Conservative South Carolina Rep.
Trey Gowdy's endorsement comes too late to help a falling Marco Rubio presidential campaign, political analyst Dick Morris tells
Newsmax TV, but Newsmax's own John Gizzi disagrees.
"Endorsements never mean anything, and yet an endorsement in a presidential race where people have spent maybe 10 hours watching the candidates perform in debates mean even less," Morris said Monday on "Newsmax Now."
"It's an effort by Rubio to try to get some momentum back, but Rubio is almost out of the race," Morris said. "He's at 10 percent of the vote in most of the polls, 11 or 12. He's in fourth or fifth place and I just do not see him recovering."
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Gizzi countered that while Gowdy's endorsement alone won't help Rubio, it can be combined with the endorsements of other young Republicans.
"I've known him since the day after he won the primary in 2010 defeating a controversial more moderate Republican incumbent named Robert English," Gizzi said. "He energized conservatives. He was tea party before it was cool, so when he endorses Sen. Rubio he brings an organization of young activists with him who have been with him since he won an upset election to Congress five years ago. That is significant, particularly in a primary."
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