Posted on 07/09/2015 2:17:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
By even his own admission, Donald Trump has only a 10-20% chance of becoming the country's next president. And most Republicans don't consider him a threat to win the nomination.
But at least one prominent Republican figure is starting to worry that Trump could end up on the general-election ballot in another way: by running as a third party candidate.
At a meeting of Republican strategists and lobbyists reported by the New York Times on Thursday, former Republican congressman Thomas Davis raised the possibility that Trump could play spoiler as a third-party candidate.
"You've got to keep him in the tent," Davis told the Times. "He's Ross Perot as an independent. He just wreaks havoc, and every vote he takes comes out of our hide."
According to the Times, members at the dinner said that the party needs to tread carefully as not to alienate Trump, who could be inspired to run as an independent candidate if he is shunned by the Republican Party. The dinner meeting featured "some of the capital's leading Republican elected officials, strategists and lobbyists," according to the Times....
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when the hell did Trump say he only has a 20% chance of winning?
If it is him -vs- HilLIARy he will win in a landslide
This is my husband’s biggest concern; that Trump would eventually go third party and draw millions of votes away from a good candidate like Cruz.
This is why I am thinking long and hard here in Open Primary Michigan which ballot to take. Should I squirrel the Dems and vote for Bernie or some other leftie wacko besides Hillary. OR, should I take a Repub ballot and help The Donald Save America???
More important, not alienate the base.
But that's not what the GOPe is doing. The RINOs are all attacking him with liberal codewords like "divisive" (Rubio).
I have friends who are union style old school Democrats from Cleveland, straight up blue collar types. When I say they are Democrats, that is true in a sense. I don't know that they've ever voted. They both have said they will vote this election if Trump is truly running.
Trump already addressed this anyway saying he would not be a spoiler.
He isn’t going to run against Cruz but he can self finance indefinitely which is a fact that all candidates need to start strategizing for.
Or maybe vote Ted Cruz who is side-by-side with Don Trump and has a better chance at the nomination?
Trump would even win in a three way, Hillary-Yeb-Trump race.
Yeb Bush comes in third.
I don’t see Trump going third party unless the GOP tries to Mississippi him.
Not that that won’t.
Trump isn’t running as a third candidate. Right now he is leading the GOP field.
Making up hypothetical scenarios is a cheap shot. Because the candidates Davis support could go to a third world country and lead an army in an invasion against the U.S.
RE: Perot 2.0
Perot was MOST responsible for getting Bill Clinton elected in 1992.
Clinton only got 43% of the vote. Papa Bush got 38%, and get this — Perot got 19% !!
Many pollsters believe that he siphoned votes out of REPUBLICANS.
If Trump is today’s Perot, then (God forbid) we’ll have a repeat of 1992 with ANOTHER Clinton in Power.
"So I will tell you I have many people that have asked me to go independent, and I think I would do very well if I went independent," he said. But, he added, "That's not my thinking. My thinking is to run as a Republican."
Is there something more current that says absolutely no?
I doubt he would do that against Cruz, but it would be more likely if the GOPe rams Jeb Bush down the throat of the Conservative base.
Nope, it was Mr. "Read My Lips" that got Clinton elected.
The Establishment hates Cruz almost as much as they hate Trump. If Cruz starts to gain ground they will turn on him too.
I’d vote Trump, 3rd Party, before I voted for John Ellis or some other RINO.
That may be, so long as he doesn’t put on his tinfoil hat and start scampering after conspiracy theories. There is also the world class misogynistic comments he has been known to drop like gas in an elevator.
You mean to say that even if Perot did not ran, Clinton would still have beaten Bush?
I highly doubt that. If it were TAXES most people were concerned with, then Clinton INCREASED taxes before the GOP 1994 takeover of Congress.
[The RINOs are all attacking him with liberal codewords like “divisive”]
They are shrill. The Donald doesn’t need them, their in ‘influence,’ or their money.
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