Ted Cruz easily defeated Donald Trump in the Kansas caucus on Saturday. Does this mean anything for the future. The answer is a definite ‘yes;’ Marco Rubio will be forced to resign from his campaign if he loses in his home state of Florida in nine days.

The other item of importance is that Saturday’s results have rejected mainstream Republicans and their ‘boy,’ Marco. The two candidates most disliked by the Republican hierarchy are now the only possibilities left for the GOP in 2016.

Republicans are forced to choose between a loud mouthed businessman who knows nothing about our political system, and the most extreme member of Congress; the man who led the fight to shut down our government. He has no actual experience and no positive accomplishments to his credit.

Trump and Cruz split the four contests; Trump won in Kentucky and Louisiana, and Cruz was victorious in Kansas and Maine. Rubio finished third or fourth in each primary; not even close to either of the front runners.

Rubio has a single hope; one week from Tuesday is the ‘winner-take-all’ Florida primary. Today Rubio is behind Trump in the polls by 18.7 percent; Cruz is a distant third.

Leadership in the Republican Party must be pulling their hair out. What began as 17 passengers in the clown car is basically down to the two men they feared the most.

Trump has a large lead in Michigan, and a five-point lead in Ohio over Governor John Kasich.

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By James Turnage

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