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File under: very, very weird.
Former Bush strategist floats idea of third-party 'GOP' to derail Donald Trump
Yes, very, very weird.
Didn't the Republican Party just demand that Trump sign a pledge that he would not run 3rd party were he to not get the nomination?
Hmmmmmm.....
Former Bush strategist floats idea of third-party 'GOP' to derail Donald Trump
McKinnon presented three possible scenarios when asked if he thought the Trump juggernaut could continue for another year...
..."Scenario one is the conventional wisdom, which is that Super PACs will unload on him," he said. "Carly Fiorina and Jeb Bush and others will beat up on him and that that will ultimately mean that he fades away. If that was going to happen, it would've happened by now."
"I think a more likely scenario is that he sustains now, goes all the way through the nominating process and actually gathers enough delegates - not the nomination, but enough delegates - to be a real nuisance at the convention where he can leverage some agreement or get something out of it so that he can walk away with a win," he added. But there was a third scenario, which he admitted was "wild and improbable."
"He starts to gather enough delegates where it actually looks like he could win the nomination," McKinnon said. "The Republican establishment completely freaks out. They get together and say, this is unacceptable, but it looks like it's going to happen. So we go off, and we create a new Republican Party as an Independent candidacy and draft somebody who's tanned, rested and ready to go and with a lot of money, somebody like Mitt Romney."
Yes, very, very weird.
Didn't the Republican Party just demand that Trump sign a pledge that he would not run 3rd party were he to not get the nomination?
Hmmmmmm.....