Trump, Carson Have Until Spring to Launch Third-Party Runs

This statement by Carson has been interpreted as a threat to leave the GOP.

But they can’t wait forever. But that’s nothing I want to do…I’ll know that over a period of a couple months. “I have seen a lot of bad decisions. They say, ‘Donald, you brought something up to the fore that is so brilliant and so fantastic, ‘” Trump told CNN, days after he called for “a complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the USA, drawing worldwide rebuke.

Candidates from both parties have breezed in to conventions with enough delegates to assure their nomination on the first delegate balloting, making the conventions little more than slickly-produced coronations. I scratch my head at those who really think this guy is a serious presidential candidate, in a field fat with qualified candidates.

Given the likelihood that the anti-Trump vote would be split up among as many as a dozen other candidates, and that more than half the states award convention delegates on a proportional or district-by-district basis, rather than winner-take-all, the campaign operatives argued that it was increasingly likely that no candidate would have a majority of delegates prior to the opening of the convention.

On being likened to Adolf Hitler, Trump said the comparisons did not upset him.

Sanchez represents a suburban district not far from San Bernardino, site of a December 2 attack that has been used by the entire USA political establishment and the corporate-controlled media to whip up public fears of terrorism and distract attention from the deepening social and economic crisis of American capitalism. All talk no, action politicians.

In this December 10, 2015, photo, Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump gestures during an address at a regional police union meeting in Portsmouth, N.H. Trump and Ben Carson could dangle the possibility of independent runs for president well into the primary season next year, but they can’t wait forever. But most have maintained they will support the eventual nominee. Sen. Ben Carson has warned “if the victor isn’t our nominee, then we have a massive problem” and Trump is again warning he could make a third party run that would nearly surely mean a win for the Democratic candidate.

As I watch the GOP election tolls tally-up leaders in the presidential race, I shake my head in bewilderment at the favorable responses for Donald Trump; it’s as if we are living in Bizarro World (a situation or setting which is weirdly inverted or opposite to expectations). No, Iowa is very important to me.