Posted on 12/09/2015 5:38:14 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
A new poll indicates that 68% of my supporters would vote for me if I departed the GOP & ran as an independent. https://t.co/ztP5d2ctZl — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 8, 2015
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Ridiculous fantasy. Trump is a Patriot.
Of course it is the plan. It’s the go-to plan in every election if the splitter candidate tactic should ever fail.
That splitter thing is failing. Big.
TRUMP won’t leave the R Party though. The knots are tied already against anyone starting up an Independent or THIRD PARTY run, at this hour.
I see that too. A three way race burps up a TRUMP victory, because he has broad spectrum support no one else has, including Hillary.
Trump has a Trump card -— the GOPe needs him more than he needs them. If they f### with him, he goes third party and splits the vote. Hillary will win with 43% like her rapist/traitorous husband. Trump would like to win because he really does love the country and believes he can save it. But his life will go on if he does not win. If the GOP loses to Hillary, she will have a 6-3 Supreme Court, write unbelievable executive orders, shut down talk radio, have 5-10 million new RAT voters who are now here illegally, and destroy the GOP. 900 FBI file? Wait until she has 9 million and also controls the IRS.
It is a game of chicken and I do not believe Trump is going to blink.
After hearing today that the RNC may pull some shenanigans at the convention. Hannity said today he had it from a good source that they will pull in Romney. If that happens Trump will probably go Ind., I think Trump knew this as well and that is why he is leaving his options open. I hate this, but if it is what they are going to do, I will vote TRUMP.
He wants to stay Republican, but we just can't take what the RNC has planned, if they do. Everyone I talk to is voting Trump.
No, but it’s your choice. You support the the GOPe, which means that you support illegal immigration. Rubio supports open borders, which is insanity. Shame on you.
The GOPe is just as evil and treasonous as the democrats. Wake up!!!
Your statement strikes upon a MAJOR truth.>p? Trump has everyone who does not support him very fearful.
I believe Trump will be even a BIGGER breath of fresh air for America than Reagan was.
Not even that genius. Ross Perot— the only way Bill could win. They know Hillary will have a really hard time reaching 40% in a general election, and with a third party she won’t even need that. (Didn’t Bill get something like 37%?)
People are saying Trump will win in a three party race. Don’t believe it. With Hillary bound to get about 40%, the remaining 60% will at best be split evenly. The Clinton’s know this.
If so, Trumps the better by an order of magnitude.
How about, if Trump runs as a third party — which O’Reilly tried 3 times tonight to get him to comment on. Only responded “if they treat me fairly”.
O’Reilly came after again saying stuff like “you do realize Hillary would win”. Trump still wouldn’t bite, but then Trump almost whispered and said as an aside and quickly moved on was “that may not be”. A whisper heard over O’Reilly? Amazing.
Just vote for him for the Republican Primary. I’m sure by now even if he was a Clinton plan, the brass ring could be for himself.
I am surrounded by people that will not go third party, and then there is the group that will go third party Trump. This is Hillary's dream and with her ~ 40% she'll get in the necessary states she'll win. The math is that simple if you look at it. No third party! I would think after eight years of Obama we would have learned something. Hillary is more liberal than Bill and will surround herself with people we don't want. No, not the same as a RINO. She is lying, socialist scum and there is no one worse on the Republican side. We are talking the Clinton's and their cronies here. If you really want Trump third party go support Bernie Sanders right now because I think that's the only way a third party candidate will win. I will vote for the Republican nominee. I don't think any of them hate the country. I do think Hillary and her ilk do.I will never forget the 90's, and Bill with all of his BS is the saner Clinton!
Why should he go third party? He’s leading the republican field. This is shades of Reagan vs Bush. Nothing succeeds like success. Let’s see what the elections bring. I predict it will be Trump and Cruz all the way. If these idiots continue to raise money to buy off a few delagates let them, but Trump has some heavy hitting repubicans in his court like that little fat guy.
Trump pulls as many dems as repubs.
Do it Donald!!!!!!! I’m switching to independent....I’m ashamed to be with the Republican Party.....
As an “Independent”, he could get 39 percent and win like James Buckley did in NY in 1970.
Taft finished third in 1912, and then Charles “Evasive” Hughes just narrowly lost in 1916. The establishment isn’t going any where for long. It’s the American people who are perpetually “out to lunch”.
He could get 39% of repubs.
He would also get 25% of dems...unlike buckley or perot.
That is a damnable lie.
I’m living in bizarro world. This doesn’t even seem real. Yes I will promise to leave FR forever if Trump is elected. Will you promise to leave FR forever after Hillary is elected?
“I’d rather see our failing country go under with an avowed Marxist at the helm than watch it go under with a Progressive-lite at the helm.”
This is beyond comprehension to me. You have totally lost your mind if you actually believe this.
“Remember Mississippi ?
The professional apparatus of the Republican Party are signaling their intent to do exactly what we predicted they would do. Trump will win the primary, and the GOPe will split the party to run an additional candidate in the general election.
It’s not Trump going third party – It’s the establishment GOP (GOPe) intending to go third party. They are planning a modified version of the Mississippi Strategy from 2014.”
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