Bush is officially suspending.
Also looks like Trump is solidly taking SC. Cruz and Rubio still a toss up for second and a solid third place.
Thank God...
And keep in mind, we're not even 1/4 of the way through the primaries yet. And Rubio/Cruz's numbers combined have always trounced Trump. And as Jeb! drops out, Kaisch and the others should soon as well, none of their followers are going to go with Trump. The 30-ish% Trump consistently pulls is about as high as he gets, and it matches his approval ratings among likely GOP voters about that much too.
Trump's achilles heel is that he's almost no one's second choice as people drop out. He can win as long as that 30-ish% is enough to win, but once people shift around, he's going to drop.
A brokered convention is not ideal, but even if the three of them all go 1-2-3 in some combination through all 50 states, whoever was most consistently #2 other than Trump, assuming neither Rubio nor Cruz starts pulling ahead decisively, giving the other all the delegates and still not nominating Trump.
There is the issue of Trump going rogue and independent, which would sink the GOP candidate, sure, but I don't know how much he's willing to spend his money out of spite, knowing he won't win, assuming the conspiracy theories that "he's Hillary's secret spoiler" are just that, conspiracy theories.
Note too that the DNC primary/caucus attendance has up to a 30% "enthusiasm gap" as compared to the GOP race too.
And whoever wins the nomination, it's Hobson's choice for the DNC. Bernie is IMO unelectable, I don't care what the polling says now about various Bernie Vs. XYZ matchups. His optics and delivery sucks, even as compared to Trump's. Take away all the starry-eyed kids blathering about "free college", he's just a wild haired doddering old commie. Hillary gets the nomination through the chicanery and superdelegates, all the energy there is in the DNC base was with Bernie and all the energetic kids check out, take their ball and go home. And Hillary is unlikeable enough that the MSM won't give up completely on the email scandal. And the "new PC" social-justice-warrior climate, combined with Bill's sexual predator history... that is going to dog her all the way too.
I'm not going to "freak out" until May or so.
p.s. None of that Jeb-money is going to Trump either, so look to Cruz or Rubio's war-chest getting some significant deposits soon.