Carson doubles down on threat to leave the GOP

“Ross Perot in 1992 didn’t start petitioning until March”, said Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News. Get your favorite presidential bumper sticker here! The story said several Republican power brokers argued that if Trump storms through the primaries, the GOP establishment must lay groundwork for a convention-floor fight in which the party’s mainstream wing could rally around an alternative.

It’s one thing to dispassionately look at the possibility of something insane like this happening, and another altogether to work to make it happen and plan to exploit it, as it seems the cabal Costa and Hamburger wrote about is doing.

Carson went on to say that if the report is correct, then voters must know that they are being “betrayed”.

Trump and Carson both signed a pledge to run only as Republicans and not mount independent bids.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson threatened to leave the GOP Friday in a statement that blasted the Republican National Committee for reportedly discussing using a brokered convention in the event that Donald Trump remains atop the polls.

Of course, it’s obvious that he was talking about Donald Trump, who is now leading most polls. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie returns to the main stage after a downgrade in the November.

Bellwether Research surveyed 1,295 registered voters in IN between December 2 and December 9.

This Republican presidential primary is so much fun (when it’s not incredibly depressing on policy and moral grounds).

“There is no way that I, or anybody else who is running, is an expert in every area”, he said, and pointed to the way chief executives run their companies.

Trump said on Fox News that party leaders will need to get used to his presence. Trump on Sunday 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”. And Carson probably could, too.

Any third-party or independent candidate would be a longshot to win the presidency.

Probably not, said Stone, the political scientist. For Priebus, the subject comes up frequently in conversations, the officials said.

Party leaders took heed of Trump’s threat. And they call voters will finally consolidate their support behind an individual candidate. Or worse, Stone said, handing the election to the opposing party.

Fourteen Republicans are still in the hunt for the nomination, a wide field that has wrestled for months with how to confront Trump.

Despite those accolades, overall, 68 percent of Americans are anxious (19%) or very anxious (49%) about a President Trump, whereas 51 percent are anxious (16%) or very anxious (35%) about Hillary Clinton as president.