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Will the GOP Mount a Third-Party Challenge to Trump?
Politico ^ | Jeff Greenfield

Posted on 12/20/2015 5:34:38 PM PST by TigerClaws

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To: mhx

What about Perot running against George H.W.?


61 posted on 12/20/2015 9:20:37 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Fungi

Cruz will not go 3rd party-—but others might like Dr. Carson, or Christie or ???
GOP—Trump/Cruz
Reform—Christie/Jeb Bush
Democrat-—Hillary/Castro
Socialist-—Bernie Sanders/ ?


62 posted on 12/20/2015 9:23:32 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: TigerClaws

Oh Great. How to win friends and win elections.
Save it for democrats, boys.


63 posted on 12/20/2015 9:34:07 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: BenLurkin

The New RINO Party!


64 posted on 12/20/2015 9:39:51 PM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump 2016! Pick strongest on immigration control - Santorum as VP.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Which numbers are you looking at? I am not seeing your numbers at RCP.


65 posted on 12/20/2015 9:41:23 PM PST by entropy12 (Go Trump 2016! Pick strongest on immigration control - Santorum as VP.)
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To: TigerClaws
What happens to the party if he wins?

Then the party amasses a little bit of credibility...

Better question is, What happens to the party if it manages to unseat Trump (and/or Cruz) and ends up with Hillary in the WH due to its treachery....

66 posted on 12/21/2015 4:17:09 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: TigerClaws
Most likely, the RNC will try to manipulate the National Convention so that their superdelegates vote for their candidate of choice (Rubio or Bush) to block Trump.

If that fails, I'm sure they could convince Lindsey Graham or Chris Christie to mount a Third Party challenge to Trump, assuming that they don't just come out and endorse Hillary.

67 posted on 12/21/2015 9:28:40 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

Graham yesterday said he could work with Hillary.

The GOPe knows the Clintons and they have a symbiotic relationship. They’d be fine with the Clintons.

It’s conservatives the GOPe really hates.


68 posted on 12/21/2015 9:32:36 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws
The GOP establishment would rather have one of their own than Hillary, but they would rather have Hillary or any establishment Democrat than a conservative or a populist. To Karl Rove and Reince Priebus, Hillary is an opponent, Trump and Cruz are enemies.

We saw the same thing 20 years ago when Pat Buchanan won the NH primary: everyone from Rockefeller Republican Colin Powell to neoconservative luminaries like Bill Kristol said that they would support Clinton if Buchanan won the GOP nomination.

69 posted on 12/21/2015 9:37:27 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: Steely Tom

Sorry dude. I lost my head.


70 posted on 12/21/2015 10:24:29 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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