{"id":31234,"date":"2016-02-26T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=31234"},"modified":"2016-02-26T10:17:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:17:44","slug":"a-rubio-cruz-ticket-might-be-the-only-way-to-stop-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/02\/a-rubio-cruz-ticket-might-be-the-only-way-to-stop-trump.html","title":{"rendered":"“A Rubio-Cruz Ticket Might Be the Only Way to Stop Trump”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Senator<\/a>
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Senator<\/a>
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
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As long as Mr. Trump faces two serious competitors and two other hopelessly marginal but nonetheless vote-draining alternatives \u2014 it\u2019s inconceivable that many genuine Carson or Kasich supporters would go to Trump if those candidates withdrew \u2014 he\u2019s likely to continue to win with pluralities of the vote, and he will almost certainly be the Republican nominee for president.<\/p>\n

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For the good of their country, Gov. Kasich and Dr. Carson need to quit the race, and Sen. Rubio and Sen. Cruz need to find a way to stop dividing the non-Trumpist vote. \u00a0(Last night\u2019s debate, in which both scored major hits on the execrable Mr. Trump, was a good first step, but it may have been too little, too late.)<\/p>\n

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One or the other of them, for example, could drop out. \u00a0It would be a noble gesture. \u00a0And, no doubt, each thinks that the other should do so. \u00a0As of now, though, their finishes have been\u00a0so close together that each still has the hope of coming out ahead of the other. \u00a0And\u00a0right now, unfortunately, that hope seems to extend only as far as also-ran status, leaving the nomination to a man who is utterly unworthy of it.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s another idea:<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/431778\/marco-rubio-ted-cruz-stop-donald-trump<\/a><\/p>\n

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I get a kick out of the idea of Los Hermanos Cubanos<\/em>. \u00a0It would be amusing, in an era of renewed relations with the dictatorship in Cuba, to have a\u00a0son of Cuban emigrants as president of the United States. \u00a0But it would be downright delicious<\/em>, all other things being equal, to have Cuban-Americans as both president and vice president.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the problem with this proposal is pretty much parallel to the problem with having one of the two withdraw from the race in deference to the other: \u00a0Each will think that he<\/em> should be the presidential candidate and that the other<\/em> should be the vice-presidential nominee.<\/p>\n

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But a \u201cnational unity\u201d ticket like this would be a very good counter to the alarming rise of Trumpism in the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

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