“But what they do is these people all want to run in four years right”. But the episode underscores the frenzy that could consume the GOP if Trump loses the race and the party searches for a new direction. “It’d be nice to have their support”.
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“Those people need to get on board”, he said. “Those people need to get on board”, Priebus said on CBS News Sunday. Other high-ranking Republicans have joined them in saying they will not vote for Trump, including Robert Gates and the 92-year-old former president, George H.W. Bush. Ted Cruz of Texas and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, have prominently refused to endorse Trump since he wrapped up the party’s nomination in May.
In other words, if former candidates don’t fall in line and support Trump, the Republican Party leadership might make it more hard for them to run for office in the future.
Basically, Priebus is telling Republicans who won’t jump on the Donald Trump hate train, if you do not support our guy, you are going to feel our wrath and we are going to change the rules within the Republican party, priebus suggested this, to make sure that you can’t even win a primary in the future.
When asked if the party itself would penalize candidates, Priebus said: “These are things that the party is going to look at”.
Preibus referenced a ballot-access issue in SC, where party candidates are actually required to pledge their support to the eventual nominee, in order to get on the ballot…regardless if who that person is. “In order to be on the ballot in SC, you actually have to pledge your support to the nominee, no matter who that person is”, Priebus explained on “Face the Nation”. So what’s the penalty for that?
Kasich’s chief strategist responded with a trash-talk-laced statement, warning of “a potential national wipeout” under Priebus and calling the Wisconsin native merely “a Kenosha political operative that is unable to stand up for core principles or beliefs”.
Chen – who has previously worked on the presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney and Marco Rubio – said that voters in the general election want to hear more substance than GOP primary voters. “Just because you don’t use a play in the first half doesn’t mean you don’t pull it out in the second half”. “They signed an agreement … and now they’re violating it”.
What he said about the race in OH: “I think that this race will be determined in OH based on the turnout in both the urban and suburban areas”. I don’t mind it.
“I was still in it and I think he dissed me, and I think it’s inappropriate”, Kasich told the Washington Post after suspending his White House bid.
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The governor maintains that he will not vote for Hillary Clinton, who he says is a “top-down person” who has an “enthusiasm gap” among voters in OH, but has signaled that a Trump endorsement is far-fetched.
