Trump, Carson annoyed by talk of brokered GOP convention

The Washington Post reported last week that top officials met to discuss the party’s strategy in the event that GOP front-runner Donald Trump sweeps through the primaries. “I am going to make our country great again”. They were supposed to be honorable, so we’re going to find out.

“I don’t want to see back room dealing going on with the power brokers”. A brokered convention would result if no one candidate secured majority support from delegates to win the nomination outright.

The divisive billionaire’s renewed threats to bolt from the GOP and run as an independent in the general election has party elders on edge that he’ll guarantee four more years of a Democrat in the White House. In short, he is seen as the most decisive candidate of either party – both by Republicans and by Americans at large. Ted Cruz and others, has competed for a fractured party base.

Donald Trump holds his commanding lead in the Republican race for the White House after his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States was condemned worldwide, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the 1st national survey conducted entirely after his remarks.

Trump said Cruz doesn’t have the right temperament or the right judgment to be president, and has acted in the Senate “like a little bit of a maniac”.

Carson, who’s been slipping in recent polling of voter support, is viewed as the most compassionate and likable, with 7 in 10 Republican voters saying each word describes him at least somewhat well. In the latest CBS/New York Times poll, Trump leads as the choice of 35% of the respondents, more than double the 16% support received by his nearest competitor, Senator Ted Cruz.

The GOP’s early voting contests, which begin with the Iowa caucuses in less than eight weeks, tend to feature the party’s most passionate voters, who have been excited about Trump’s candidacy.

Carson made his remarks in the wake of a Washington Post report stating that nearly two dozen establishment party figures were preparing for a potential brokered convention as businessman Donald Trump continues to lead in most polls.

“One of the reasons that I got into this is because I heard the frustration in the people who are so exhausted of backroom deals, of subterfuge, of dishonesty”, Carson said during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos”.

Carson said, “We have to get over our phobia of the concept of ground troops, because there will be ground troops”. A poll found that 68 percent of Trump’s supporters would back him if he left the party and made an independent run.

On ABC, Carson said Republican Party chairman Reince Priebus assured him that it was a routine meeting and that the party has no intention of cutting a back room deal.

“I say to Dr. Carson, ‘Don’t worry, your prayers have been answered, ‘” Spicer told CNN’s Kate Bolduan.

The retired neurosurgeon then clarified that he would not launch a third-party run for president.

This article contains material from the Tribune News Service.