Time's running out

Rove: Time's running out to stop Trump

By Eliza Collins

Karl Rove believes there is still time for Republicans who don’t want Donald Trump to be the 2016 GOP nominee to get behind a candidate — but it’s running out.

In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal out Wednesday night, the former senior adviser to President George W. Bush took stock of Trump’s recent string of victories.

“Donald Trump scored a very impressive win in Nevada, taking 45.9% and 14 of the state’s 30 delegates to the GOP convention. But the Republican nomination is far from settled,” Rove wrote. “After four contests, only 133 of the convention’s 2,472 delegates have been selected.”

“There is still time for the non-Trump GOP majority to coalesce around a single candidate, but not much,” Rove continued.

The party has until about mid-March to coalesce behind one person, Rove said. “If not, the hopes of the party’s non-Trump majority will suffer the same fate as Caesar."

Before the op-ed was published on Wednesday, Trump was already going after Rove on his favorite medium of attack.

“Big defeat last night in Nevada for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. @KarlRove on @FoxNews is working hard to belittle my victory. Rove is sick!” Trump tweeted. “In all of television- the only one who said anything bad about last nights landslide victory-- was dopey @KarlRove. He should be fired!”