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Donald Trump Floats Idea of a Third-Party Run Again
ABC News ^ | Feb 15, 2016 | BRAD MIELKE

Posted on 02/15/2016 12:48:15 PM PST by justlittleoleme

At a town hall today in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, Donald Trump floated the idea -- without explicitly threatening to do so -- that he may run as an independent candidate.

Trump attacked the Republican National Committee, saying it "better get its act together" and it "does a terrible job." Trump said he believes the RNC treated him unfairly.

Trump also went off on the crowd that booed him during Saturday night's GOP debate in South Carolina: "Look at it, that was a wealthy room."

"The whole room was made of special interests and donors, which is a disgrace from the RNC," Trump said. "The RNC better get its act together because, you know, I signed a pledge. The pledge isn’t being honored by the RNC."

Trump signed an RNC pledge in September, agreeing not to run a third-party candidacy and to support the eventual Republican nominee.

"I signed a pledge, but it’s a double-edged pledge. As far as I’m concerned, they’re in default on their pledge," Trump said of the RNC.

Trump also spent several minutes hitting Sen. Ted Cruz on dirty campaign tactics, calling him the most dishonest guy in politics he’s ever met.

He’s criticized Cruz “holding up the Bible,” and says he’s beating Cruz when it comes to evangelical voters.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donaldperot; election; perot; politics; thirdparty; trump2016; trumpertantrum; trumplethinskin
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To: duffee

Yeah, he should never defend himself or his positions, he should just let others attack him, lie, whatever and roll over.

Just like regular Republicans in deecee, eh?


201 posted on 02/15/2016 3:52:21 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue Ht the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: little jeremiah

“Just like regular Republicans in deecee, eh?”

Might as well rollover as lie, whine, cry and make idle threats.


202 posted on 02/15/2016 4:00:17 PM PST by duffee (CRUZ 2016)
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To: little jeremiah

To me the stacking of the debate audience to deliberately throw Trump off his game was beyond abhorrent, EVERYONE knew Trump would be taking incoming from ALL candidates and that is JUST FINE, however to throw a JEB!!! Cheer leading squad into the audience is just going to make Trumps support go stronger!!! WE are ALL fighting the know it all elites and this just proves to ALL of us what SOB’s the GOP-e REALLY are!!!! Trump’s support comes from ALOT of folks who have NEVER voted before because of CRAP like this!!! MANY, MANY, truck drivers, small business people, tanning salon owners, coal miners....... Give me a break folks GOP-e is hanging themselves!!!!!


203 posted on 02/15/2016 4:03:02 PM PST by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Kit cat

The hatred for GOP grow daily. They are looking like dishonest, lying cheaters to more and more people.

There are days when I do wish Trump would run 3rd party and take a lot of Rep and Dem votes. It think he could easily win.


204 posted on 02/15/2016 4:28:10 PM PST by slipper (Adapt and overcome. God, Family, Country)
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To: orinoco

Have, don’t like him, trust him even less.

Not falling for his carnival barker tough talk when I look at 2 decades of his past positions.


205 posted on 02/15/2016 4:31:10 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Company Man

He changes so much it’s hard to keep up.


206 posted on 02/15/2016 4:45:52 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: xzins

Always, position A, top feature.


207 posted on 02/15/2016 5:15:37 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Got it. I’ll check them out when I get to computer. I’ve been on this cell all day, and I’m slow and sloppy with the keys.


208 posted on 02/15/2016 5:17:54 PM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
So why did Trump say that he was considering Cruz, who was born in Canada, for VP? Was he blowing smoke as usual?

Actually it is a pretty good move he gets double duty out of the issue.

I want him as my VP so we need to get the NBC issue settled once and for all so we can remove this issue from the democrats. Curry favor with the Conservatives and at the same time damage Cruz's chances in the primaries by pointing out to the voter that Cruz is not a real American.

You may not like it but as a political move it is pretty clever. Whether it pays off or not is what we will have to wait to see.

