Donald Trump thinks he can win the race for president. So does Ted Cruz. Maybe Marco Rubio thinks that, too. And maybe even Ben Carson, though he doesn’t have much grounds to anymore.
But what about all the other candidates, who are way, way down in the polls? At least Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal could see they weren’t going anywhere and pulled out. But what about the others? It’s no longer early in the political season, where anyone at 3% has a chance. If you’re at 3% nationally in the polls now, there is no chance you are going to be president. So what are they thinking?
George Pataki:
Pataki knows about struggle. He travels with only a few aides and has met with mostly small groups of voters. “Everybody goes, ‘How long, Pataki, can you stay in this?’ We’ve been running on a bare-bones campaign from the beginning,” he said last week.
Pataki is a former three-term governor of New York who has been out of office for ten years. He has spent most of his time practicing law and working at an environmental consulting firm to cash in on imaginary global warming. He is currently at zero percent in the polls. Maybe he’s thinking to raise his profile so he can get a job in the next administration? The only problem is that he hasn’t. He hasn’t even made it to the main debates. By wandering around alone in New Hampshire like a homeless man, he basically degrades himself.