Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has said he will leave the GOP if Republican National Committee officials attempt to prevent Donald Trump’s nomination by brokering the convention next year. Citing five unnamed sources, the Washington Post reported Thursday that the potential brokered convention was a topic of discussion at a dinner Monday in Washington hosted by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
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“People are sick and exhausted of people like Jennifer Horn in the party establishment who are trying to dictate to everybody who should and should not be running, and I think Donald Trump in his success and his popularity is an example that people are sick and exhausted of the political machines in both parties”, Stepanek told CNN.
“I pray that the report in the Post this morning was incorrect”, Carson added.
“So whatever it is that makes that more likely to happen, I’m for it. I don’t know if it’s a brokered convention or not”, Chabot told The Hill. Well, Donald Trump says he would have invaded Mexico instead of Iraq! “But I will not sit by and watch a theft. I would support any reasonable idea to find a better nominee”.
The GOP congressman for northeast Wisconsin says there’s no way he would support Donald Trump if he’s the party’s presidential nominee.
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. (The last time Republicans had a multi-ballot convention, in 1948, they too lost the general election).
Trump, though he has that he would not run as a third-party candidate in 2016, has recently hinted at other alternatives to the GOP, ever since Republicans condemned his recent calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.
During an interview on the FOX Business Network, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone defended the 2016 GOP candidate’s comments on Muslim immigration. Well, the party elders are finally calling him out, and there’s a good chance he leaves and runs as an independent. And the anger that many Republican voters feel toward their party’s establishment has made Trump all but impervious to attacks by elected officials.
An independent bid by Mr. Trump could add those 32 additional electoral votes-16 from Georgia, 15 from North Carolina and the single electoral vote from Nebraska’s 2 district-to the Democratic total, pushing their cushion to a 385-153 Electoral College advantage, which would mark the widest Democratic triumph in a presidential election since 1964. A recent Quinnipiac poll, for example, showed Trump earning only 25 percent of “very conservative” Republicans, a showing that placed him four points behind conservative stalwart Sen.
“But if it is [happening], I’d certainly go all the way”, Trump said, to the Washington Post.
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