“If this was the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of the voters and replace it with the will of the political elite”, Carson said in a written statement, “I assure you Donald Trump will not be the only one leaving the party”.
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A group of GOP leaders held a hush-hush meeting at a Washington, DC, restaurant to discuss the possibility of having a brokered convention next year so that they could find an alternative to Donald Trump, according to a report. “Now he has gone way over the line, and what he’s saying now is not only shameful and wrong, it’s unsafe”. “And I don’t say that lightly, but it does”, she continued.
Franklin, the songwriter, gospel recording artist and minister of music, engaged in his Twitter rant against Trump’s pastoral supporters after the presidential hopeful called for the banning of Muslims entering the United States.
As Republican rivals try to chip away some of the front-runner’s support, many of them – from the ideological crusaders like Texas Sen.
And Republican candidate Ben Carson has responded to news reports about a possible brokered convention with the same threat.
“This is not conservatism”, said House Speaker Paul Ryan, a former Republican vice presidential nominee.
Not only did Trump propose banning Muslims from entering the United States, he has said he wants to track Muslims already here and spy on their mosques. “You have been warned Mr Donald Trump”. A third-party run by Carson or Trump would be a worst-case scenario for the Republicans.
A poll from The New York Times and CBS, conducted largely before Trump’s incendiary comments, showed that he was gaining from heightened fears about terrorism following attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. One reason the Republican establishment continues to tolerate Trump is that the real estate mogul, in a demonstration of his negotiating skills, subtly threatens to go rogue.
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– In the same poll, 43 percent of Republican primary voters say they are angry about politics in Washington, and among those people, 43 percent support Mr. Trump.
