saw and heard the positive voter response to Trump’s simple, albeit effective, campaign rhetoric and Cruz wanted to make certain he benefited by affiliating himself with the then-nascent Trump phenomena.
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Cruz was determined to ride the Trump wave as a means of yet more self-promotion of the Ted Cruz brand.
And it worked.
As other politicians who took Trump on were quickly dispatched, Cruz remained largely untouched, though behind the scenes, he was said to be informing his staff he would happily attack Mr. Trump when the time was right.
That time has clearly arrived for the senator. Just as he rode on the initial Trump momentum, Cruz has just as quickly jumped onto the Republican Establishment’s anti-Trump craze. It is that seeming absence of personal principles that was the motivating factor in Senator Jeff Sessions, long believed to be a Cruz supporter, to instead come out publicly in support of Donald Trump.
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Senator Sessions had seen Cruz’s work up close during the off again on again immigration reform debate, and was left initially perplexed by Cruz’s ability to say one thing and then do another. Ted Cruz’s greatest concern appeared to be keeping his own name and face in front of the media as much as possible. Sessions is among the Senate’s most conservative members, but he is also willing to work with others whose views do not always mirror his own. His time with Cruz indicated to the Alabama Senator that Ted Cruz was a politician who was quick to realize the anti-establishment sentiment coursing through America after several years of a disastrous Obama presidency, and realized that getting things done in the Senate was not nearly so important to his own self-promotion branding as labeling himself a defiant government obstructionist. 
And so, Cruz was marginalized by politicians who found him to be far too political. Few trusted Ted Cruz to do anything that didn’t first and foremost, do something to further Ted Cruz. It is that Cruz-first prospective that has left a trail of dissatisfied colleagues dating back to Cruz’s time at the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice. (Hardly the resume of a political outsider.) For the nearly the entirety of his adult life, Ted Cruz has collected a government paycheck and used those taxpayer-funded jobs to work his way up the Establishment food chain.
And now, with the unlikely emergence of Donald Trump, Cruz finds himself in the position of having that Establishment grudgingly look to him to be their savior – and he is to this point, happily obliging them. 
Pressure has been mounting within the GOP to have some among the Senate endorse Ted Cruz. This plan has taken longer than originally anticipated, because so few in the Senate were willing to do so because of their deep, personal dislike for the Texas senator. Trump’s Super Tuesday victories have forced these personal dislikes to be pushed aside in favor of what some perceive to be a narrowing window to “save” the Republican Party.
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Ted Cruz has let it be known he is the Establishment’s last best hope to defeat Donald Trump and thus ensure that same establishment continues years into the future. Mr. Cruz enjoys the significant and well-funded pockets of Big Oil, the Legal Lobby, and the Chamber of Commerce, among others, to assist him in this endeavor. 
Ted Cruz didn’t want to destroy the Republican Establishment, he merely hoped to be its newly-anointed ruler.
With that same Establishment now eyeing the mortal threat they perceive to be a Donald Trump presidency, it appears Mr. Cruz might yet be given that opportunity
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Ted Cruz Receives Mitt Romney's Seal Of Approval (Where's the disavowal?)


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3/03/2016 | Brices Crossroads 

Posted on 3/3/2016, 4:12:53 PM by Brices Crossroads
Generally speaking, your enemies' actions will tell you who or what they fear. Mitt Romney's windy tirade, on behalf of the Establishment and against Donald Trump, is no different. The Establishment fears Donald Trump and not because he might lose. The Establishment is very adept at losing, having lost the popular vote in five of the last six Presidential elections. No. They are afraid of Donald Trump because they not only believe he might win; the actually believe he WILL win. His victory would end their gravy train and suspend, as well as expose to scrutiny, the rackets they have been involved in for the last quarter century. From the GOP Establishment's point of view, a Hillary Clinton victory is infinitely preferable to that.

I have listened for months now as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, among others, have repeatedly lumped Ted Cruz together with Donald Trump as the two threats for which, the Establishment has equal and unmitigated disdain. I think many of us knew that Ted Cruz was no threat to the Establishment but was a cog in its machinery. Willard Mitt Romney, the latest Establishment sacrificial lamb, has now revealed that Ted Cruz is, in fact, an Establishment operative in good standing. At his Trump bashing event, Romney said the following:

"If the other candidates can find common ground, I believe we can nominate a person who can win the general election and who will represent the values and policies of conservatism. Given the current delegate selection process, this means that I would vote for Marco Rubio in Florida, for John Kasich in Ohio, and for Ted Cruz or whichever one of the other two contenders has the best chance of beating Mr. Trump in a given state."


