Who Will ACTUALLY be the Nominee?

[DS0816]

No Donald Trump + Still including Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, and Mike Huckabee = Unworthy Poll.


It's too bad.

This could have been a very good poll.

[SWE]

Whoever is the last non-Bush candidate left standing. Probably Rubio.

[Kingpoleon]

My fundamental issue with having John Kasich as the GOP nominee for President is the guy has been bad, and I mean really bad, about picking diverse people to be in his cabinet. People flipped out when Mitt Romney made his "binders full of women" remark in the 2012 presidential debates. Huntsman never even looked at binders filled with anyone except middle aged white males. I don't trust him to reach out to minority voters, he has a worse record than Romney on this.

You mean he reached out to minority voters without picking token minorities for his Cabinet, Bush-style? I know he reached more minorities than Bush, including twenty-six percent of the black vote.

[tallguy23]

The safe bet is Bush (name recognition, endorsements, money, etc.). But I still have a gut feeling it'll be Rubio. I see him as a GOP Obama who could redefine the party.

Also, if I were a GOP official, I wouldn't want Bush to be the nominee. If he won, it wouldn't be good for the party.

Do you really want the last three presidents from your party to be from the same family? An entire generation of Americans wouldn't remember a GOP president who wasn't a Bush.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Bush, let's be honest

A significant number of Republicans don't believe Jeb Bush can win.  Whether he can or not is another question, but when your electability is a question AND you're not the ideological dreamboat candidate for a significant hunk of your party, you've got a problem, even if it's not insurmountable.

Donald Trump WON the debate; this is clear.  He won because (A) he boosted his poll numbers a bit, (B) he didn't get hurt by any of his over-the-top antics, and (C) Jeb Bush didn't appear to be the "grownup in the room" versus Trump.  Bush had a very lackluster performance, and, in retrospect, it was Jeb Bush, more than anyone else, that people were looking to in order to put Trump in some kind of check.  In the end, Jeb appeared (surprisingly) flustered at times and it was Kasich that "handled" Trump the best, but in doing so, acknowledged the legitimate issue concerns of Trump supporters.  In a way, the Establishment GOP NEEDED Jeb to step up and be the hero, and it just didn't happen.

[DavidB.]

Rubio or Bush.

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Bush IMO

[Kingpoleon]

1. Marco Rubio
2. John Kasich
3. Jeb Bush
4. Scott Walker
5. Donald Trump

[MATTROSE94]

The Republican nominee will turn out to be either Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker or Donald Trump.