Brzezinski: People Feint Shaking Hands with Trump; They’re Not Feinting to Meet Other Candidates

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
GEIST: "If we’re being honest I don’t think anyone of this group would be surprised if we woke up tomorrow and there were a list of four or five people who came in second place, including Marco Rubio. If you think about Marco Rubio, if he comes through what he’s been through the last three days or so being battered by the media because of his debate performance and say I finished second in spite of that because it’s about you the voters and not what the media says about my debate performance it would be huge for him."
SCARBOROUGH: "Second place would be huge for him."
BRZEZINSKI: "I was talking to Keith last night, the guy who goes around with trump. He said you have to see the rope line. They have people who faint in the rope line to shake hands with Donald Trump. I don’t think they’re fainting to meet the other candidates."
SCARBOROUGH: "Rock show. I’ve some people faint in Sanders’ rallies."
HEILEMANN: "But there’s — there’s — there’s an element of excitement that’s a little different with Donald Trump’s events that’s not what you see in even the really effective events that are more old-school town hall events John Kasich or Jeb Bush. It’s totally conceivable to me that a second place finisher will get into the 20s. That will matter if trump is around 30 and there is one candidate who is up in the 20s and is in a clear second place. That really matters. There is a consensus that bush and Kasich are on the move. The two outstanding questions is how much has Marco Rubio fallen, if at all. We don’t know. And how much has Chris Christie risen on the basis of his performance on Saturday night. We don’t know that either. Those are the big outstanding variables in terms of where boat share goes by the end of tonight. Tein, was does Donald Trump have to do tonight? What if he’s 24%, 25%, even if he wins and underperforms again? Is that a problem?"