Marco Rubio came out the winner in Scott Walker’s departure from the presidential race.
On Monday several of Walker’s former campaign workers signed on with Rubio. According to POLITICO, Cliff Hurst who was Walker’s state co-chair signed on with Rubio for the same position and several other top Walker grassroots activists and campaign staffers announced they are joining Rubio’s campaign.Two of Walker’s top donors have chose to support Rubio now as well.
On the heels of a solid debate performance Rubio is currently on a high.
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Rubio’s campaign manager Terry Sullivan said:
Rubio is also ahead of his mentor, Jeb Bush in the latest Florida poll. Trump still leads the pack with 32 percent but Rubio follows at 19 percent and Bush has 11 percent. The Florida Atlantic University poll was published Tuesday night.We need everybody not named Marco to fizzle. That is the plan. We need everybody to slowly fizzle and we think they will.
Nationally Bush is behind Rubio as well. According to CNN’s most recent poll Bush has at 9 percent and Rubio has 11 percent.
A lot of political insiders are now putting their support behind Rubio.
Drew Johnson, a longtime South Carolina Republican activist and GOP convention delegate said:
Not everyone thinks Rubio is going to do well though. Dan Tripp who headed Walker’s South Carolina efforts says he is not seeing the momentum.When I started seeing the polls numbers [Walker] was getting, it started to fell like it was going to be hard for him to push through and mount a comeback. I felt I could best serve my overall cause, putting a Republican in the White House, by putting my support behind Rubio. Looking forward, I saw and continue to see Rubio as the solution.
I’m not seeing that on the ground, no. They’ve got a reasonably decent team, but I’m not seeing anything peaking in South Carolina.
I’m not bad-mouthing Rubio, but . . . he’s not the golden boy in South Carolina they’re trying to spin. He doesn’t have a grass-roots organization here; he’s going to be fighting alongside Trump, Cruz and everybody else. I definitely don’t see this as a breakout moment for Rubio.