[Mariner]

"there is no Republican candidate in this presidential election"

Trump won the majority of primary voting Republicans and a huge majority of Repu8blican delegates at the National Convention.

He and his people are the Republican Party.

Perhaps you should find a party more to your liking.

[Alberta's Child]

Go back to the New York City mayor's race of 2001, when Democrat Michael Bloomberg switched his registration to Republican just so he could win the nomination without facing off against other (more liberal) Democrats in a primary battle.

Donald Trump has basically replicated this on a national level.

I have no qualms about this. Once the Republican Party trotted out a series of dipsh!ts named Bush, Dole, and McCain as the party's standard-bearers over the last 25 years, they deserved exactly what they got.