Why Rubio Lost

With Marco Rubio dropping out tonight, you’re going to hear a lot of theorizing about why he lost. It was the Gang of Eight. It was Trump. It was the anger. It was the out-of-touch elites. None of this is correct.

For a long time Marco Rubio was the odds-on favorite to be the Republican nominee. Why? He didn’t raise the most money. He was never higher than third in the RealClear poll average. He did not have any obvious base of electoral support or geographic safe house. Even his home base of Florida was going to be a dog fight with Jeb Bush. The only thing Rubio had going for him was his innate political skill.