Posted on 02/21/2016 11:40:48 AM PST by LoneCrusader
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In a major development in the Republican presidential race, 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney will endorse Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for president, The Huffington Post has learned from two Republican sources. Details of Romney's endorsement were still being worked out as of Sunday morning. The sources said that the former Massachusetts governor had been eager to provide his backing to Rubio for days but had hesitated, due to his respect for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), who suspended his campaign on Saturday night following his dismal fourth-place showing in the South Carolina primary. Romney spent the day in Utah on Saturday and could potentially be in position to bestow his blessing upon Rubio before Tuesday's Nevada Republican caucuses--a contest that Romney won easily in both 2008 and 2012. Romney’s backing will provide Rubio with the highest-profile endorsement of the 2016 race and is the clearest signal yet that the party’s establishment is ready to coalesce around the Florida senator as its last best chance to defeat GOP front-runner Donald Trump. Romney has long held Rubio in high regard. The first-term senator made the vice-presidential short list for Romney's 2012 run and -- along with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie -- spent the night at Romney’s New Hampshire vacation home over Fourth of July weekend last year. On the heels of Trump’s resounding victory in Saturday’s South Carolina primary, and with the pivotal March 1 Super Tuesday contests looming, the clock is ticking ever faster for anyone to stop the front-runner on what now looks to be a clear path to the Republican nomination. With Bush’s candidacy over and Ohio Gov. John Kasich having uncertain longterm prospects, Romney’s endorsement of Rubio could scarcely come at a more opportune time for the Florida senator.
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do we really care what a former candidate thinks?
Just wondering, have any of you been waiting with bated breath, waiting to see who Mitt Romney endorses, to help you make up your own mind????
This news makes me smile. Target confirmed.
Guessing is news?
Yawn..
STEPHANOPOULOS: One report in the "Huffington Post" this morning, that Mitt Romney may be set to endorse you, is that true?Have you spoken to him?
Do you expect it?
RUBIO: I've spoken to Governor Romney. He is not set to endorse me and if he were, we wouldn't be announcing it on the "Huffington Post." So but he's not scheduled to endorse me. I would love to have his endorsement but there's nothing forthcoming today and -- or in the days to come as far as I know.
Saw this coming. They did wait until Bush was out of the way.
Now it’s full steam ahead to get Amnesty Rubio in.
I still can’t make a decision until McCain endorses lol...
It will the “Kiss of Death” for Rubio.
This will peobably be the beginning of the end for the Roboto campaign.
Another loser. Birds of a feather.
Does the endorsement of milquetoast, loser Romney actually help Rubio? I’m not so sure I’d want this endorsement. Cruz will keep pointing out that if we yet again nominate an establishment deal maker, we will again lose.
Who gives a crap what that pathetic loser thinks? He couldn’t beat the worst president in the history of the republic. Go away Mitt, you’re stinking up the place...
Thanks for helping Mittens! Some of us were afraid you might pick Cruz or Trump.
Good. That’ll end Rubio.
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I guess he will not be Trump's running mate as Ann Coulter hoped.
Bingo, establishment candidate
Good Willard just proves how DC Marco is
Corporatist endorses corporatist. Who could have ever guessed.
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