Bob Dole Finally Came Out and Endorsed a Presidential Candidate

Says who? Say the voters.

Kasich, endorsed by The New York Times and given a boost by his No. 2 finish to Trump in New Hampshire, got the backing on Sunday of Stanley Druckenmillion, a hedge fund billionaire. “I think he would bring – and he wants to grow the party as opposed to Cruz who – I don’t know what he wants to grow”. Some worry about a similar dynamic if hardline conservative Sen. Ted Cruz said he liked the thought of Clinton behind bars.

The Florida senator is claiming momentum after edging out Cruz for second place Saturday in the SC primary. Trump “has no policy”.

But there are reasons to believe that the entrance poll findings reflect a race among Latinos that is actually tighter than was broadly expected before this first contest featuring a substantial minority population and the key is age.

Another super-PAC donor who didn’t wait for Bush to drop out was Brian Ballard, a Florida lobbyist who switched to Rubio, saying that the party needs to rally behind a candidate who can beat Trump. “If he’s the Republican nominee, we’ll lose”. Read what The Washington Post had to say. “(Trump’s) comments about women, his comments about minorities, about Latinos – for me that’s not a guy I would support”.

“The people of Iowa and New Hampshire and SC have spoken”, Bush said Saturday, “and so tonight I am suspending my campaign”.

Trump made the case that he could be the consensus candidate.

In most other states, there haven’t been polls done in months or even years.

Trump was in Georgia exulting over his latest victory, Cruz headed for Nevada, and Rubio embarked on a Tennessee-Arkansas-Nevada trifecta.

In any event, the winnowing of the Republican field continues with the opposite of urgency.

GOP presidential hopeful Sen. “Members like Bob Dold and other moderates who disagree the most with people like Ted Cruz are the most vulnerable”. “I’ve never seen anything like this”. “I worry about the rhetoric that is coming out from the party”.

Dold’s 10th district – which begins in the affluent suburbs just north of Chicago and stretches North to the working-class towns that hug the Wisconsin border – could not be more competitive. “They are joining as we speak”. That leaves him tacking left on social issues and remaining to the center-right on fiscal issues in an election that may pit him against Schneider for the third time. By March 15, about 60 percent of Republican delegates will have been chosen. Just his nomination by one of the nation’s major parties would be an global embarrassment.

Indeed, voters are hardly beholden to the prognostications of political experts.

The preferences of Latino voters as reported in exit and entrance polling has been a source of controversy for more than a decade, since a 2004 national exit poll finding estimated that Republican President George W. Bush captured 44% of the Latino vote in his re-election bid. They also moved the border just enough so that Dold no longer lived inside the district. Cruz’s boosters in Nevada are still expressing confidence they can come out on top with a get-out-the-vote operation that will be criticial in a caucus setting that has a modern reputation for low turnout.

And some GOP strategists argue that Democrats won’t turn out in 2016 in the same large numbers as they did for Obama. Gravis called 53 percent for Hillary Clinton and 47 percent for Bernie Sanders – both of which were nearly dead-on.