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Jim Lane

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11. I think Marco sees a possible opening for 2020.

Tue Feb 7, 2017, 01:34 PM

Feb 2017

It's not so much payback for 2016. Politicians often take the attitude of "That was then, this is now."

It's more like: By 2020, Trump may be looking so incredibly unpopular that many Republicans fear he'd lose in a landslide and take a lot of downticket Republicans with him. There may be a substantial faction in the party that wants to deny him renomination. If so, those Republicans will be looking for a more conventional candidate, someone with governmental experience, someone with mostly mainstream-GOP views, but someone who stood up to Trump often enough to have a least a bit of plausibility as a "change-agent" candidate.

If that's Rubio's calculation, he might even be right.

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