Exclusive: Trump threatens third-party run
Source: The Hill
NEW YORK Donald Trump says the chances that he will launch a third-party White House run will absolutely increase if the Republican National Committee is unfair to him during the 2016 primary season.
The RNC has not been supportive. They were always supportive when I was a contributor. I was their fair-haired boy, the business mogul told The Hill in a 40-minute interview from his Manhattan office at Trump Tower on Wednesday. The RNC has been, I think, very foolish.
Pressed on whether he would run as a third-party candidate if he fails to clinch the GOP nomination, Trump said that so many people want me to, if I dont win.
Ill have to see how Im being treated by the Republicans, Trump said. Absolutely, if theyre not fair, that would be a factor.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/248910-exclusive-trump-threatens-third-party-run
liberal N proud
(60,351 posts)It would be the best gift to the Democrats since Word Salad Sarah was given to the American public.
spinbaby
(15,092 posts)First I want to see his performance in the Republican debates, THEN he can run as a third-party candidate.
This is going to require a lot of popcorn.
marble falls
(57,425 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)There is no way.
God, I would love a Trump 3rd-party run.
harun
(11,348 posts)sarge43
(28,946 posts)Herman4747
(1,825 posts)former9thward
(32,121 posts)But enough of them in key states the Rs had previously won that Bush lost the electoral votes in those states and thus the election.
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)"I think every single vote that went to Ross Perot came from Bush," Trump recently told the Washington Examiner.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)groundloop
(11,530 posts)(But we can still wish).
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Trump is extorting the gop ... he is just waiting for them to approach him with an offer to get out of the race. I suspect his menu reads:
Tone Down the Rhetoric ................................................ $10,000,000
Exit the race (before the first primary) ..............................$50,000,000
Exit the race (before the Super Tuesday) ...........................$100,000,000
Exit the race (and NOT run a 3rd party run) .......................$250,000,000
Exit the race (with an endorsement of gop Nominee) ............Market Price
(Each of the listed rates do not preclude book rights, should the patron wish to add this item, please add a $10,000,000 add-on fee)
But as with all got extortionists, if the gop approaches him, he'll set the hook deeper, by threatening to go public with the offer ... and the rates will increase by a factor of 10, across the board.
Chemisse
(30,821 posts)He is one strange dude - but he knows how to make money.
joshcryer
(62,287 posts)Since the field is full of other crazy people he feels like he should have a good a shot as any.
PeteSelman
(1,508 posts)He's winning right now. I don't see the lunatic right abandoning him.
bucolic_frolic
(43,442 posts)I'm sure a billionaire at the hub of NY political circles knows
a lot of information about many people
He sure is inconsistent with the fundamentalist wing of the party
He's more NY Tea Party businessman
He's certainly portraying the party as full of incompetents
phylny
(8,393 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)the GOP taken to its logical conclusion!
Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)He is the aborted offspring of the propaganda that has been fed to the masses to ultimately benefit the corporate hegemony.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)tanyev
(42,661 posts)Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Skraxx
(2,985 posts)joy!
aintitfunny
(1,421 posts)Response to brooklynite (Original post)
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Nay
(12,051 posts)it's another Pub!
ananda
(28,891 posts)..
Gothmog
(145,794 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)from doing that.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was disappointed by the William Taft presidency, and so went for the Republican presidential nomination. The party establishment never liked TR, so they blocked him and nominated Taft for re-election. So Roosevelt ran as a third party candidate. What he managed to do was split the Republican vote, and thus the Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected.
As an independent candidate, Trump would almost certainly draw off enough of the Republican nut-case vote to ensure the election of whoever the Democrats pick.
bucolic_frolic
(43,442 posts)is that you can't pay a billionaire to go away.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)As for a Trump 3rd party run, in the words of Willy Wonka, "No.... Don't ..... Stop...." PS Pick Palin as your running mate!
City Lights
(25,171 posts)dembotoz
(16,864 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts).... so this ought to happen rather soon.
cindyperry
(151 posts)just cannot get any better run bigot run
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Tell me I'm not dreaming this!
No only does he refer to himself as "their fair-haired boy"...
But also tries to bully his way with the GOTP.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Theres nothing more threatening to a man than a woman whos smart and attractive.
All the women flirted with me consciously or unconsciously. Thats to be expected.
............
trof
(54,256 posts)Official Monster Raving Loony Party
"Political position: Sitting, facing forward."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party
FSogol
(45,579 posts)Create the Trump Party! It'll be HUGE!
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)We should hand out Trump wigs just for signing up!
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)olddad56
(5,732 posts)He is just a shill.
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)Alhena
(3,030 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)GOP, I will be sending Trump money as my personal thank you for getting GOP members to support nader in 2000. Payback!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)His money can't change the time restraints on filing. Unless he runs as a write-in. Never heard of anyone winning the residency that way. You are knowledgable about elections, so what do you think?
TIA.