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Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options if Trump Drops Out
abc ^ | 8/3 | karl

Posted on 08/03/2016 10:04:26 AM PDT by RummyChick

Republican officials are exploring how to handle a scenario that would be unthinkable in a normal election year: What would happen if the party's presidential nominee dropped out?

ABC News has learned that senior party officials are so frustrated — and confused — by Donald Trump's erratic behavior that they are exploring how to replace him on the ballot if he drops out.

So how would it work?

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


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To: roses of sharon

One delegate has already said he may not vote for Trump.


61 posted on 08/03/2016 10:24:35 AM PDT by RummyChick ("...Americans think Trump is running 2 help America &Hillary is running 2 help Hillary" ~Ben Shapiro)
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To: Starboard

Indeed, the pick axe is right on the root vein of the problem for sure. This opportunity cannot be wasted, Trump and team and supporters need to figure out how to neutralize the onslaught. Something unconventional is needed, maybe something like a “walkout” of sorts, and not just something symbolic.


62 posted on 08/03/2016 10:25:45 AM PDT by Religion and Politics (Let's get Trump to turn the Presidential persona on for a test ride from now to January.)
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To: RummyChick

This isn’t “news” ... they’ve been doing this since the beginning. If you would put an older date on this article it would look the same as it would have 6 months ago.


63 posted on 08/03/2016 10:26:31 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

But it is working. Amazing watching what is happening here.


64 posted on 08/03/2016 10:27:00 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: RummyChick

“Quick Matilda, fetch me my smelling salts! I feel a bad case of the vapors coming on.”


65 posted on 08/03/2016 10:27:19 AM PDT by SelmaLee (Will crawl over broken, burning glass - to vote for TRUMP.)
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To: RummyChick
He's making all the right enemies(elites)...makes him the PEOPLES candidate.

MSMDNCRNC about to eat a yuuuuge sh t sandwich...and hopefully with it, the biggest political/corporate globalist toilet flush in history.

Make it so.

66 posted on 08/03/2016 10:28:59 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Political Correctness is a kool-aid drinking suicide cult)
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To: RummyChick
I'm on vacation and without my Fox Business and Stuart Varney and Lou Dobbs. Instead, I have only CNN or FNC. I chose FNC and in the last two hours, the only positive Trump story was when they talked to Mike Pence.

Not having watched FNC for almost a year, I didn't know just how anti Trump they had become.

We are going to have to work hard to overcome all the negativity.

67 posted on 08/03/2016 10:31:53 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<---has now left CA for NV, where God/guns have not been outlawed! Prayers for Trump and family)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Rumor has It......

DNC DISTRAUGHT OVER HILLARYS LOOMING INDICTMENT
Film at 11 !

68 posted on 08/03/2016 10:36:48 AM PDT by M-cubed
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To: RummyChick

More media fabricated horse**it


69 posted on 08/03/2016 10:37:55 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: Religion and Politics

Trump should confront the GOPe and give them an ultimatum. Cease this subversive campaign against me or I’m walking and taking my millions of voters with me. Call their bluff.

If Trump leaves, the GOP would be eviscerated and decimated. And they know it. He needs to get tough with them. Go Patton on them.


70 posted on 08/03/2016 10:41:55 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Mr. K
what about if HilLIARy drops out? or gets indicted?

I think something is fixing to come which will definitively kill the Hillary campaign, some kind of email leak or other sitting on deck. The knowledge of an indefensible Hillary and her resultant dropping out could be the root of the desperation we are seeing regarding Trump, to see if they can unseat him before that event occurs and makes him s shoe in.

Who would be "in the know" on this? Obama for one. That could explain his recent hysteria. Which, by the way, came out just prior to the "kidnapping" disclosure.

71 posted on 08/03/2016 10:43:08 AM PDT by Religion and Politics (Let's get Trump to turn the Presidential persona on for a test ride from now to January.)
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To: mrs9x
This hysteria is getting so ridiculous it is going to backfire. The MSM is totally exposed on this.

And way too early in the game too. Something is up. I agree, they are way too far exposed now.

