Posted on 04/17/2016 8:57:03 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
Businessman and Republican activist Carl Paladino in a radio interview Monday said Donald Trump “absolutely” should launch an independent bid for president if he is denied the Republican nomination at the July convention in Cleveland.
“Absolutely,” Paladino said in an interview with WCNY’s The Capitol Pressroom. “If cheated, you fight back. That would be the end of the Republican Party, by the way.”
Paladino, a Buffalo real-estate developer and prominent Trump supporter in New York, was the GOP nominee for governor in 2010. In the interview, Paladino blasted what so far has been a whisper campaign to potentially nominate House Speaker Paul Ryan at July convention should the remaining Republican candidates not hit the required number of delegates to clinch the nomination.
That’s a Cruzer, complaining Priebus is not totally insane.
The average Cruzer, believes Rush Limbaugh & Priebus are 100% in the tank for Trump.
Priebus only fairness concern is that Little Reince gets a wedgie from Trump.
I’ll be here, baby. Can’t wait.
I encourage all Trumpbots to encourage Trump to go run 3rd party. That would be about as well thought out as his run as a Republican.
TV ratings for this years GOP convention are gonna be off the charts. If Trump is ahead by millions of votes compared to any other candidate, and is denied nomination, it will be death knell for the GOP and it’s elites. Democrats will again rule as the dominant majority for 40 years like they did before Newt was Speaker.
Let’s see how smug you are tomorrow night.
The mean ol GOP changed the date, Trumpbots vote on Wednesday.
Hallucinate often?
The GOP has reneged on that.
Big time.
All bets are off.
I’m from Texas and I wouldn’t vote for Cruz, and I know a lot of Texans who do not like somebody coming down here from Canada and posing as a Texan to win an election. I wouldn’t count Texas out.
Cruz doesn’t seem to understand.
1237 is for the little people, not for Jeb at home under his palm tree.
If TRUMP goes down, Cruz will get the Mississippi Treatment he’s been so richly dishing out himself, with the assist of all that Wall Street globalist money. The GOPE can’t stand him. They fear TRUMP.
It’s shocking for Americans to see Cartel Cruz and Hillary cause such a stink fest at convention with stealing delegates in his case and leaning on delegates in her case.
It’s an eye opener for America. Two pigs in a pen.
Should hell open and Cruz pull this scam off, he will be the first impotent emperor with no clothes, that the globe will have ever experienced. A US president that nobody voted for. Let Colorado and Wyoming have him. A good fit.
Great post, great link, really great story. Cruz errs to think if TRUMP is taken out, that he gets anything but squat. LOL!
The damn troublemaker will deserve it.
http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/trump-kasich-supporters-debate-gun-policy-stances/135756700
“Hi, I’m Carl Paladino. I’m here to talk to you about John Kasich. The Ohio version of Andrew Cuomo,” Paladino began.
Yeah, I'd kind of rather just get it over with. Have the split, and then the Trump supporters and the rest of us can see how the numbers break down moving forward. Unfortunately, it's really too late for him to do that.
Although to be honest, I don't think many people actually expected him to follow it anyway if he didn't win.
>How did the GOP renege on that pledge? At the time Trump signed that pledge, all the rules for the primaries and caucuses were set. He either knew those rules, or negligently failed to get educated on them. Either way, following rules that predated his signing of the pledge isn’t a breach.
>>We did it: #NEVERTRUMP
Right there.
It’s been a week since the CO GOP tweeted Never Trump. How is that “investigation” they promised coming along? Not a word about it as far as I can tell.
Well, quite a few of my fellow Texans will never vote for Trump. Without engaging in the sophomoric name-calling emblematic of Mr. T, I will just say his temperment and demeanor is not what I want in a president.
Ted Cruz won as an underdog to win his Senate seat, he won the Texas primary, and he will win the general in Texas going away should he be the nominee.
Mr. Priebus‘ former loyalists say they have reluctantly concluded that forces at the RNC will stop at virtually nothing to keep the door open to the nomination of Ohio Gov. John Kasich at the July convention – or, as some skeptics fear, some “white knight” who moderates claim will have broader voter appeal this fall than either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, the two top-delegate winners, have shown in most polls so far.
Needless to say I'm shocked to hear this. Shocked.
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