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发帖数: 61690 | 1 Marco Rubio’s path to the Republican nomination short of a contested
convention has narrowed to nearly nothing as his campaign and allies reboot
their strategy to prepare for months of guerilla warfare to deny Donald
Trump a clean, pre-convention victory.
The math for Rubio is daunting. After getting thoroughly routed on Super
Tuesday, Rubio is in so deep a delegate hole that he would now need to win
roughly two-thirds of all the remaining delegates to guarantee his
nomination ahead of Cleveland, according to a POLITICO analysis.
That is an enormously difficult, if not impossible, climb for a candidate
who has so far won only a single state, Minnesota, and especially one who is
not predicting victory in any of the next dozen states and territories that
cast ballots, until his home state of Florida votes on March 15.
“It's fair to say that Rubio’s path to 1,237 is shot,” Dave Wasserman, an
analyst with the Cook Political Report who closely tracks the delegate race
, said of the threshold to secure the nomination.
“There’s virtually no chance for Marco Rubio to get to a majority prior to
the convention,” said John Yob, who served as a top delegate strategist
for Rick Santorum in 2012 and John McCain in 2008.
Even inside the Rubio orbit, there has been an acknowledgement that as long
as Ted Cruz (and John Kasich) stay in the race, they have virtually zero
mathematical chance of securing the nomination. Asked directly by Fox’s
Megyn Kelly on Wednesday night if it was now “mathematically impossible”
for him to be the nominee, Rubio dodged.
“I think you can make that argument for virtually everyone in this race at
this point,” Rubio said, save Trump.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/marco-rubio-2016-path-220190#ixzz41s6o21Q7 |
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