Super Tuesday

The ebb and flow of campaigns is something political insiders and professionals try to master, but it is usually mysterious. Timing is everything. It is clear that Ted Cruz and especially Marco Rubio have generated some momentum by attacking Donald Trump more personally and viscerally, but far from clear that it will change the course of the contest. What if Rubio had started two weeks earlier with personal attacks: Trump as “con man'; Trump should sue “whoever did that to his face”; Trump as an elderly man who had to check during the debate that “his pants weren’t wet”?

Much to the chagrin of the political establishment, Donald Trump is on the verge of locking up the GOP nomination.

New Hampshire: Trump.

Nevada: Trump.

South Carolina: Trump.

Put simply, if the brazen billionaire locks up Super Tuesday, it's all over for the field. Here's a preview of next week's critical polls via Politico:

Alabama primary; 50 delegates

It's one thing for the republican establishment to throw up all over the candidacy of Donald Trump: frankly, the GOP has not been relevant as a political power ever since Boehner started folding like a lawn chair to Obama's every demand just around the time of the first US downgrade, and as such what the Republican party - torn apart and very much irrelevant as the best of the "establishment" GOP candidates demonstrate - thinks is largely irrelevant.

In what is clearly a play for Vice-President, Fox News reports:

• *CHRIS CHRISTIE ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT

The establishment is coming out of denial.

Christie speaks...

"I can guarantee you that the one person Hillary Clinton does not want to see on that stage come September, is Donald Trump"

 

"The best person to beat Hillary Clinton on that stage is undoubtedly Donald Trump"

 

"It's time to say no to professional politicians and yes to someone who has created jobs and grown a business," says Chris Collins, a Republican congressman from Trump's home state of New York, but he is among a quiet few among the entrenched establishment that is "confused and cowed" as The Donald soars to a massive lead at the bookies.