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.
Still Report #404 - Pre-Debate Assessment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn62En6h-Sc
Still Report #403 - Trump Jumps to 31%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrFUcSD3CEQ
“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).”
He isn’t (they aren’t) finished yet. I wouldn’t rule out a scorched earth option as of yet if things don’t seem to be playing out the way they’d like.
This is an armed society. I am an armed individual.
Attempt to kill it outright may be what we need.
Are you advocating our slow death versus the potential for millions to be made aware of the dire straits we are in?
The Left-Right paradigm is being upended, at last.
Wow! That actually sounds like wonderful to me! No new bills/laws, no new taxes, no new stupid laws...geez, what’s not to like?
My idea of a good Congress is they reduce the number of laws of the books - and no new laws passed unless two thirds of Congress agrees!
” if the GOP nominates Jebhole Bush, then I say go ahead.”
Better dead than Jeb.
A third party candidate cannot win unless he gets over 50% of the electoral votes. Under the 12th Amendment, if he only gets a plurality then it goes to the House to pick the next President.
I would like to add...
Passing bills and getting things done has never been the job of Congress!
Congress is responsible for doing the peoples work. If that means passing laws, okay, but it also means removing laws and regulations that have become onerous.
When the Congress does the removing part as well as the passing of new laws part, then we can argue about how efficient they are.
Otherwise, they are just a detriment to business and the daily lives of most Americans.
Please don’t give me the Congress does good work by passing laws crap!
Perot never stood a chance of winning.
Whenever you have three candidates you have to win a clear majority of the electoral college or it goes to the House, which will inevitably vote along party lines.
The best Perot could have possibly done was a plurality win of the popular vote which would have gotten him nothing.
What I see in all this 3rd party is the dem wins. I see both Biden and Kerry entering the race because they too have ego issues and see the hildabeast as weak. u watch
heck, even Gore might jump in
Does this mean that 64 percent of the “GOP” is solidly for a Third Bush after all?
In the end it will be the big Bush money against Ted. Ted will win u watch
“How does an Independent President Bernie Sanders get anything thru a hostile House or Senate?”
You mean a COMMUNIST President Bernie Sanders....a raving representative of the Soros International Communist America Destruction League...
They’re smiling not at The Donald but at his $$$.
Jeb is mentally ill (Megalomania) and SHRILLARY! is an evil monster from bell.
RNC had best behave themselves.
I’m thinking he has a better chance than Hillary, Biden or O’Malley.
And so will I, crawling through a bed of hot coals and a football field of broken glass.
Can the congress remove any established law without the president’s signature?
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