The news is filled with reports of senior Republican operatives, donors and elected officials frantically plotting to stop Donald Trump from securing the party’s presidential nomination. Whatever they have been doing thus far plainly isn’t working: Trump won nine out of the 13 Super Tuesday states and is racking up key endorsements. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the so-called GOP establishment’s preferred candidate, won just one state -- reliably Democratic Minnesota -- and did not even reach the 20-percent threshold needed to win any delegates in Texas. But instead of coalescing behind a single candidate or a coherent anti-Trump strategy, the party’s mainstream power...
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