Every moment is a Rubio moment

Marco Rubio is completely dominating the media's "moments" — just not the polls

Let's try this one more time.
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Marco Rubio is going to have a moment in tonight's debate. You can just feel it. He and his cheerleaders have been waiting for the Rubio moment, that instant when he begins consolidating non-Trump support in the Republican Party and makes his dashing rise to the top of the race. If you average the polls, he's currently third nationally among Republicans at 11.3 percent. He's polling third in Iowa at 13 percent. And he's just barely ahead of Jon Kasich for second in New Hampshire at 13.2 percent. With one of his chief antagonists, Rand Paul, excluded from the next debate, it's finally his time. The Rubio moment is here.

Or maybe it's here again? No one is quite sure.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is senior correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is the founder and editor of The Slurve, a newsletter about baseball. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, ESPN Magazine, Slate and The American Conservative.