Trump was my last pick before he was my first pick. Cruz was my first pick before he was my second pick.

209 posted on 02/15/2016 5:29:11 PM PST by itsahoot (1st impression. Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. VoteTrump)
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To: TontoKowalski
I was a true believer, and I think this is the root of my sense of betrayal and anger at the whole establishment. All it has done since then is grow, grow, grow.

I began to have serious doubts about the whole operation when GW allowed trucks to flow to Syria for several months.

210 posted on 02/15/2016 5:45:51 PM PST by itsahoot (1st impression. Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. VoteTrump)
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To: BruceS
Trump says that his legal experts say that Cruz is not a NBC. Was Trump lying then or is he lying now?

Different lawyers give different opinions that is the mother's milk of the profession.

211 posted on 02/15/2016 6:07:49 PM PST by itsahoot (1st impression. Trump is a fumble mouthed blowhard that can't speak in complete sentences. VoteTrump)
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To: TheStickman

Take off your Pollyanna trump glasses he specifically said the pledge is a double edged sword... there is no other way to interpret that unless you are a Clinton. Stop defending the indefensible, if he can’t man up and play nice and unite the party than the only WALL he will be building is the one that splits the Republican party and he will never be President nor will any Republican then it won’t matter one bit if Hillary or Bernie shoots someone in the middle of times square they will be President....


212 posted on 02/15/2016 6:21:26 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Obama has destroyed the office of the presidency.)
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To: Kit cat

Trump the wall guy is building a nice on smack in the middle of the Republican party.... doesn’t he realize he can’t win a GE with you sycophants alone.


213 posted on 02/15/2016 6:23:46 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Obama has destroyed the office of the presidency.)
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To: little jeremiah

No he can defend himself no problems with that but attacking GWB for 911 is something only a radical leftist would do, or did you approve of that, or somehow try to defend that? Trump proved to me he is no Patriot and proved to me that he is an egomaniac, please one egomaniac in the oval office in my lifetime is enough...


214 posted on 02/15/2016 6:27:08 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Obama has destroyed the office of the presidency.)
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To: driftdiver

Trump running for Panderer in chief interesting when the political winds change who will he pander too after lemmings of the right anoint him ? Donald the Chameleon, Liberal, Conservative, Moderate, Independent, talk about pale pastels....


215 posted on 02/15/2016 6:31:00 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Obama has destroyed the office of the presidency.)
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To: slipper

and you are a fool some of us are old enough to remember the effects of Ross Perot and Trump ain’t nuthin’ but Ross Perot with an ear job and a hair weave; equally skillful in pointing out problems but just as lacking in specifics as to how to solve them, and just nutty enough so as to be unelectable further assuring a Democrat victory. Good luck with that... But he said he would have Mexico build a wall, the wall, the wall, the wall only wall your getting is the one that splits the Republican party in half...


216 posted on 02/15/2016 6:36:31 PM PST by Typical_Whitey (Obama has destroyed the office of the presidency.)
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To: Typical_Whitey

Emotionalism is no way to figure who would be the best next president. I suggest you cool down a bit and just read and listen to what the candidates say and write. Just a thought - blood pressure, and all that.


217 posted on 02/15/2016 6:54:40 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue Ht the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: justlittleoleme

Be a wrecking ball to the Republicans, then exit and run as an independent.


The GOPe needs a wrecking ball. They are killin’ us.


218 posted on 02/15/2016 7:23:44 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Duchess47

In case you aren’t noticing, Trump is leading by 20 pts. Is the crapstorm hurting him?

Fine, address inaccuracies by other campaigns, but constant harping about the boogeyman of the week “not being nice to him” is petty sh*t and you as well as I know it is.


219 posted on 02/16/2016 1:24:34 AM PST by ScottinVA (If you're not enraged...why?)
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To: Typical_Whitey

I remember very well. Practice makes perfect. You may very well eat your own words.


220 posted on 02/16/2016 5:50:55 AM PST by slipper (Adapt and overcome. God, Family, Country)
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