Carson threatens to leave GOP

Her husband came to hear the “whole story” from Trump, mot just the “bits and pieces” he gets to hear through the news media.

Trump, though he has that he would not run as a third-party candidate in 2016, has recently hinted at other alternatives to the GOP, ever since Republicans condemned his recent calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.

The retired neurosurgeon had led polls of Republican voters, but support has slumped in recent weeks as Carson has struggled to offer details of his foreign policy vision.

The GOP congressman for northeast Wisconsin says there’s no way he would support Donald Trump if he’s the party’s presidential nominee.

He cited a report in the Washington Post that said Republican leaders were preparing for a brokered convention to pick their 2016 White House candidate. “As a result, none of the candidates is able to win the nomination on the first ballot, a rare event in modern political history that forces delegates and party elite to engage in convention-floor jockeying for votes and multiple rounds of balloting to reach a nomination”.

Next summer could find the first brokered convention in four decades.

For months, Trump has been atop most national polls in the race for the Republican nomination.

More than 20 of them convened Monday near the Capitol for a dinner held by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, and the prospect of Trump nearing next year’s nominating convention in Cleveland with a significant number of delegates dominated the discussion, according to five people familiar with the meeting.

A to Bloomberg, the last time there was a brokered convention was at the 1952 Democratic National Convention, and it resulted in the totally unexpected nomination of last-minute candidate Adlai Stevenson. “If it is correct, every voter who is standing for change must know they are being betrayed”.

“I watched what Ben said”.

Sean Spicer, RNC chief strategist and communications director, sought to reassure Carson on Friday.

Fellow Florida Republican and Bush supporter, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, agreed: “I wouldn’t support Donald Trump for president if he were our nominee”.

Trump, the GOP front-runner, has dangled the idea of an independent bid if he’s not treated fairly by the party. “It was a dinner where the subject was how the delegate selection process works….”

Carson reiterated his pledge not to run against the Republican nominee during an appearance on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto later Friday, saying “I would never do that”. “If the victor isn’t our nominee then we have a massive problem”.

Scott Furlong, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, says, “A Republican that is more establishment-oriented, the ones that are more likely to vote in our primary, they may take Congressman Ribble’s perspective into account”.