72 posted on 08/03/2016 10:46:50 AM PDT by Religion and Politics (Let's get Trump to turn the Presidential persona on for a test ride from now to January.)
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To: T. P. Pole

What is or may be happening here (assuming you mean here on FR) is without question “being affected by media spin” and is predictable. Hell, if you haven’t felt discouraged by the events of the past few days, you’re probably not paying attention. I’ll readily confess to it myself. I’ll readily confess that when Trump lets out some zinger, I am repeatedly thinking “why doesn’t this guy for once shut his freaking mouth?”

But for some balance:

First, we know the media does this. And they will conduct a teenage girls @ Bieber concert rush all to one side of the boat (mixing metaphors badly, sorry) trying to outgun themselves crapping all over Trump. So there is nothing unexpected here.

Let us also stipulate that if you wanna develop a building in NYC, this is possibly a 5-9 year process of acquiring properties and entitlements (term is used in a different way than “welfare”, in its commercial real estate meaning) and a 24 or 48 hour news cycle in short attention span theater is not only nothing, it is less than nothing.

History has shown that Trump has gotten over all of this dirtbomb-throwing.

It’s possible that one time, on one of these, he will give in and quit. That is not under your or my control and yeah, it would have the horrific effect of electing Hillary. Look, here election was preordained regardless of Repub opponent.

Just step back from the whirling blades. I am no more prescient than you or anyone else, all I or anyone can do is to imagine how very delicious it would be to defeat HRC. As far as I am concerned, a non trivial piece of America died the day she was let off for her blatant lying. Should she be elected, plenty more will die. Other than everything, what’s left to lose?


73 posted on 08/03/2016 10:47:17 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: RummyChick

OMG, they are delusional. This man won’t give up until he’s in a coffin somewhere. They don’t get him at all.


74 posted on 08/03/2016 10:54:36 AM PDT by mancini
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To: RummyChick
I strongly suggest the "senior officials" drop out IMMEDIATELY... Losers.
75 posted on 08/03/2016 11:02:55 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: RummyChick

Oh sure, Trump has spent $55 million of his personal fortune and he is just going to drop out.... OMG


76 posted on 08/03/2016 11:13:19 AM PDT by jokemoke
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To: RummyChick

I am probably the hundredth person to ask for the names of these ‘senior party officials’. But we want to know!


77 posted on 08/03/2016 11:21:23 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: RummyChick

Media and Team Clinton [but I repeat myself] are probably petrified that Clinton will have a coughing or head-boppoing fit during a debate, because they know that would end her candidacy.

They are trying to figure out a way to get out of debates altogether.

A week or so ago former PA Gov Rendell was offering advice — to Trump. Basically, he said, ‘you don’t need the debates to win Pennsylvania, so why not just cancel them and stay on the campaign trail?’

[I am sure the Gov had Trump’s best interest at heart. Yeah, right.]


78 posted on 08/03/2016 11:23:47 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

It is not just “being affected by media spin.” It is the significant degradation of intellect in the discussion. It is as if I was transported from a group of folks that could hold a serious debate even where they disagreed to a bunch of third graders that think calling someone a name is the peak of argument.

I look at the exaggerations and flat-out lies about perceived enemies. The “he’s dead to me” based on a false headline.

This current thread is a great example. The GOP leadership would be negligent if they haven’t reviewed the process if Trump drops out. That doesn’t mean they are taking active steps to kick him out. But some of the replies here are taking several steps extrapolating the actual situation and turning it into something approaching treason.

Maybe I’m just not used to these “New York” values. If that’s what it is. But it sure seems coarser around here lately.

Thanks for your response.


79 posted on 08/03/2016 11:24:58 AM PDT by T. P. Pole
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To: LS

Recall several weeks ago that there was a rumor that one of the Trump sons supposedly offered the VP slot to Kasich. The offer was that Kasich would run everything because all Trump was interested in was getting his name on the door. Then, he would just sit back and let the VP run things.

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[INCOMINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! Another kitchen sink! Duck and cover!]


80 posted on 08/03/2016 11:29:27 AM PDT by TomGuy
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