Posted on 04/04/2016 6:48:46 AM PDT by xzins
Donald Trump continued his war with party bosses Sunday, once again saying that he wouldn’t rule out a third-party run if he failed to secure the GOP nomination and demanding that rival John Kasich drop out of the race.
“We’re going to have to see how I was treated. I’m going to have to see how I was treated. Very simple,” Trump said on “Fox News Sunday” when asked if he would categorically rule out running as a third-party independent candidate if he failed to win his party’s nomination. “It’s not a question of win or lose. It’s a question of treatment. I want to be treated fair.”
The comments came just days after Trump, Kasich and Ted Cruz backed out of pledges to support the GOP’s eventual nominee. Following the walk-backs, Trump met privately with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in an apparent effort to smooth things over, but on Sunday, the hot-and-cold relationship appeared on the verge of fracturing once again.
“Those kinds of comments, I think, have consequences,” Priebus said on ABC’s “This Week” of Trump’s latest remarks. “When you make those kinds of comments, and you want people to fall in line for you, it makes it more difficult.”
In yet another interview, Priebus admitted he wasn’t sure whether he felt the former businessman was the party’s best candidate.
“I don’t know,” Priebus said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Listen, I don’t worry about who is the strongest candidate.”
Further suggesting Trump was undeterred by the criticism were demands he made during a rally in Wisconsin — whose pivotal primary on Tuesday will put for up grabs another 96 delegates — that Kasich drop out of the GOP race.
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You mean the same GOP establishment that’s managed to marginalize themselves and alienate their base while the Democrats were being exposed as criminals and socialists? The same party elites that manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like some team of amazing reverse Joe Montanas? The same brain trust who whine about expanding the party and then immediately attack full force the ONLY candidate they’ve had in a generation who can actually do that?
If Ted Cruz is representing constitutional conservatism...if that’s what constitutional conservatism is supposed to be now, attacking the voters, open borders, anti-American trade deals and slimy, preachy, holier-than-thou rhetoric that ends in loss after loss after loss... Count me out.
You seem to forget that Americans are extremely angry at the Republican Party for precisely doing this kind of traitorous political machine manipulation to us for 30 years. If the GOPe does this again they must be punished, severely. The GOP should be hounded into the wilderness as a political party never to return. The term “Republican” will be a byword for betrayal and cowardice.
Bingo we have a winner.
Trump needs to choose someone established, respected, qualified, and able to run a strong campaign. It should be someone who folks would see as a person who would be a good President. An excellent choice will boost the meme that one reason to vote for Trump is that these are the kinds of choices he will make. Perot did not do that.
I’ll also confirm it from my part of FL. Activists are livid, and even casual Republican voters are pissed.
Americans don’t always expect to win, but they expect the game to be played fairly, and even people who don’t pay that much attention to politics have figured out that the GOPe is rigging the game.
All the pro-Cruz people are either “useful idiots” or wormtongues. They are either stupid or willing participants in the con against the American people. This goes for Creepers (Cruz-Freepers) as well.
If he's not treated fairly and decides to run anyway I'm with him no matter what.
Did you choose the Freeper name “Brilliant” for the same reason a bald man calls himself “Curly?”
There is no such rule. That was a rule adopted at the 2012 convention. Each convention adopts its own rules.
I don’t like just throwing my vote away.
I want to see a solid plan.
Actually, it is a rule.
It can be CHANGED at this convention.
You were probably spiritually “sick” before joining this forum if you were a GOPe hack. When your beliefs are false the truth is painful. Take your medicine try to see the truth brother.
How about the “Independance Party?”
Trump brought me to the R party
If it wasn’t for Trump, I would have never even heard of FR (found this site following a story about Trump just before Iowa and signed up)
Trump brought me to grab an R primary ballot (the last time I did was for “read my lips” Bush).
If Trump goes 3rd party, I go third party with him.
Don’t tell me that by doing so it’s my fault Hillary wins, that’s BS.
It’s the GOP’s fault for campaigning harder against their frontrunner than they did against Obama.
It’s the GOP’s fault for treating their front runner like he had a terminal case of the cooties.
Trump is MY candidate, and if the GOP doesn’t want MY candidate then they don’t want MY vote.
Screw ‘em all and their monkey shines.
Nope. Rules adopted at one convention do not automatically carry forward to the next. Each convention must adopt its own rules.
Exactly.
The Washington establishment is all twisted over the peasant uprisings in both parties.
Agreed call his bluff. If Trump thought he could win third party he would have run as one, like he did last time. He came to the GOP because he knows it’s the only chance he has.
At this point I’m not sure the general election is winnable no matter who the GOP runs. There’s been so much hate stirred up between Cruz and Trump supporters that large swaths of either side will never vote for the other. If the party disavows the primary results and runs a Bush or whoever, neither side will turnout to vote.
When push comes to shove Hillary is going to get Bernie’s supporters, and there’s little chance that Obama will allow her to be indicted. You can add to that minorities, an ever-growing part of the electorate, particularly given our porous southern border, and the advantage she’ll have in women will also be formidable.
Overall it’s a terrible waste of what should have been a great year. The dems have low enthusiasm, eight years of Obama have depressed the country, and their candidate is the weakest we’ve seen since Mondale. We may have pissed away another opportunity and lost the Supreme Court for a generation. Not to mention that losing on immigration could create a permanent majority for the Dems. If you think the party compromises now, wait until that happens.
Right on. Cruz supporters are a thick headed bunch.Sick of ‘em.
LOLO, Trump is the clear liberal.
Spent his whole life supporting Dems like Obama and Clinton.
That's why he keeps flipping his positions so frequently.
A con man only knows to guess what those he is conning wants to hear, like Trump does.
But since he doesn't understand it, it leads to fiascos like his statements on abortion.
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