Donald and Hillary Win; Jeb is Out

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This is Ray Mossholder with Campaign 2016.
From the news desk of Reach More Now in Fort Worth, Texas, this is Ray Mossholder and this is Campaign 2016: The results of the South Carolina Republican primary and the Nevada caucus.

 

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton win; Jeb Bush drops out; and Marco Rubio squeaks by Ted Cruz. Here are the final results in the two states that voted yesterday.

Donald Trump received almost a third of the votes cast yesterday in South Carolina with 32%; Marco Rubio ended up ahead of Ted Cruz by .2 % – Rubio received 22.5% of the vote to Ted’s 22.3%; Jeb Bush received 7.8% (more about him in a minute); and Doctor Ben Carson received 7.2% of the vote. The spread between the six candidates ranged from Donald Trump’s 238,067 votes to Doctor Carson’s 52,958.

Meanwhile, in Nevada’s caucus, Hillary Clinton won 19 delegates with 52.7% and Sanders got 15 delegates with 47.2%. This will give her momentum in South Carolina and if she wins there, even more momentum when she heads for Super Tuesday, March 1, when a whole lot of states will be voting. Donald Trump may have that same advantage.

Hillary did cover her bets in Nevada. Her press secretary told Brian Fallon on MSNBC before the voting began “There’s reason to believe that Senator Sanders should fare well in a state like Nevada. Obviously there’s an important Hispanic element to the Democratic caucus–goer universe in Nevada, but it’s still a state that is 80% white voters. You have a caucus style format, and he’ll have the momentum coming out of New Hampshire presumably, so there’s a lot of reasons he should do well.” But Bernie didn’t, not nearly as well as Hillary in the Silver State. However, Sanders did far better than polls predicted even a month ago when Hillary Clinton was 13% ahead of him.

In spite of her win, her press secretary’s statement about Nevada having 80% white voters makes it hard to believe she wasn’t either terribly misinformed or flat out lying. Since Nevada was the very first state that set up a campaign headquarters for Hillary among all 50, in all that time Hillary’s press secretary definitely should have known the demographics of the state. That leaves the probability that the press secretary was flat out lying. According to census data from 2014, about half of Nevada’s population is not white – 28% Latino, 9% African-American and 8% Asian American. And in the midst of all that, Hillary was able to do the victory lap.

At the Clinton headquarters, Hillary told her adoring crowd “Americans are right to be angry, but we are also hungry for real solutions. In the campaign, you’ve heard a lot about Washington and Wall Street. We all want to get secret unaccountable money out of politics. That starts with supporting a new justice to the Supreme Court who will protect the right of every citizen to vote, not for every corporation to buy elections. … The truth is, we artist single issue country. We need more than a plan for the big banks, the middle class needs a raise and we need more jobs.”

In South Carolina there were three victory speeches! One from the real winner, Donald Trump; but a second and a third from Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, who sounded every bit like they had taken first in South Carolina. And then there was fourth where Jeb Bush crashed and burned.

Jim Bush was the good old boys – the Karl Rove-ites – the rich Republican elite choice for President. When the starting gate for the 2016 election opened, Bush was expected to burst out first and from that time on all the other horses would only see his tail. No one at the beginning would’ve thought that the Bush Dynasty – “Like father, like son” and then another “Like father, like son” but that would never be in the cards for a man named Jeb. It’s hard to tell what would be bothering Jeb Bush most about having to drop out. Would it be the embarrassment of having his ninety-year-old mother stomping for him? Or his brother George W. And his wife Laura coming out of their political closet where they had stayed nearly almost all of Obama’s presidency, to shout the praises of the former governor of Florida? Or was it the millions and millions of dollars squandered by the elite and other Oober-rich lobbyists and fatcats to put him first in this race for the White House – money that has now evaporated along with Jeb’s candidacy? Or is it that the man he attacked with with ridicule and accusation every debate – Marco Rubio – was always way ahead of him wherever state votes had been counted so far? Or did it come last night when whoever it was who told Jeb Bush “Your glory days are over. Drop out!” We will never know, but Jeb Bush does

Ironically, Marco Rubio – Jeb Bush’s nemesis – will be the benefactor more than likely of most of the votes Jeb Bush might’ve gotten in coming state primaries and caucuses. You can will bet the good old boys are putting all of their campaign money on Marco now.

Jeb Bush said to his disappointed fans in South Carolina last night “The people of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina have spoken and I respect your decision, so tonight I am suspending my campaign. When I began this journey in Miami I committed that I would campaign as I would serve, going everywhere, speaking to everyone, keeping my word, facing the issues without flinching and staying true to what I believe. I fully believe the American people must entrust this office to someone who believes whoever holds it is a servant, not the master. In this campaign, I have stood my ground, refusing to bend to the political winds. I’m proud of the campaign we have run.”

It is not beyond credulity that America will still get another chance to put Jeb Bush in the White House a few years from now. Dynasties die hard. Just look at the Clinton’s.

This is Ray Mossholder with Campaign 2016.

Donald and Hillary Win; Jeb is Out