Steve Schmidt: Marco ‘Was Gutted’ in the Debate by Christie and ‘Slowly Bled Out’

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
SCHMIDT: "His growth curve was so fast up to the right that he could have been in first place until he — most knockouts in politics and debates happen on the counter-punch. Very, very rarely do you see someone go all out in an assault and offensively knock someone out. That’s what happened. And so Marco Rubio in that moment when he was growing where he was moving, where he was on track, he was gutted."
SCARBOROUGH: "You go back to that New Hampshire debate."
SCHMIDT: "That New Hampshire debate pulled Marco Rubio from a trajectory where he could have won the state to, at worst, this is a strong second place to a fifth-place finish that ended his campaign. He slowly bled out over the days between New Hampshire and last night but he never recovered. That was the decisive moment in the campaign for Rubio."