After a disappointing fourth-place showing in South Carolina’s primary, tonight Jeb Bush honorably bowed out from the presidential race, leaving room for Sen. Marco Rubio, a candidate who is more electable in the general election than fellow frontrunners Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz. Gov. John Kasich (fifth place) and Ben Carson (sixth place) should follow Bush’s lead to ensure that Trump doesn’t derail conservatives in November. Trump has fundamental problems with appealing to female and Latino voters, key blocs that will decide the race in November.Politics blends intellect and emotion, and Trump’s appeal to primal instinct through his flamboyant rhetoric has created a base of many supporters who back him at a gut rather than policy level. Yet Trump’s appeal has a ceiling–he can’t seem to break beyond roughly a third of Republicans. And exit polling data show he is the static candidate compared to Rubio–CNN reported this evening that people who decided late in the game broke for Rubio (30 percent) and Cruz (27 percent) instead of Trump (16 percent).Trump won tonight because the GOP field remains too crowded. But as the field continues to winnow, his narrow-minded and divisive campaign will collapse. Data from the voting reform group FairVote showed that if…
See original post: Time For Kasich and Carson to Bow Out For Rubio After South Carolina