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Ben Sasse on not voting for Trump: “This is in some ways an 1860 moment”
Hot Air ^ | March 1, 2016 | Allahpundit

Posted on 03/01/2016 10:31:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

I'm starting to think this guy might not vote for Trump.

Skip to 8:50 of the clip below for the interview. You already know where he stands on Trump if you read his Facebook post this morning, but the video's worth watching for a few reasons. One: Although Sasse acknowledges that Super Tuesday and March 15th will be "significant" in deciding the nominee, the unmistakable sense here is that it's going to be Trump and conservatives need to begin preparing for that reality. Is that a fair conclusion to draw? Given this AP report of early voting in Florida, I'm thinking ... yeah.

The Florida primary is weeks away, but tens of thousands of voters headed to the polls Monday for early voting in this critical contest that could make-or-break the presidential aspirations of native son, Sen. Marco Rubio...

Absentee and early voting are popular in Florida. Projections show that more than half of those voting in the primary will have cast their ballots before the March 15 primary. So far, more than 303,000 Republican voters and more than 261,000 Democratic voters have submitted their absentee ballots, according to University of Florida political scientist Daniel Smith, who is tracking statewide absentee ballot returns...

Smith said almost 44 percent of the absentee Republican votes so far are from people who did not vote in 2012.

Trump is comfortably ahead in every poll of Florida right now and it's practically a given that he'll clean up among formerly disaffected voters who have decided to participate this year. That means he's already banking votes and building a lead in Florida that Rubio will somehow need to overcome on March 15th....

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


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To: Mr. Mojo
Well, look at it this way:

If DT gets the nomination wrapped up and enough people decide to stay home on election day instead of heading to the polls to preserve their "principles" again, no need to worry. I am absolutely positive that 8 years of Hitlery or "The Burn" would be much more desirable than 4 years of Donald Trump. I am sure that America will THRIVE under the significantly more principled leadership of Hitlery or Bernie...

Do I really need the sarcasm tag?

41 posted on 03/02/2016 11:04:13 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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