By giving Cruz his imprimatur, Romney provided a very valuable service to any voter who is torn between which of the two anti-Establishment candidates, Trump or Cruz, to support. The fact is there is, and always was, only one anti-Establishment candidate, and it was never Ted Cruz. Someone needs to let Rush and Sean know that they can now drop the line that Cruz is anti-Establishment. Unless, of course, Cruz wants to repudiate Romney's endorsement.

Come to think of it, since we are hearing many calls for repudiations of support/endorsements from this person or that group, perhaps it is not too bold to ask: Can we get a disavowal, Ted?
Didn't think so.
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Seeing Trump as Unstoppable, GOP elites now eye a contested convention

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PARK CITY, Utah — The presentation is an 11th-hour rebuttal to the fatalism permeating the Republican establishment: Slide by slide, state by state, it calculates how Donald Trump could be denied the nomination.
Marco Rubio wins Florida. John Kasich wins Ohio. Ted Cruz notches victories in the Midwest and Mountain West. And the results in California and other states are jumbled enough to leave Trump three dozen delegates short of the 1,237 required — forcing a contested convention in Cleveland in July.
The slide show, shared with The Washington Post by two operatives advising one of a handful of anti-Trump super PACs, encapsulates the newly emboldened view of many GOP leaders and donors. They see a clearer path to stopping Trump following his two losses and two narrower-than-expected wins on Saturday.
In private conversations in recent days at a Republican Governors Association retreat here in Park City and at a gathering of conservative policy minds and financiers in Sea Island, Ga., there was an emerging consensus that Trump is vulnerable and that a continued blitz of attacks could puncture the billionaire mogul’s support and leave him limping onto the convention floor.
But the slow-bleed strategy is risky and hinges on Trump losing Florida, Illinois and Ohio on March 15; wins in all three would set him on track to amass the majority of delegates. Even as some party figures see glimmers of hope that Trump could be overtaken, others believe any stop-Trump efforts could prove futile.
This moment of confusion for the Republican Party is made more uncertain by the absence of a clear alternative to Trump. Cruz, Rubio and Kasich each are collecting delegates and vowing to fight through the spring. Among GOP elites, the only agreed-upon mission is to minimize Trump’s share of the delegates to enable an opponent to mount a credible convention challenge.
“It’s one thing if [Trump] goes to the convention and he’s got 48 percent, 49 percent of the delegates,” Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, a Rubio supporter, said in an interview here. “Then it’s a hard thing to see if there’s a convention floor battle. But if he goes to the convention and he’s got 35 or 40 percent, that’s a whole different thing.”
Other governors voiced exasperation not only at the prospect of a Trump nomination, but at the political culture that gave rise to his candidacy.
“We’ve got this Enquirer magazine mentality,” Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said in an interview. “We are subject to this reality TV voyeurism that is taking place. Fast-food headlines, no substance, all flash. The Twitter atmosphere out there, snarky comments on email, Snapchat. Everything is superficial.. . .We’ve got to wake up, America.”
Similar conversations were underway in Sea Island, where the American Enterprise Institute think tank held a policy forum.
“Despite the fact that the story right now is panic in the streets, throw the baby out the window and hope the firefighter catchers her. . .hope springs eternal,” said Arthur C. Brooks, the AEI president. “Nothing is inevitable.”
Trump could get a bounce on Tuesday with the Michigan and Mississippi primaries, which he is expected to win though there are signs of tightening. But next Tuesday is seen as the more decisive moment, with winner-take-all Florida as ground zero — and where polls show Trump’s lead slipping.
The “Stop Trump” movement’s leading super PAC, Our Principles PAC, is adopting what its operatives call a “surround sound” strategy in Florida: More than $3 million in television advertisements, plus direct mail pieces, digital ads, phone banking and emails — all designed to sow doubts about Trump’s character, convictions and fitness for office.
