Ingraham: Maybe Rubio Needs To Do a Mea Culpa Given Trump’s Success with Voters

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KILMEADE: “Yesterday, it seems like a lot of the establishment is lining up behind Rubio which could hurt him. Bob Dole, Asa Hutchinson —“
INGRAHAM: “Shocking.”
KILMEADE: “So this feels like the days before New Hampshire prior to Rubio’s bad debate.”
INGRAHAM: “Yeah. I mean, here’s what people are missing in this race. You can have all of the endorsements you want from all of the elected officials you want, you can have the bushes, you can have Tim Scott, you can have Nikki Haley. But if you’re lined up with the policies that have driven the middle class into a hole over the last 15 years, globalist economic policies, really horrible, unenforceable trade deals, foreign workers coming in to take American jobs and military — a policy that a lot of people think has gone awry, you can have all the endorsements you want, but you won’t win the contest, because the American middle class are rising up against the old order and the dinosaurs in the GOP. So the dinosaurs come lumbering toward Rubio and look, Rubio seems like a nice guy but he’s a younger Cuban version of Jeb Bush so why am I going to Rubio?”
KOOIMAN: “If you’re a Rubio or Cruz and trying to blunt the momentum of Trump, why don’t you try to winnow the field by promising john Kasich the VP spot and take the buckeye state.”
INGRAHAM: “Maybe.”
KOOIMAN: “There’s a new Quinnipiac poll out that shows Kasich doesn’t take his own state, Donald Trump does. 31 percent Trump, 26 percent for Kasich.”
INGRAHAM: “I think Trump can take Ohio for one reason — trade. You saw Ron Portman move away from the transpacific partnership a couple of weeks ago. You hear the Republican establishment not wanting to talk about this deal at all, they’re say, let’s wait. We won’t vote on it this year. I think the more cautious folks on trade like Jeff Sessions, Trump to some extent are saying let’s debate this now. Let’s let the American people see what’s in this deal. See who’s — whose fingerprints are over this deal and who gets a raw deal in the TPP. So this is a big, big issue.”
DOOCY: “Sure. Looking forward, you know, if you want to believe the polls of the next 14 or 15 polls sounds like Donald Trump is leading in about ten of them. And historically, Laura, you know, if he were the mainstream establishment candidate, people in the establishment would be saying, okay, let’s coalesce around the front-runner.”
INGRAHAM: “Now they want to kill the front-runner off. Now we have more excitement than we have seen in politics in certainly I can think of since maybe bush 2000 or Reagan 1980. There’s so much out there and most with Trump. I’m thinking what’s his secret sauce? maybe it’s time to re-examine some of the issues and do a mea culpa on the issues. If you’re Marco Rubio you say, you know, I’m seeing the crowds. I’m hearing your comments about this. We’re not doing this immigration reform. We’ll enforce the laws for five or six years and then deal with the people who are here in a humane, proper fashion. But we’re not going to even walk toward the chamber of commerce on this issue. Marco Rubio has the cards here to play with the big donors. If I were he, I would say, look, we’re doing — we have a new path forward. Trump is on to something. I’m going to do it better than Trump. I’m going the show the voters I can learn on these issues.”
KILMEADE: “But you can’t  hijack —“
INGRAHAM: “Marco Rubio could do that.”
KILMEADE: “But can’t hijack like Hillary did to Bernie. You need Rubio in your Trump axiom axioms.”
INGRAHAM: “Yeah. But I think that shows a lot for Rubio to say, I don’t agree with Trump on a lot of things but he tapped a vein on globalization and immigration. I’m listening to the people. Remember Romney didn’t do that on Romney care. He dug his heels in. On Romney care, that hurt him in the end. I think Rubio could go to the donors and say, look, we’ll lose this thing unless we start compromising with the voters and then you have an interesting face-off perhaps between Rubio and Trump. Otherwise, I think Trump carries all the momentum in and meanwhile the GOP says how can we kill off the guy that’s the front-runner? I don’t see how it works out well for the GOP.”
DOOCY: “So many people out there don’t trust the establishment. Thank you, Laura. See you next week.”