Even Jim Gilmore dropped out. Since New Hampshire, the GOP field has also shed Carly Fiorina and Chris Christie too. There are six candidates left.
Honestly, only five of them probably have a chance of winning the nomination that is statistically higher than 0 percent. Ben Carson, sixth of six, doesn’t have the money, the wits, the strategy, or personality to win. It’s not a stretch to say Carson has lower odds of winning the nomination than some non-candidates like Mitt Romney or Scott Walker (who could become the nominee through some bizarre twist of a brokered convention).
If Carson is the fourth tier, and consistent front-runner Donald Trump is the first tier, then the second tier is Rubio and Cruz, while Bush and Kasich are the third tier.
Here are our first power rankings of the post-Gilmore era.
Timothy P. Carney, the Washington Examiner’s senior political columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]. His column appears Tuesday and Thursday nights on washingtonexaminer.com.