“There is now a silver bullet,” said Brian Baker, a strategist involved with planning the super PAC’s activities. “It’s the cumulative effect of all of these messages.”
Baker also advises the political work of the billionaire Ricketts family, whose matriarch, Marlene, gave $3 million in seed money to Our Principles PAC. Baker and Michael Meyers, president of TargetPoint Consulting, developed the delegate count slide show that was shared with The Post.
Our Principles PAC is also eyeing an aggressive push into Ohio, where Kasich is governor, and has prepared a possible television ad casting Trump as an outsourcer because his branded clothing is made in China and Bangladesh, the group’s advisers said.
Katie Packer, the super PAC’s president, said, “His path to 1,237 goes through Florida, Ohio and Illinois. If he can’t win at least two of those places, it’s going to be very, very tough for him to get to 1,237.”
The super PAC is attracting new donors, including Randy Kendrick, wife of the Arizona Diamondbacks owner, who said she was moved to act by Trump’s provocative rhetoric. “Dictators arose because good people did not stand up and say, ‘It’s wrong to scapegoat minorities,’” Kendrick said.
Some party establishment figures are assisting the super PAC, including former New Hampshire governor John Sununu, who confirmed that he has been calling friends urging them to make donations.
A separate group, American Future Fund, also is trying to take Trump down on the Florida airwaves with $2.75 million in a series of ads there. Some spots feature people who claim they were duped by Trump University while others star veterans speaking out against him or characterize some of Trump’s business associates as shady.
A third group, Club for Growth, is advertising against Trump in Florida and Illinois and is assessing a possible barrage in Ohio as well. David McIntosh, the Club for Growth’s president, said donors recently were hesitant to fund anti-Trump ads, but have come around the past couple of weeks.
“After South Carolina, I got questions — ‘Can he be stopped? You’re running a fool’s errand,’” McIntosh said. “My answer was, ‘It worked [in Iowa], and even more importantly, it has to be done. We can’t just cede this ground.”
Trump retaliated Monday with atough ad depicting Rubio as a fraud and ticking through the greatest hits in the senator’s opposition research file. The narrator calls Rubio, “another corrupt, all-talk, no-action politician.”
For Cruz and his allies, the intensity of the anti-Trump ad campaign is welcome relief. Their main target, at least in Florida, is Rubio, hoping that a home-state loss would force him to drop out.
“There is so much anti-Trump messaging out there, it’s flooded,” said Kellyanne Conway, president of Keep the Promise I, a pro-Cruz super PAC. “What could we say that isn’t out there?”
Some Republican donors are not on board with trashing Trump, however.
“There’s a group that thinks, look, Trump is likely to be inevitable here and let’s not tarnish him,” said Fred Malek, the RGA’s finance chairman.
Strategist Liz Mair said she has found it difficult to convince many donors to pony up to Make America Awesome, her anti-Trump super PAC.
“Republican donors are acting like the parents of teenage alcoholics,” Mair said. “They see all the signs of problems, but they don’t really want to admit and address the problem because that would entail them acknowledging that they didn’t do the right things along the way.”
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter, who met with many donors in Park City over the weekend, said he heard “a lot of concern” about the GOP’s fracturing.
“There’s people that always say, ‘You’ve got to go negative,’ and I really struggle with that,” Otter said in an interview. “To, in a gentlemanly way or a lady-like way, point out the other person’s record is one thing. But to get into some kind of a name-calling deal I don’t think is very beneficial.”
But Haslam, the Tennessee governor, reiterated the urgency of slowing Trump now before he accumulates too many delegates. Otherwise, party elites risk the appearance of trying to steal the nomination from him at the convention.
“That is probably the most dangerous situation for the Republican Party,” Haslam said. “If he gets there with not a majority but close to a majority of the [delegates] and doesn’t get the nomination, that’ll be very difficult. He could say, ‘I’m going to ask all of my folks to sit this one out to show them how big we are.’ Who knows?”
Matea Gold in Washington contributed to this report.
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Monday, March 7, 2016

