Leibovich: Rubio ‘Was a Bad Fit’ with Today’s GOP; Like ‘Everyone Else, He Got Trumped’

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SCARBOROUGH: “Mark Leibovich, let’s talk about what happened with Marco Rubio.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Please tell us about what happened to that campaign because everybody had so much I guess they believed he was the one. I think the one, in quotes. And ‘Time’ magazine had his as the cover as the savior. What happened?”
LEIBOVICH: “In 2013. Marco Rubio was anointed maybe like four or five different times over the last few years including the last few months. He just never — like Ted Cruz, he was talking for many, many weeks about oh, now it’s two-man race. There will be people into may, I don’t know who they are, talking about being a N a two-man race with Donald Trump when, in fact, it never existed. Marco Rubio just never took off. I think he was a really — ultimately I think he was a bad fit with today’s Republican Party in this primary electorate and like everyone else, he kind of got trumped.”
SCARBOROUGH: “They had a supreme degree of confidence, didn’t they? Even when you were there. They were sure they were on a mission and they really did believe they had the guy that was going to win it all, right?”
LEIBOVICH: “Well, yeah. I don’t know what they really thought. I mean, they had a supreme degree of confidence in the same way that Ted Cruz last night had ha supreme degree of confidence after losing everywhere and saying, okay, now it’s a two-man race. I mean, look, it did, if you listen to the quote/unquote conventional wisdom, which has been wrong every single time in this race, they did think that, okay, the establishment is coalescing around us and look we have all these big fancy establishment endorsements that are coming in by the hour which, you know, as we’ve learned so many times mean absolutely nothing. Has he underperformed? Yeah, in that the rest of the party has underperformed next to Donald Trump in this election.”