Marco Rubio Just Made a Desperate Move, and John Kasich Punked Him
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It’s no secret that Marco Rubio needs to win the Florida primary on Tuesday in order to be even remotely viable as a presidential candidate, and it’s no secret that barring a Bernie-esque reversal of the current polls, he’s going to lose. And when he loses, he’s going to drop out of the race that very night.
So today, in a last-ditch attempt to eke out a narrow win in his home state, he appealed to John Kasich’s supporters.
“If you are a Republican primary voter in Ohio and you want to defeat Donald Trump, your best chance in Ohio is John Kasich,” Alex Conant, a Rubio spokesperson, told CNN. As you might guess, he followed this up by asking Kasich supporters in Florida to vote for Rubio.
In theory, it’s a nice tit-for-tat deal that could undermine Trump and keep both candidates in the race. The problem is two-fold:
1. John Kasich is actually leading Trump in Ohio in some polls (and is very close in the rest), so he’s in a position of power, whereas Rubio is operating from weakness.