Some Rubio advisers say get out before Florida

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Washington (CNN)A battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign about whether he should even remain in the Republican presidential race ahead of his home state primary on March 15, sources say.
Rubio himself is "bullish" on his odds of winning the critical primary, despite some advisers who are less hopeful and believe a loss there would damage him politically in both the short- and long-term.
Publicly, the campaign is maintaining they are still a contender in this race, touting a Sunday win in Puerto Rico's primary that delivered Rubio 23 delegates. But privately, the campaign is having a debate about whether he should remain in the mix -- even for his home state of Florida's primary.
"He doesn't want to get killed in his home state," one source familiar with the discussions said, noting "a poor showing would be a risk and hurt his political future."
Alex Conant, Rubio's communication director, said the report of such an internal debate is "100% false."
"That is fiction," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room."
"I was sitting in a senior staff meeting planning out next week's schedule when I saw this report suddenly air and I came racing across town to correct it," he added.
Conant pointed to the fact that Rubio appears to be closing in on GOP front-runner Donald Trump's lead in Florida.
A Monmouth poll released Monday shows Rubio behind Trump, 38% to 30%. A Quinnipiac poll released two weeks ago put Rubio behind Trump by a wider margin: 44% to 28%.
Most of the senator's advisers agree he does not have a path to the nomination and some are advising him to get out ahead of the March 15 primary.
Polls show Rubio trailing GOP front-runner Donald Trump in Florida. A Monmouth poll released Monday shows Rubio behind Trump, 38% to 30%. A Quinnipiac poll released two weeks ago put Rubio behind Trump by a wider margin: 44% to 28%.
Most of his advisers agree he does not have a path to the nomination and some are advising him to get out ahead of the March 15 primary.
Sources within the campaign also say the pressure will only continue to mount following an expected disappointing showing Tuesday, when voters in Michigan, Mississippi, Hawaii and Idaho make their picks in the GOP primary.
"Not going to have a great day is an understatement," one campaign source said.
Weighing the costs
There are two lines of thought within the campaign: getting out before Florida, and hanging in there.
On the one hand, some advisers are warning that if Rubio does poorly in his home state, it could not only hurt his presidential campaign but also his future politically, including a potential gubernatorial run in 2018 or chance to be on the ticket as a vice presidential candidate.
"Cruz won his home state. If Rubio can't win his, that's a problem," one prominent supporter said.
But others within the campaign are urging Rubio to stay in the race, predicting a better-than-expected finish in Florida.
Rubio's victory for his Senate seat against the governor makes him optimistic he can come from behind, said one source close to the campaign. The senator also believes his experience in the state translates to a superior ground game and infrastructure than that of his competitors.
The latter line of thinking seems to be winning, for the moment. But a particularly awful Tuesday could change the rationale, a source warned.
The endorsement game
One potential x-factor in the Florida contest is the looming possibility of an endorsement from once-rival Jeb Bush. But Rubio and Bush, the former Florida governor, have spoken three times since Bush dropped out of the 2016 last month and the Rubio campaign is not expecting an endorsement.
Rubio raised the possibility in the latter two conversations, sources said, but felt Bush was "vague about his interest" and Rubio came away under the impression that Bush would not endorse.
The fellow Floridian is a long-time friend and mentor of Rubio's, but they clashed as opponents during the GOP primary. Many of Bush's backers endorsed Rubio after the former governor departed the race, and others who had stayed out of it put their support behind Rubio.
But not all of Bush's supporters moved over, and some talk of bad blood has hung over the relationship between the two campaigns.
Romney role
Other political insiders are closely watching to see what former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney decides to do. The 2012 GOP nominee delivered a speech last week excoriating Trump -- but he did not endorse any of the remaining Trump rivals.
Romney is going to continue with that anti-Trump campaign, a source close to the former governor said, adding that while he is not running, he is open to the possibility -- however remote -- of stepping into a brokered convention as a consensus pick.
Sources familiar say that Romney isn't working with any of the non-Trump campaigns, but part of his resistance to throwing his support behind one is to leave his own options open.
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Clinton camp mgt. MOOK SPOOKED: ‘We lost 3 of this weekend’s 4 contests’

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It’s not going to be an easy path to the nomination for Hillary Clinton as many predicted and expected.
Campaign manager Robby Mook issued another panicked email to supporters Monday, reminding them Hillary came out the loser after this past weekend’s primary votes.
In the email, titled, “We lost 3 of 4,” he writes:
After another weekend of contests, Donald Trump has two more wins, and he’s added to his already formidable lead in the delegate count.
Hillary is the only candidate who can take Trump down, but this primary isn’t over yet. We’re still losing the money race — Bernie’s campaign outraised us by $12 million in February — and even though we picked up delegates, we lost 3 of this weekend’s 4 contests.
We cannot afford to give this nomination away — there’s simply too much at stake.
“We have the momentum. We have a path toward victory,” Bernie Sanders said in a statement after winning in Kansas and Nebraska. “Our campaign is just getting started and we are going all the way to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.”
Sanders won big in Maine.
“Four minutes after caucuses closed, the Associated Press called the race for Sanders Sunday. As of midnight, the self-identified democratic socialist led with 64 percent over the former secretary of state’s 36 percent support, with 91 percent of precincts reporting,” Patch.com reports.
Clinton won Louisiana on Saturday.
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Mitt Romney won’t rule out accepting GOP nomination at contested convention

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By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times
Sunday, March 6, 2016


Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, refused Sunday to rule out becoming the nominee again this year at a brokered convention, though he insisted he couldn’t imagine that happening.
“I don’t think anyone in our party should say, ‘Oh no, even if the people of the party wanted me to be president, I would say no to it.’ No one is going to say that,” Mr. Romney said on NBC’s “Meet the Press
Speculation abounded that Mr. Romney was setting himself up for a surprise nomination last week when he unleashed a brutal denouncement of front-runner Donald Trump, urging voters to support anyone but the billionaire real estate mogul in upcoming primaries to force a contested convention this summer in Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. Romney lambasted Mr. Trump as “a fraud, a phony” in a speech Thursday. “He gets a free ride to the White House, and all we get is a lousy hat.”
On the Sunday talk show, Mr. Romney said he isn’t running and plans to endorse one of Mr. Trump’s three rivals — either Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Ohio Gov. John Kasich or Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
“I can tell you this: I’m not a candidate. I’m not going to be a candidate. I am going to be endorsing one of the people who is running for president,” he said. “One of the four is going to be the Republican Party nominee. Three of the four are people I would endorse. But I’m not running and I’m not going to be running
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