First on CNN: Rubio prepares for contested convention

[flowers]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/politics/rubio-republican-convention/index.html

    Marco Rubio's campaign is preparing for a contested Republican Convention as one option to take the GOP nomination away from Donald Trump and Ted Cruz
    He outlined the plans to a closed-door meeting of GOP donors in New York

Houston (CNN)Marco Rubio's campaign is preparing for a contested Republican Convention as one option to take the GOP nomination away from Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, his campaign manager told top donors at a closed-door meeting in Manhattan Wednesday night.

As Rubio scrambles for support ahead of Super Tuesday, Terry Sullivan, Rubio's top adviser, used a Power Point presentation and took questions from attendees to lay out the two courses that Rubio's quest for the GOP nomination could take in the coming months, two people present told CNN, speaking anonymously to share details from a private meeting.

The first showed the number of states and delegates Rubio would need to clinch the nomination outright before July's convention. The second was the scenario in which none of the candidates gain the simple majority delegates needed to clinch the nomination before the convention, unleashing a messy and potentially unpredictable battle where multiple candidates are vying for the title.

The meeting comes as Rubio is trying to lock up the support of establishment Republicans looking for an alternative to Trump and Cruz. The Rubio campaign needs to convince donors and GOP power brokers that it has a true path to victory. Trump is heading into Super Tuesday as the undisputed GOP front-runner, having won New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, and Rubio has not yet won a state.

Sullivan has acknowledged in the past that a brokered convention might be hypothetically possible, but Wednesday's comments are a concrete indication that the campaign is preparing for such an outcome.

Sullivan gave a "technical" explanation of how a contested or brokered convention would work. According to the sources in the room, the gathering appeared to be a matter-of-fact recognition by the Rubio campaign that a contested convention is very much a possibility.

[Scottftlc]

He outlined the plans to a closed-door meeting of GOP donors in New York


Those donors will be the death of him.  Makes him look just like a politician - like a puppet controlled by big money interests, the hand that animates him and slides a few bills in his pockets.  It's not really good idea to look like that this year.

[katzenjammer]

If it comes down to something like, Marco shouldn't be counting on him being the one that they wish to install!   

[katzenjammer]

He outlined the plans to a closed-door meeting of GOP donors in New York


Those donors will be the death of him.  Makes him look just like a politician - like a puppet controlled by big money interests, the hand that animates him and slides a few bills in his pockets.  It's not really good idea to look like that this year.

He's beyond any ability to prevent that!   

[ArneFufkin]

He outlined the plans to a closed-door meeting of GOP donors in New York


Those donors will be the death of him.  Makes him look just like a politician - like a puppet controlled by big money interests, the hand that animates him and slides a few bills in his pockets.  It's not really good idea to look like that this year.

You do know, don't you, that Trump's claims of "completely self funding" his campaign are just another of his serial falsehoods?