It now seems clear that Marco Rubio, just days ago the consensus pick for Republican nominee, came in 5th place tonight in New Hampshire. If you average it with 3rd place in Iowa, it’s 4th place combined. But that’s really just putting a pretty face on it. Rubio did promise supporters tonight that he’d never screw up like that again. But it now seems clear that the foreshadowing of this debacle, the frustration, the broken dreams, the failed Turing Test could be seen this afternoon when Rubio’s New Hampshire campaign chairman, Cliff Hurst, assaulted a protestor dressed as a robot at a Rubio event.
We tracked the robot down and talked to him about the harrowing incident. Here’s our report, just filed by Katherine Krueger.
