Posted on 07/21/2015 11:05:17 AM PDT by Coronal
Monday on AM 970’s “The Joe Piscopo Show,” pollster Frank Luntz suggested that since Republican presidential candidate and longtime Clinton friend Donald Trump refused to say he would endorse whoever got the Republican party nomination, it is a real “possibility” Trump is planning a third party run. This, as host Joe Piscopo pointed out, would allow Hillary to “walk right in” to the presidency and be an astonishing historical repeat, because Ross Perot’s third party candidacy is credited for President Bill Clinton’s victory over President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
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So let’s draft Sarah Palin to run as a fourth party nominee and thus reduce Idaho to a battleground state, since that’ll be the only contestable turf in the country.
He’s doing conservatives good now, but no one can be faulted for thinking he’ll turn on us.
Trump keeps going the way he is and the Republicans will be the third party.
Not bloody likely!
That closeness with the Clintons and Trump's willingness to cast all aside to cash in on a deal might be incentive enough for him to do this.
I think Walker can beat Hillary.
What is the liklihood if that? Zero? Twice zero?
Well, how many Democrat or more liberal voters would vote for Trump? Theoretically a 3rd party or independent candidate can win election, but so many people automatically vote for one of the two major parties.
Perot got 19% of the vote against Bill Clinton. Clinton got only 43% of the vote but won overwhelmingly in the electoral vote because he carried a number of individual states in the electoral college even though he got less than 50% of the vote in those states.
No votes for Jeb in my household, no matter the opponent. I’m staying out of the Bushes, permanently.
Walker at least is a proven commodity at the governance level. Trump is a bored billionaire with too much time on his hands.
It sounds to me the GOP Elite is doing anything they can to make Trump unappealing.
The internal polls must show Trump is very appealing, while the GOP Elite candidates are sucking air.
“Then plan on Hillary winning 35 states enroute to a blowout win on Election Day. That’ll show us.”
“Donald Trump continues to show hourly that he is ill-prepared to be commander in chief,” Lindsey Graham campaign manager Christian Ferry said in an e-mailed statement. “The two people most excited about Donald Trump’s candidacy are Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.”
no, banish that thought. Not gonna happen.
Yup
If Trump is not the nominee then I think a third-party run is very likely.
And Perot got maybe 8% or 9% his second go round.....
What would be their incentive for doing so when Hillary is sitting there awaiting coronation?
If more people publicly said this the GOP would be very, very worried.
Just what we (DON”T) need, a guaranteed Hillary!
Graham’s campaign manager is named “Ferry”? Seriously? lol...
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