Posted on 04/02/2016 1:29:04 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The Republican establishment breathed a huge sigh of relief last fall when GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump signed a loyalty pledge binding him to endorse the GOP nominee, whomever it is, and precluding a third-party run. At the time, a close associate said the candidate felt he’d been “treated fairly” by the party, which had been Trump’s stated criterion for deciding to sign the pledge.
A lot of things have changed since then — including both the relationship between Trump and the party and the candidate’s commitment to the pledge, apparently. As the New York Post reports, the GOP frontrunner is leaving the door open for a third-party bid, should he not walk away from the party convention as the nominee.
Donald Trump is refusing to rule out a third-party bid for The White House.
During a Fox News interview airing Sunday, Trump said he would prefer to run on the Republican line, but left himself the option for an independent bid should the party reject him at the July national convention in Cleveland.
“I want to run as a Republican. I will beat Hillary Clinton,” he told Fox’s Chris Wallace, in an excerpt released Friday.
When pressed on a potential third-party candidacy, Trump added: “I’m gonna have to see how I was treated [before making a decision]. It’s very simple.”
A third-party run by anyone has the potential to dramatically alter the general election outcome — and by someone with as much staunch support behind him as Donald Trump, it’s pretty much unchartered territory.
Rivals Sen. Ted Cruz and Gov. John Kasich both were also noncommittal recently about supporting the Republican nominee, regardless of who it ends up being, when asked by Anderson Cooper during a recent CNN town hall.
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“Same here. If they derail his nomination I’ll probably just not vote in November. Perhaps what this country needs is to just hit bottom, then we can (in a couple of generations) wake up and have a revolution or something.”
You think we can go lower? Especially with a SCOTUS seat out there? Losing the election and handing down line ticket to the rats guarantees that someone will knock on your door within a year asking for your gun. You know, the one you lost in that tragic boating accident. You will be jailed for not accepting global warming as settled science and you lose your ability to speak freely against the opposition without being labeled.
And because the GOPe is doing everything they can to ensure you stay home, you will gladly oblige them?
Are you suggesting that Trump made a unilateral agreement with no conditions? Do you believe that the GOPe are supporting Trump to the extent he deserves? I don't.
If the GOPe overrides the primary and nominates a lib, we’re going to get liberal Supremes anyway.
We need Trump in office.
If the GOPe overrides the primary and nominates a lib, we’re going to get liberal Supremes anyway.
We need Trump in office.
Think "Venezuela".
I will write him in.
Exactly. Should have put the /s tag.
I was trying to be sarcastic, obviously didn’t do a very good job.
Speaking of JOBS, it really is the number one issue. This is why I am for Trump and why I think he’ll win.
Really not interested in the others, just more of the same old same old.
I concur!
YUP.
If he does not get the nomination it will be due to underhandiness/unfairness by everyone else to keep him out.
That would be a major hurdle.
Then we'll run Sarah Palin. I damn well know right now I won't be voting for the GOP candidate. If I don't have a candidate to vote for, I'll not even show up at the polls, down ticket candidates be damned.
I’ll show up, write in Trump-and vote against ALL down ticket Republicans.
>>It would be a brilliant move for him to run as a candidate of the Libertarians while pursuing the republican nomination.<<
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YES!!
So basically if he doesn’t get the nomination, no matter how it happens, he’s gonna throw a trumpertantrum....
He’ll be 70 by that time.
Right on Bernies heels
Why has Allen West resorted to crappy Click bait ALL THE TIME?
Off topic I know....
I like him, but this crap is so low rent. I thought he was better than that.
>> What else? <<
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We must keep our minds clear.
No one can take that away.
We must do what is right.
We must stay the course of trying to reclaim the nation no matter what transpires.
If an enemy has snuck into power in the dead of night, and America no longer belongs to The People, we must persevere.
Generations before us have endured worse, yet prevailed.
Not many. I think most will walk with him.
The GOP(e) owes little to a candidate for nomination. If the party could “support” a primary candidate you would see Bush instead of Cruz. What funds have Trump raised for the party?
I see Trumpists as paranoids looking for and thinking up evidence of the party’s evil. If Trump gets 1237 he will be the nominee. He will the be my candidate.
So a secret meeting is a breach of contract.
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