Posted on 07/23/2015 6:31:16 AM PDT by ziravan
Yes. Just to finish that thought, this doesn’t apply to Sen. Cruz because his Senate seat isn’t up until 2018.
You could only run in two Primaries and be on the Nov ballot if you won both. Lose one, and you are barred from being on the Nov ballot as a Primary loser.
Now. If Texas had a system like NY where the Conservative Party sometimes endorses the Republican candidate, that would work. A Conservative Party nominating by convention after the Primary could nominate another Party’s primary winner. Just not a loser.
I had not heard of this law, thanks for posting this.
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OPINION:
The ONLY way Trump will run as a third party would be, IF the GOP leadership was to employ dirty tricks... Like, for example, excluding Trump from the national debates, when Trump is leading in the polls.
The GOP leadership has a right to choose who IS a Republican; Trump has a right to go his own way.
I suspect Trump would announce a third-party run long before December.
If Trump is in the Republican debates, and falls of his own weight, he will not run as a third party candidate.
If the GOP establishment kicks Trump out of the party, (which may very well happen,) or tries to exclude him from the debates, EXPECT Trump to act accordingly. He would be right in doing this; the GOP establishment would leave him no choice.
If Trump loses the Republican nomination, after being fairly heard, he will call it quits and support the winner.
The GOP establishment is planting seeds of doubt with this smear campaign, Trump should clearly articulate his opinion on this, and why he is keeping this option open; that would shut the talking heads up.
If Trump wanted to he could run as a libertarian. They’d change some of their platform just to get that kind of face time. They were on the ballot in 48 states in 2012 plus the District of Columbia. They were not on the ballot in Oklahoma and were an acceptable write-in in Michigan.
They are the most viable 3rd party.
This is well worth a bump given that the RINOs have encouraged the MSM to fill the news cycle void this weekend with specious 3rd-party candidates.
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