GOP hopeful Carson threatens to leave Republican Party

He called the pledge a “two-way street”, saying that “If they don’t treat me with… respect… all options are open”. “I love you people, remember that”, he told rally attendees who waved signs bearing the message, “The silent majority stands with Trump”, and wore red “Make America Great Again” caps. I also did it because I’m in the midst of a very powerful campaign that’s going very well and it was not that easy to do.

If the Republicans can not put forward their best and brightest in Washington to become president, it shows how disconnected they are from those they claim to represent.

“There are some things we know about Trump”.

The prospect of a contested convention – the first in more than six decades – surfaced during a dinner meeting of Republican power brokers this week, a conversation that included the rise of anti-establishment billionaire Donald Trump, reported The Washington Post.

Priebus and McConnell, the six-term Kentucky senator, remained silent, according to the report, while other party members argued that mainstream party members should begin preparing for a fight on the floor of the Quicken Loans Arena if Trump sweeps next year’s state primaries. That would not hold, however, if no nominee is chosen.

Carson’s threat came a day after party operatives said the race is so unpredictable that it could result in a contested convention in July when delegates meet to formally pick their presidential nominee.

Republican spokesman Sean Spicer told the Post that the meeting was simply meant to discuss every possible scenario to “ensure a successful nomination”.

Carson said, “if this was the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of the voters and replace it with the will of the political elite, I assure you Donald Trump will not be the only one leaving the party”.

No one in any party gets elected without pandering to some audience.

Carson was deploying a tactic that Trump has repeatedly used on the trail. His national polling numbers have been slipping in recent weeks.

The last Republican brokered nominee was Thomas Dewey in 1948.

“And I’m exhausted of it”, Carson declared.

“We can not capitulate to it”. Sensing trouble, Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus and House Speaker Paul Ryan were quick to reject the idea as “anti-American”, and Trump’s chief rivals, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, disavowed his views. One of the co-hosts is CNN.

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who strongly appeals to many Christian conservatives, surprised the political world with his emergence as a top contender for the Republican presidential nomination. Carson declined to attack the front-runner’s protest – but said that his position was based on principle.