Posted on 05/30/2016 9:29:36 AM PDT by Rockitz
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) will absolutely not be an independent candidate for president in November, his team confirmed to Breitbart News on Monday morning. A high-placed source close to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has also confirmed that it will not be him running against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump and likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in November. Another high-placed source, this one close to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), has confirmed that the Texas senator—Trump’s last serious competitor for the GOP nomination—will also not be launching an independent bid for president in November.
Sasse, an outspoken critic of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump from the beginning, has said he will not support Trump in the general election against Clinton.
Sasse is still holding out against Trump, drawing criticism from even his fellow Nebraskan Sen. Deb Fischer (R-NE)—who told the New York Times his strategy would hand Clinton the election.
“I don’t agree with his strategy,” Fischer said. “I’m not going to hand this election to Hillary Clinton.”
Bush and Trump, meanwhile, tangled roughly during the primary, and he has said he will not support Trump in the general election. Trump repeatedly called Bush “low energy,” and Bush made himself the tip of the spear against Trump for some time. Trump succeeded, while Bush failed, in the primary. Bush dropped out after a dismal performance in South Carolina, but he still refuses to back Trump against Clinton. ...
Sources close to several other potential high-profile independent candidates, such as 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, have not yet confirmed one way or the other whether they are going to run.
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Ben Sasse, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz Not Running as Independent Against Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton in November
Okay, now that right there was funny.
There’s Mittens but I doubt he’s running either.
Its Memorial Day and still no sign of Bill Kristol’s credible independent candidate.
This journalist has been pretty thorough. He’s asked a lot of different camps if you read down a ways.
Read a bit further. There are some fears that it will indeed be Romney.
I thought the surprise candidate was supposed to be the CEO of Cannabis Sativa Inc, Gary Johnson.
Didn’t he win the libertarian nomination yesterday?
“Sasse, an outspoken critic of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump from the beginning, has said he will not support Trump in the general election against Clinton. “
There’s a message there for Nebraska- don’t re-elect Ben Sasse when his term is up.
Bill Kristallnacht goes down in flames.
Hit the road.
Jeb still needs to hook up with Hillary.
When Trump is president, I hope he puts a nuclear waste dump in sASSe’s home town.
Oh, come on!
I really wanted to see a Let's Totally Destroy America and the Constitution
-ticket! (Jeb Bush/Ted Cruz)
[So long as the elites dump their money in and lose big, I'm fine with it.]
He did. Gary Johnson is the official candidate of the GOPe+Pot Party.
He announced his fiscal conservatism and his social liberalism, and denounced Trump’s plan for deporting illegal aliens.
Michael Medved and some of the other #neverTrump Salem Radio crew have been talking up Gary Johnson. This fits right in with their support for the neo-Obamite Neel Kashkari in the last California gubernatorial election.
lol. Unfair to the poor Nebraskans who were fooled by this self-serving opportunist. I’d prefer deporting Sasse to Mexico.
My hypothesis on Mr. Kristol’s independent candidate — Ron Paul.
Can you imagine if that happens? It will be cast in stone that Romney is a traitor who DELIBERATELY threw the election to Obama. It will make it much, much easier to attract Sanders supporters and Independents, knowing that Trump has purged the party of the pure evil which had taken it over....until now. It will turn "Mormon" and "Illuminati" into synonyms.
Maybe Mitt should go for it!!
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