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Will the GOP Mount a Third-Party Challenge to Trump?
Politico ^ | Jeff Greenfield

Posted on 12/20/2015 5:34:38 PM PST by TigerClaws

Donald Trump may have eased some Republican fears Tuesday night when he declared his intention to stay inside the party. But if their angst has been temporarily eased at the prospect of what he would do if he loses, they still face a far more troubling, and increasingly plausible, question.

What happens to the party if he wins?

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/donald-trump-2016-third-party-bid-213449#ixzz3uunF2pRX

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


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To: PAR35

I would not want to be a part of the totalitarian elitists. Judgement day will probably not go well for them. Yhey hate people with ability, generate crimes and put them into gulags where they are prisoners and are worked to death to benefit a scum society with the elitist government taking, what, a 75% cut.


41 posted on 12/20/2015 6:40:16 PM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: TigerClaws

The Uniparty has spent a lot of time and effort in the lat decade to make sure that no 3rd party candidate would ever have a chance to scare them again... so it would be sweet justice to see them opt for that huge hill to climb... but it will never happen. The brokered convention is their safety-valve.


42 posted on 12/20/2015 6:44:35 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: PAR35
They don't care if they win at that point. As long as they can put down the conservative opposition, they don't care if the democrat wins. They won't have to split off many votes to guarantee a Hilary or Sanders win.

But they care very, very much about their own jobs. That's what this is all about. If we primaried every GOPe running, especially Ryan, they would be spread too thin.

Newcomers running with Trump can take GOPe and even purple areas, because Trump will have coattails. Trump pulls a significant number of blacks our way. Run black republicans that stand with Trump on immigration in close districts with heavy black populations. We can take districts we normally can't.

Then let's see who gets elected speaker next congress.

43 posted on 12/20/2015 6:47:02 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer

Name names please. Start with the current speaker.


44 posted on 12/20/2015 6:54:08 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Vince Ferrer; All

Reality check:

The Chamber of Commerce has committed 100 million dollars to defeat ‘Tea Party’ candidates around the country:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/01/chamber-of-commerce-to-spend-100-million-to-destroy-tea-party/


45 posted on 12/20/2015 6:56:15 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: CottonBall

“What alternate reality are you living in, LOL!”

He’s evidently in that alternative universe called Anti-Trump. He is like the Yebbito supporters in that he cannot accept the fact that his choice isn’t the choice of most of the rest of us. Either that or he’s a Clintonite troll.


46 posted on 12/20/2015 6:58:11 PM PST by vette6387
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To: TigerClaws

Let’s start our own Chamber alternative.


47 posted on 12/20/2015 6:59:30 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: TigerClaws

And Carl Icahn has a $150 million PAC to counter their chump change...lol


48 posted on 12/20/2015 7:11:57 PM PST by Despot of the Delta (It's time for Trump to become Vlad the Impaler. I want Progressive/Globalist/Establishment heads)
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To: HarleyLady27

I think a conservative needs to mount a third challenge to Paul Ryan. If Ryan then loses to Democrat it would at least clear the field to elect a now Speaker.


49 posted on 12/20/2015 7:14:08 PM PST by inchworm
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To: amnestynone

Why wouldn’t they ? The leftist party establishment has been running interference for Democrat nominees since 1912.


50 posted on 12/20/2015 7:17:39 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: inchworm

If Ryan is defeated, Kevin McCarthy, another RINO punk, moves up. Ditto if Zero’s Bitch Mitch gets booted, he gets replaced by RINO hack John Cornyn.


51 posted on 12/20/2015 7:18:58 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: TigerClaws

Politico. Ignore.


52 posted on 12/20/2015 7:20:57 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Vince Ferrer

I agree.


53 posted on 12/20/2015 7:24:01 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I am not from that district. According to the Secretary of State of Wisconsin website, , we have until June 1 to find a primary candidate.


54 posted on 12/20/2015 7:33:25 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: TigerClaws

This idea reminds me of Anderson running against Reagan.


55 posted on 12/20/2015 7:33:53 PM PST by mhx
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To: TigerClaws

They would not dare do this!


56 posted on 12/20/2015 7:47:06 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: TigerClaws

If the GOPee gets some third party RINO to run then the RINO will end up in the White House!

It will split the electoral votes.

No one will get enough to win outright.

It goes to the house and the RINO is chosen.

Trump would very likely win the most electoral votes with Hillary coming in second and the RINO a very distant third.

Chaos will ensue... It will be the RINO as pres and Hillary as veep...lol


57 posted on 12/20/2015 7:51:29 PM PST by Bobalu (Even if I could take off, I could never get past the tractor beam!)
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To: napscoordinator

“...And if Trump was so comfortable winning going 3rd party, he should win on the GOP ticket while Cruz runs third party....”
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Are you delusional? There is no way that Cruz runs 3rd party...do you just make this crap us?


58 posted on 12/20/2015 8:03:28 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruz or lose! Do TG & Boogieman have to be asses every day?)
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To: House Atreides
...do you just make this crap us ?(sic)

It is an art.

Some here are good at it, most generally suck at it.

59 posted on 12/20/2015 8:06:21 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: House Atreides

It was an example you fool. I understand that you have medical issues which is why I am so patient with you but I really wish you weren’t quite as dumb as you present. You act like a stupid know it all and don’t know a dang thing. What a imbecile you are unfortunately. I guess I could have used Rubio so your stupid brain wouldn’t have been so confused. Lord I have patience of a Saint with you.


60 posted on 12/20/2015 9:00:12 PM PST by napscoordinator
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