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Talk grows of replacing Trump at GOP convention
Yahoo News ^ | June 8, 2016 | Jon Ward

Posted on 06/08/2016 9:48:06 PM PDT by detective

There is growing talk on the right of replacing Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president, and even chatter about a possible alternative.

As Trump has floundered over the past week after questioning a federal judge’s impartiality because of his Mexican ancestry, Trump’s critics within the GOP have stepped up their efforts to thwart him. Some anti-Trump conservatives, who have tried for months to recruit an independent candidate, have begun looking more closely at attempting to persuade delegates at next month’s GOP convention to nominate someone other than Trump.

“There is a rapidly moving train toward the convention to try to obstruct it at the convention. Trump in the last 72 hours has given hope to people who think it’s now possible,” said Erick Erickson, a conservative radio talk show host and one of Trump’s most resolute critics.

“He’s starting to give everybody hope that he should be stopped at the convention,” Erickson said, though he cautioned that if Trump “cleans up his act then I think that hope will go away.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bs; convention; gope; laraza; media; republicans; rinos; romney; traitors; trump
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To: Patriot Babe

I noticed Ivanka also...her expression was not the joy you’d expect. We all knew it could get ugly but it’s probably going to be even worse. Trillions of dollars of funny money are at stake and the globalists are used to getting what they want. DJT is a very brave man...and so is his family.

Remember what they did to Sarah and her family, including parents? And after all that I think she was told in no uncertain terms to cut it out or else.


61 posted on 06/09/2016 12:23:32 AM PDT by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: detective

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/opinion/sunday/are-neocons-getting-ready-to-ally-with-hillary-clinton.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

Notice the publication date.


62 posted on 06/09/2016 12:43:05 AM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Hugh Hewitt has always been a panty waist. He has a very small audience on the Salem Broadcasitng channel. Usually his show is on 1:00 AM or 2: 00 AM.
on a weak sister channel.

He and Michael Medved are bunk mates.


63 posted on 06/09/2016 12:48:37 AM PDT by ChiMark (America no more)
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To: Reno89519
These Wisconsin Republicans—Ryan, Walker, and Priebus—are scheming.

So is Paul Nehlen.

64 posted on 06/09/2016 1:25:05 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: detective

Lol...I’m so happy poor Erick is eating crow.


65 posted on 06/09/2016 2:26:15 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: detective

Why are we still hearing the same inanities from the same nonentities who were discredited last year?


66 posted on 06/09/2016 2:29:13 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are at that point, where we stand with Leonidas, or slither with Ephialtes.)
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To: detective

Erickson and Hewitt should be arrested and sequestered
at the GOP convention
as the criminals they are, working with Cruz
and Bishop RomneyCARE against voters.


67 posted on 06/09/2016 2:32:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: OldArmy52

The RNC stand revealed as an arm of the UniParty, whose purpose is to stop any real opposition to the Dem agenda.


68 posted on 06/09/2016 2:36:18 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Ancesthntr

I think the GOP is dead anyway. They have learned the wrong lesson form Trumps victory in the primaries. They think he is a one off and its back to business as usual after this election. Wrong.


69 posted on 06/09/2016 2:55:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: detective

If you bass turds do this...


70 posted on 06/09/2016 3:08:17 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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To: detective

So, what is the mechanism for doing this? I assume it would be an early convention vote to change the rules. The question of where Trump stands with actual delegates would obviously be of supreme importance.


71 posted on 06/09/2016 3:14:15 AM PDT by John W (Under One Year And Counting!)
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To: detective
The Republican party is in total panic mode. They will (and can) do everything to get their own stooge into the presidental office...and that includes every lowdown scheme and effort to disgrace Trump before his supporters.

I sincerely believe if the Republican party sabotages Trumps campaign that it will be the beginning of an armed civil war here in America.

72 posted on 06/09/2016 3:17:48 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: detective

MSM trying to help the dems.


73 posted on 06/09/2016 3:19:21 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: John W

Well yesterday Hugh Hewitt, one of the prime movers behind this idea, was saying that the RNC “must get together and change the rules so that the first two ballots are just advisory”.

So evidently Weaselman Hugh believes that Ryan and McConnell and their RNC cronies can do it that way.

How they expect to live long enough to enjoy this elitist crime against American voters is another matter.


74 posted on 06/09/2016 3:19:28 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
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To: detective
Remember there is fight going on in the RNC and the DNC. It is all about power. It is not about Trump or Hillary or Cruz or Bernie but instead it is about who controls the Uniparty.

Normally those in charge of the Uniparty have already chosen who will be those running for POTUS by now but the electorate threw them a curve and now their power base is crumbling.

75 posted on 06/09/2016 3:19:49 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Diogenesis

The first item Hewitt mentioned this morning is that within the last hour he had been dis-invited and then re-invited to the Convention. (who the hell re-invited him?)

This over his hysteria yesterday demanding that the RNC conspire to change the Convention rules to deny Trump the nomination.

So he sounds a bit worried this morning, and he’s now busily insisting that he’s not #neverTrump even though he’s helping lead that charge.

I’d love to see Weaselman Hugh get banned from attending the Convention, he’d have to try to cover it from across the street with the Soros mob.


76 posted on 06/09/2016 3:27:30 AM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
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To: detective

Talk grows of the GOP committing suicide.


77 posted on 06/09/2016 3:43:52 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: detective

I thought this opposition was from the right and then I see that Erickson is involved.


78 posted on 06/09/2016 4:07:50 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Lex rex)
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To: central_va
"I think the GOP is dead anyway. They have learned the wrong lesson form Trumps victory in the primaries. They think he is a one off and its back to business as usual after this election. Wrong."

This. This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.This.

79 posted on 06/09/2016 4:19:30 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (PS - Vote Trump. Vote Coal.)
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To: detective

Erickson, Beck and Hewitt = talk is growing?

THEY may be growing, from a steady diet of powdered donuts and cheetoes, but the talk is the exact same.

Good old Yahoo news. All propaganda, all the time.


80 posted on 06/09/2016 4:21:27 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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