Posted on 06/21/2016 8:19:16 AM PDT by Taxman
Betrayed! 1,000 delegates to ditch Trump?
Just when it appeared that the movement to dump Donald Trump as the GOP presidential candidate was defeated, it looks like it has come roaring back.
And this time, it may have more momentum than ever.
As many as 1,000 delegates to the Republican National Convention may have interest in a new push to ditch Trump and allow delegates to choose another candidate.
The new movement is calling itself “Free the Delegates,” and it’s rallying like-minded Republicans to prepare for a fight.
But critics argue that it is a petulant coup that would set aside the will of millions of voters who backed Trump.
According to insiders, the Free the Delegates movement plans to organize thousands of delegates in a plot to depose Trump with a convention rules change.
“Roughly 30 delegates from 15 states participated in a conference call Thursday night,” Yahoo! reported Monday. “Since then, however, [their] campaign appears to have picked up steam. A second conference call on Sunday night attracted an alleged 1,000 participants.”
According to The Washington Post, “The group is led by delegates seeking to block Trump at the GOP convention next month in Cleveland by changing party rules so that they can vote however they want — instead of in line with the results of state caucuses and primaries. It is quickly emerging as the most organized effort to stop Trump and coincides with his declining poll numbers.”
The Free the Delegates movement is also reportedly raising money for staff and a legal defense fund.
This establishment threat to Trump’s nomination has grown increasingly credible. The Associated Press has reported that more and more Republicans in Congress are saying they will not attend the party convention and are not endorsing his candidacy.
Trump wondered aloud Saturday who his opponents would pick as a replacement, a problem that has plagued the “Never Trump” movement for months.
“Who are they going to pick? I beat everybody. But I don’t mean beat — I beat the hell out of them,” he said.
Tell us what you think! Would you support another GOP candidate if Trump was dropped at the Republican National Convention?
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
The exact same thing happened prior to 1,237 votes when there was a two-week lull in the action. Remember how there was NO WAY Trump was going to get to 1,237. Let's see he beat that by what, 300 delegates??
Next!!
There would be a revenge GOP wipe out on down ballot candidates.
The likes of which the GOP has never experienced.
I thought the article might generate some interest and it probably shines the (well, maybe a partial?) spotlight of truth on a subject the GOPe would rather us Dick and Jane Americans not have much knowledge of.
I think we can rest assured that the GOPe is, as I write these words, scheming, plotting, planning, manipulating, bribing, paying off, etc., etc. anyone and everyone they can to try to keep The Donald out of the White House.
I reckoned that FReepers ought to know about this effort, and should I stumble across other efforts being mounted to keep The Donald out of the White House, I’ll postem here.
In the final analysis, the source of the article is not that important.
Maximum exposure is important so steps to counter the anti-Trump forces, Democrat and Republican alike, can be taken by Trump supporters, of which I am one.
Cruz delegates would never go to Trump! They would be on the “dump Trump” side.
“The Horn is published by Kevin Hart, an award-winning media specialist and former communications executive with President George H. W. Bush’s Points of Light Foundation.”
“Our managing editor is Stephen Dietrich, an experienced journalist and decorated veteran of the war in Iraq.”
Go ahead, ditch Trump. When you do that, you (1) Guarantee that Hillary is President, More importantly (2) The Republican Party is then once and for all Dead, with hopefully the Democrats not far behind.
A national convention suicide on national TV next month. I am at a loss to divine the thinking on all of this.
When Trump is dispatched the new candidate will be who, Ryan, Jeb, or Mitt, none of which I will vote for.
Please read my post #163.
Perhaps the negative publicity these “dump Trump” campaigns garner will cause the GOPe to back off?
I HOPE THE GOP ROBS TRUMP AND PICKS SOMEONE ELSE.
THEN WE CAN PICK SOME OTHER N E W POLITICAL PARTY THAT WE CAN CREATE THAT IS REALLY AMERICAN....AND WANTS TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Have you ever heard of Horn News before today?
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No. I sure haven’t.
Wow.
I would disagree with you on the statement that the source of the article is not that important, but, I admit I was mainly curious why you weren’t interacting with your own thread.
My curiosity was mostly about posting from such an obscure source, not so much about interacting on your own thread, though.
Jim Robinson was right to boot all the die hard Cruzers.
LOL....
Just making sure each person gets their on dedicated copy.
I ran into a couple of them on another thread today and some things NEVER change nasty as ever!!!
Even though I never supported him, I used to think Cruz was a good guy and the mean spirited Cruzers were the aberration.
Nope, they are all mean spirited, from the top on down.
“But Toomey MUST be punished for his repeated gun-grab attempts. “
I feel the same way. RINO’s need to be punished for their betrayal. And a message has to be sent to any future would-be RINO’s.
McCain, Grahmnesty, Romney, and the rest the RINO’s WORST nightmare is for Trump to be president and for them to lose their seats.
We got no better from them than we would have if the dems ran the Senate.
Make it so.
A planned coup to support TROP sycophants among Vichy Republicans?There’ll be Hell to pay!
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears..”
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