Marco Rubio Snags South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott’s Endorsement After Iowa Caucus

“U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey endorsed his colleague Marco Rubio for president Wednesday, calling him a leader in the fight to keep America safe from the many threats the nation faces from around the world”.

Susan Duprey, who served as chief of staff to Ann Romney, Mitt Romney’s wife, in 2011 and 2012, announced her support for the Florida senator on Tuesday night.

Scott will endorse the Florida senator on Tuesday morning, said a source with direct knowledge of the endorsement. Rick Crawford and Steve Womack along with Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin.

Rubio’s running as the future of the party, on a message of opportunity. “I think he’s been called out for that repeatedly and I think people see it for what it is”. Rubio, a member of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” who crafted a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2013, has been battered by GOP rivals as pro-“amnesty” for undocumented immigrants. He came to Washington as one of the original tea party insurgents, then morphed into an establishment conservative – and now, in the heat of the campaign, he’s trying to reverse his evolution.

Rubio is framing himself as a candidate uniquely qualified to both unite Republican voters, and reach out to lower-income and minority communities that have delivered reliably Democratic votes in recent decades. “The other gravitational pull is going to be ideological”.

But in order to make it to the Promised Land, the Establishment still needs Rubio to win – or at least place a strong second – in New Hampshire.

Bass said he can’t predict what will happen at today’s Trump rally, set for 5 p.m.in Barton Coliseum in Little Rock.

Sanders says he can’t believe that people stood outside in the cold for about two hours waiting for him to arrive. “Midweek activities are harder to draw crowds to, but again, he’s shown over the past year a capacity to draw crowds of a magnitude that are most unusual”.

New Hampshire has historically favored more moderate candidates than Iowa, and more than 40 percent of the state’s voters are not registered in any political party, giving them the power to choose which party’s’ primary to vote in. Marco Rubio’s solid third-place finish in Iowa is the moment the locusts cleared, the boils healed, the frogs jumped away, and the waters parted.