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“I believe I’m the only one who can beat Hillary Clinton,” Trump explained. “Having a two-party race gives us a much better chance of beating Hillary and bringing our country back than having a third-party candidate.”
At that point, I asked Trump about Ross Perot’s third-party run in 1992, in which Perot won 19 percent of the popular vote. Did Trump believe Perot was a spoiler in that election?
“Totally,” Trump said. “I think every single vote that went to Ross Perot came from [George H.W.] Bush…Virtually every one of his 19 percentage points came from the Republicans. If Ross Perot didn’t run, you have never heard of Bill Clinton.”
I hope he does not go the third party route. I hope he keeps on hammering on this duplicitous liberal debacle and the penchant they have for protecting illegal invaders.
I further hope that his diligence forces Jebito farther towards showing what a traitor he is with respect to wanting illegals to get citizenship. Anything that forces him to voice his support for pathways or any of this double-speak is a good thing.
Exactly right. If Trump goes third party, the Hag will win.
It’s a direct threat to the RNC and GOP-e to back off. That’s why Bush has gone silent on Trump since Monday.
Trump is probably #1 in the polls right now or very close to it.
If the GOP effectively kicks him out, boots him from the party (and exhortations from party members to exclude Trump from the debates run along that line), then Trump’s choices are to abandon his run, or to continue but outside of the party that rejected him.
POS is a friend of Bill and Hill and an all around trouble maker.
The next election concievably could be a 4 way race. Establishment repub and dim as well as Trump and sanders as independents.
It’ doesn't make sense...unless you allow that it would be an ABSOLUTE godsend to Liberals and that THEY would themselves push ‘Republicans’ in that direction.
I say ‘Republicans’ as distinct from Conservatives.
Anyway, no matter what else happens, (and I've said this previously) THIS election will ALSO be a referendum for scrapping the GOP.
The GOP over the past decades has become an increasingly insular and out-of-touch organization which both IS and is SEEN TO BE antagonistic to true Republicans (if any remain) and true Conservatives (whose numbers are routinely deflated by the MSM).
I’ve already changed my party affiliation to Independent. If the GOP puts up a Jeb Bush, I will either vote 3rd or will not vote. Over the falls we go.
Not this time.
In a three way race, Trump wins, Yeb Bush comes in third and the GOP goes on the ash heap of history because they were unable/unwilling to represent the citizens.
Is that what he's calling himself today? I wonder what he will call himself tomorrow?
THE REPUBLICANS ARE THE ONES THAT ARE GONNA HAVE TO form a third party, because it looks like they ain’t gonna beat TRUMP in the one the have now.
Such a toothless threat. Trump will never run, he’s just using this for attention. He won’t release his financial info. If he ran for president, he’d have to raise more than $750 million.
By the way it’s been 16 days since he filed his candidate statement. You said he’d provide his financial quickly - I believe you said much faster than two week. Where is it?
Candidates espousing 3rd Party, Independent, No Party, etc idealogy are out there.
Currently there are over 450 candidates that have filed the FEC Form 2 as a candidate.
Most won’t make a blip on the overall radar but each will get a few votes.
http://www.fec.gov/press/resources/2016presidential_form2dt.shtml
I do not know what the GOP will do if elected nor I know what Clinton will do. In short, I’m going 3rd till they figure it out. So I hope Trump does 3rd as Patton would say ‘he’s the only son-of-a-bitch that know what he is doing.’
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The country is in dire straits. If you don’t stand your ground now when do you?
It’s time for conservatives to demonstrate the resolution that inspired the words “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death.”
If the GOPe throws Trump out and he goes Third Party i’ll go with him. And if he does go, I hope he takes Cruz with him.
It is now or never.