The news network reported Friday morning that Carson said he would consider leaving the party if a potential candidate deal between Republican leaders becomes reality.
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Ben Carson on Friday took a page from Donald Trump’s playbook by threatening to depart the Republican Party.
After Ben Carson bashed swirling reports of Republican Party officials discussing the possibility of a brokered convention, Donald Trump wrote him a note to thank him for his “excellent” point.
The possibility that the Republican battle for a nominee will extend to the convention was discussed at a dinner on Monday of top party operatives hosted by Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus.
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”.
According to sources at the dinner, a brokered convention was not the primary focus, but it was a topic of conversation.
Yet he appears to be well-positioned in his party’s nomination contest, which begins with the Iowa caucuses in less than eight weeks.
Trump has repeatedly made false or dubious assertions, such as his debunked claim to have seen thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering the 9/11 attacks.
But earlier this week, Trump told Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan on their syndicated show that he might pursue an independent run if the GOP does not treat him fairly.
“I think for weeks, you know, you and everybody else were just bringing folks to hysterical laughter and all of that”, Clinton said on NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers”.
He called the hubbub “quite silly”.
– Rush Limbaugh to the GOP hopefuls, in response to media predictions that Donald Trump would be a disaster for the Republican Party in the general election.
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The RNC had all candidates sign a pledge at the beginning of the race that they’d support the eventual Republican nominee. It is for this reason Trump leads the Republican presidential field by nearly two to one over the next rival, Senator Ted Cruz, who has difficulty renouncing Trumps’ cancerous, prejudicial statements for morbid fear the good senator may offend Trump supporters, who also hold similar toxic stereotype perspectives.
