Ben Carson has strong feelings about how Republican party leaders are running their show.
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The retired neurosurgeon made the threat, The Washington Post reported, amid talk of “a brokered convention”.
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC says the Republican Party would be better off losing without GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump than winning with him, as he blasted the bombastic real estate mogul for threatening a third-party run at the White House.
The Post’s report added, “Upon leaving, several attendees said they would soon share with one another memos about delegate allocation in each state as well as research about the 1976 convention, the last time the GOP gathered without a clear nominee”. They truly can not stand the notion of a nominee like Trump who is a straight talker and is politically incorrect.
Republican spokesman Sean Spicer told the Post that the meeting was simply meant to discuss every possible scenario to “ensure a successful nomination”.
He also stumbled publicly on foreign policy, with The New York Times quoting an adviser who said Carson wasn’t prepared. Some delegates are bound to vote for the candidate chosen in primaries or state conventions on the first ballot. It is ironic that they would ask us to support the GOP candidate, as they work behind closed doors to work against 30-40% of the electorate that has stated clearly that we will not “go along to get along”. “It’s nothing more than that”.
Reports came out that insiders were deal-making to decide the party’s nominee for president at the Republican National Convention. Plus, Trump has nearly unlimited funds for an independent run, where Carson would have to fundraise outside the party structure that is more interested in electing a Republican (and probably in preventing Trump to get to the nomination), so Carson can’t expect to get much traction outside the GOP.
“The pledge isn’t meaningless”, Watts said. However, if no candidate wins a majority on the first ballot, delegates can vote as they wish, promising a nasty political spectacle for the Republican Party if multiple votes are taken. No, no, there will not be any brokered major political party conventions today. “But I certainly don’t want to be a part of corruption”, he said. Figures like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus listened Monday night while officials laid out the nuts and bolts of a contested convention process. Even some on the right said Johnson’s response to Trump has been “tepid”.
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At least one attendee at the private dinner, which is a regular gathering of leading Republicans in Washington, told The Associated Press that suggestions of manipulation by party leaders were dramatically exaggerated.
