Thirty-percent of Republican voters are now supporting Trump, whose claim to fame is standing-up to the media, violating every rule of political correctness, and whose devil-may-care approach to national issues all boil down to a mere minor league negotiation opportunity?
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After a month of tumbling in the polls, Ben Carson took a page from Donald Trump’s playbook Friday by threatening to depart the Republican Party.
Senior GOP officials met at a routine private dinner this week and discussed the possibility of a brokered Republican convention, which hasn’t happened in decades.
Slammed for advocating a ban on all Muslims from entering the United States, leading Republican presidential aspirant Donald Trump has said he is “doing good for the Muslims” and is the “least racist person”.
Citing five unnamed officials who attended the dinner, the Post report that Priebus and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) listened largely without comment to several longstanding Republican campaign organizers who made presentations of possible outcomes of the presidential race. They truly can not stand the notion of a nominee like Trump who is a straight talker and is politically incorrect. He acknowledged that Carson, like Trump and the rest of the Republican field, signed a pledge not to launch a third-party bid.
If Trump does bolt, 68% of his supporters would support him as an Independent, according to a new poll from USA Today/Suffolk University.
“The pledge isn’t meaningless”, Watts said.
“If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning”. There was brief discussion of the logistical challenges of running a national convention without a presumptive nominee, the attendee said.
Any third-party or independent candidate would be a longshot to win the presidency.
I will make one prediction about the presidential election cycle of 2016: If the Republicans have a brokered convention, especially if Donald Trump is still in the hunt, we will see wall-to-wall day and night TV coverage.
Such a scenario would play out if none of the Republican candidates accumulate the necessary number of delegates in the state-based primaries by the convention.
A plan to support an alternative candidate may be in the works in case a brokered convention is necessary.
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Meanwhile, the clock is already ticking for those considering leaving the GOP. However, several states have deadlines in March if a candidate forms a minor party, which can sometimes require fewer signatures to get on the ballot.
