Who is the most responsible for Rubio's demise?

[HAnnA MArin County]

I voted Rubio himself because he was really naive and bought into the establishment fairy tale and mainstream media hype that he was somehow going to be the savior of the Republican Party simply because he was young and Hispanic/Latino. Republicans need to realize that identity politics doesn't work with their base of angry old white people and conservative-leaning independents. Have they not learned from their ginormous mistake of plucking Sarah Palin and putting her on the ticket in hopes of winning the female vote?

Trump was the final nail in the coffin, though. He bluffed Little Marco with all the juvenile insults and Rubio took the bait and failed miserably. He wasn't, and still isn't, ready for primetime. As a bystander, I must say I loved seeing Trump eviscerate all of the other Republican candidates.

Rubio should have seen the writing on the wall after his series of losses and probably should have exited the race before his humiliating defeat in his home state. Now, he somehow thinks he can go back to his old job as a U.S. Senator and be voted in by the same people who gave him their middle finger days ago.

[ReaganLimbaugh]

Chuck Schumer and his gang.

[Meclazine for Israel]

When he did he have success?

[Likely Voter]

sometime over the summer some guy sat down in Rubio's office and convinced him he could run a new kind of modern campaign where he didn't do much of a ground game and  (unlike every GOP nominee from the era when primaries became a thing) he didn't have to try to win either IA or NH. This guy convinced Rubio he was a new kind of candidate that could change all the rules. He came up with the "3, 2, 1" plan.


...that guy.