GOP Voters Predict Which Candidate Will Drop Out of the Presidential Race Next
Political prognosticators are wondering: Which GOP contender will drop next?
— -- First, Rick Perry bit the dust of the presidential campaign trail. Then, Scott Walker bowed out.
And, now, political prognosticators everywhere are all wondering the same thing: Which of the 15 remaining Republican White House contenders will be the next to drop out of the race?
ABC News decided to put that question to a random sampling of attendees at the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, which is taking place in Washington, DC this weekend and we got a variety of responses.
Jessica Kramer, a student at Liberty University, the Christian college in Virginia, said candidates who are scraping rock-bottom in the polls should get the boot.
“Pataki or Lindsey Graham have really, really low polling and they don’t really have a group of conservatives, or voters within the Republican Party that really back or support them,” Kramer said. “I think we need to start dropping out candidates who don’t really have a claim to a certain group, so that we can get their supporters on board with somebody else.”
Paul Martin, a volunteer at the summit, a gathering of faith-focused GOP voters, agreed with Kramer.
“Lindsey Graham or Bobby Jindal [will drop next] because they are at the bottom,” Martin predicted. “I like Bobby Jindal, but I don’t think he has much of a shot.”
But despite commanding the top spot in national and many state polls, several voters ABC spoke to did not spare Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
“I’m just going to say Donald Trump, because I don’t really agree with him,” said Aidan Chalkley, an enlisted Marine. “He says the things that everybody wants to hear, but it doesn’t seem like it’s what he believes. I don’t think he would be a good presidential candidate.”
Joe Ryan, a native of Washington, DC who attended the conference, agreed with Chalkley.
“I think Trump ought to get out of the race. He’ll never be president -- he couldn’t be president -- and it’s all about him,” Ryan said. “But he’s going to spend all of his money, and he’s not going to be elected."
But, Ryan added, “he’s not gonna do it.”
And if not Trump?
“Probably Huckabee,” Ryan said.