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Today’s
message from the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund PAC opened with its
endorsement of Ted Cruz, followed by this:
Rubio routs Trump in Thursday’s
debate.
After last month’s weak
(devastating, really) debate performance in New Hampshire, Florida Sen. Marco
Rubio desperately needed a win at this week’s debate. And on Thursday, he certainly
got the win his campaign wanted.
Sen. Rubio’s winning strategy
centered heavily on attacking Donald Trump’s record. For many of the past
debates, Trump’s opponents have given him a pass, choosing instead to attack
one another – they figured (wrongly, it turns out) that rather than challenging
Trump directly, the better strategy was to attempt to knock each other out in
hopes of being the Last Man Standing against Trump (at which point they believe
the 65-70% of the anti-Trump voters in the GOP would rally to their cause). But
with Trump’s latest victory in Nevada, the other candidates are quickly
realizing the short-sightedness of that strategy. And Sen. Rubio, for one,
decided it was time for Trump to account for his record on everything from
founding a “fake university” that defrauded people, to his history of hiring
undocumented immigrants.
During the debate, Trump – who
long ago became accustomed to being unchallenged in the debates – seemed unable
to regain his footing after several of Sen. Rubio’s zingers. . . .
But here are some key polls, h/t
Conservative Treehouse:
The Blaze (click on the list of names to see results)
TimeDotCom (click on the list of names to see results)
All these polls showed Trump
the winner. The Blaze poll is
especially telling, since everyone knows that Glenn Beck has endorsed Cruz and
loathes Trump. The Telegraph didn’t
much like the poll results, either. But regardless of where you stand on the
candidates, it’s unfortunate that Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund claims that
Marco Rubio the winner of the debate, that he trounced Trump, when the above polls show otherwise.
Where was at least a qualifier?
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