In order to have their names appear on the ballots across the country in the general election, independent candidates have to obtain a certain number of signatures. Waiting until summer would be too late. The Republican party’s 2012 vice presidential nominee said that Trump’s statements are not what his party stands for, and more importantly not what the United States stands for.
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The RNC had all candidates sign a pledge at the beginning of the race that they would support the eventual Republican nominee.
Republican candidate Ben Carson threatened on Friday to leave the GOP, apparently not happy with the possibility of a brokered convention suggested by the Republican National Committee earlier in the week.
Of course, it’s obvious that he was talking about Donald Trump, who is now leading most polls.
Paul Ryan is supposed to be the responsible adult in a room full of immature and belligerent Republicans.
Launching an independent campaign for president isn’t as simple as holding a press conference and coming up with a catchy name for your new political party – something like, the Make America Great Party. For example, in Wisconsin, an independent candidate for president or vice president in 2016 has to obtain 2,000 to 4,000 signatures by August 2, 2016. They can’t start gathering the signatures until after March 1, the date of the Democratic and Republican presidential primaries in that state.
“The decision will need to be made sooner rather than later because of the ballot deadlines”, said Clay Mulford, who advised Ross Perot’s third party run. Netanyahu’s office had said in a statement issued Wednesday that he rejects Trump’s comments about Muslims but planned to move forward with the meeting with Trump. And Carson probably could, too. Ronald Reagan just barely lost the Republican presidential nomination that year to incumbent President Gerald Ford, who ultimately lost the election to Jimmy Carter.
Probably not, said Stone, the political scientist. For Priebus, the subject comes up frequently in conversations, the officials said. But it’s not clear that any third party is a natural match for the kind of campaign that Trump has been running this cycle.
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And that mixed message, criticism followed by a commitment to support a “not what this party stands for” nominee, aids and abets Trump. On Live With Kelly and Michael, he said that he would consider splitting from the Republican Party if he wasn’t “treated fairly”.
