Posted on 08/03/2015 8:19:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Donald Trump gets bumped out of the Republican primaries and runs as an independent third party candidate, 36 percent of Republicans and a whopping 19 percent of likely Democratic voters would support him, according to a new poll.
Rasmussen Reports on Monday said that a Trump third party bid would complicate the presidential election even more than it did when H. Ross Perot ran in 1992, a bid that many believe cost former President George H.W. Bush a second term.
According to the poll:
• Over a third (36 percent) of likely GOP voters say they are likely to vote for Trump if he's a third-party candidate, with 18 percent who are :very likely" to do so.
• One-in-three voters who are not affiliated with either major party (33 percent) also are likely Trump voters, including 16 percent who say they are very likely to vote for him if he runs third-party.
• Even 19 percent of Democrats describe themselves as likely Trump voters, although that includes just nine percent (9 percent) who say they are very likely to vote that way.
Other recent polls found that a Trump independent run would cost the Republican nominee and all but guarantee a Democratic victory.
Stop it already. We’re grown weary of the threats.
What’s the difference between Hillary and any of the RINOs in the race?
America will die if John Ellis wins.
Hillary would be the end.
Not "bad."
The.End.
With the nomination, Trump will take the Reagan path to the presidency. The Republican vote, the Independents and a fair share of Democrats as well. That translates to about 60% of the popular vote and a sweep in the electoral college.
Don’t care anymore/voting for Trump wherever he lines up...hate them all. Otherwise NOT VOTING. End of line for me.
“At least the GOP Congress under Clinton functioned as a reasonably effective conservative body. “
Was there another GOP Congress during the 90s? Perhaps in some parallel life dimension that “functioned as a reasonably effective conservative body”?
The GOP Congress I remember gave ‘the bent one’ everything he wanted. It included a mandatory cave-in on a government shutdown, and the rape of Social Security by allowing ANYTHING to be considered a disability.
He would not get enough to get the nomination. About 1/3 of the states would not have him on the ballot. The deadline to get a party on the ballot is too soon.
This is a strictly competitive game for conservatives.
It used to be we weren’t entirely happy when a “moderate” Republican won—for example, a Bush—so it was like the definition of a good bargain: everyone walks away a little unhappy.
But we could live with him, unlike a Democrat winner. Since the RINO phenomenon began in earnest, now it doesn’t matter if a Democrat wins or a Mitch/Boehner/McCain wins; IOW, if a conservative doesn’t win, we’re equally screwed either way.
Hey 2ndDV!
Just visualize the bottles of liquor and prescription drugs being uncapped and consumed by those uppity wizards of all things political throughout Washington, DC!
LOLOLOLOL.
I disagree. Jeb would continue the status quo constant crippling and undermining, yes. But he wouldn't kill it outright.
But Hillary would turn out the lights by smashing them with a baseball bat, screeching with glee and howling at the moon while she screamed orders to load the cattle cars.
Whole different scale - mere treachery versus a final collapse into bloody madness.
Think Pol Pot.
Ah yes, I think that also would be true - sometimes, but then I think that all of those elected in Congress surely would not allow such things as you imagine to happen.
Our Government system is resilient and would survive a Hillary government but probably because of the feedback of those in Congress.
No, the end if it were to occur should have been with this elected President. He has done more to destroy America that any could possibly imagine (past Presidents included).
So far, we are surviving (weakly at times), but we will prevail. I imagine that a good leader will bring us out of our funk quickly if only we can elect the right one.
No No No Ya’ll. Trump ain’t going third party . You guys are way behind. Catch up or drop out. Trump is now the Republican Party. The old bush/ christie/ kasich Karl rove — Koch brothers establishment will be trying to go third party — not our new REPUBLICAN party. These Rino Neocons are flat history in a book and they know it. Stop them from electing biden. Stop the third party from forming. VOTE for TRUMP!! Let them hold their damned noses!!
“Uh, doesn’t that mean he’d almost certainly beat both John Ellis and Hillary in the general election?”
No. It means that the Democrats win the presidency again, just like with the first Clinton and Perot.
81% of Democrats and 33% of independents is a majority that beats 36% of Repubicans plus 33% of Independents plus 19% of Democrats, or 64% of Republicans and 33% of independents.
The GOP Congresses in the time of Clinton managed to get something of a handle on spending. Under Bush, not so much.
The actual Silent Majority has changed in the recent years! Not sure if you are the Media really has any idea these days.
That is not meant as a negative thing, it is simply that the world has changed and those old definitions no longer apply!
Jeb’s mission is to give it to Hillary because as the Uniparty have all agreed, it’s her turn. I’ll give better odds to Trump in a three way race than most.
That picture is starting to get burned into my screen...
How does an Independent President Bernie Sanders get anything thru a hostile House or Senate?
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