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If Trump wont go 3rd Party, will Cruz, Rubio, or Kasich?

Fiddytree

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Normally party unity for the GOP is what is desired after the convention, but 1912 and 1964 has shown us otherwise. Is the "save conservatism" a real motto this year? If so, will people of standing go so far as to intentionally split the vote to ensure a Trump defeat in November? Or will they give it the half-hearted unity pledge?
 
Fiddytree said:
Normally party unity for the GOP is what is desired after the convention, but 1912 and 1964 has shown us otherwise. Is the "save conservatism" a real motto this year? If so, will people of standing go so far as to intentionally split the vote to ensure a Trump defeat in November? Or will they give it the half-hearted unity pledge?
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Not a chance. Kasich will simply hang up the robe, while Cruz and Rubio will do the party thing, endorse Trump and run again in 4 or 8 years.
 
It would be very expensive for trump to run 3rd party...he wouldn't do it.
 
disneydude said:
Not a chance. Kasich will simply hang up the robe, while Cruz and Rubio will do the party thing, endorse Trump and run again in 4 or 8 years.
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Kasich will join the board of directors of a "Too Big To Fail" bank./investment firm. He has experience there with Goldman Sachs.

Cruz I believe will go back to his old job because he's still a senator.

Rubio I think put all his everything on this and he'll be the biggest loser and will beg for a job from Trump. Which he may get as ambassador to Cuba. Regardless of his politics I have to respect someone who puts everything on the line in order to win and he's giving up his senate seat to run. Unlike Cruz who has a safe backup and therefore a cushion if things don't work out.
 
Third party candidates typically wipe out the party they split from (T.Roosevelt, Joe Leiberman, etc) if they have even a marginally respectable following, so unless one of those guys thinks the GOP deserves to lose, I doubt they'll go in.
 
Fiddytree said:
Normally party unity for the GOP is what is desired after the convention, but 1912 and 1964 has shown us otherwise. Is the "save conservatism" a real motto this year? If so, will people of standing go so far as to intentionally split the vote to ensure a Trump defeat in November? Or will they give it the half-hearted unity pledge?
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I doubt Cruz,Rubio and Kasich would go 3rd party. I can see Trump doing a Trumper-tantrum and going 3rd party mostly because of the fact that guy has switched parties 5 times.
 
Mr Person said:
Third party candidates typically wipe out the party they split from (T.Roosevelt, Joe Leiberman, etc) if they have even a marginally respectable following, so unless one of those guys thinks the GOP deserves to lose, I doubt they'll go in.
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It'd be like a murder-suicide. They'd take the Republican Party out of the running and destroy their own political career.
Unless independents get elected to Congress. Does that happen in the US?
 
Mr Person said:
Third party candidates typically wipe out the party they split from (T.Roosevelt, Joe Leiberman, etc) if they have even a marginally respectable following, so unless one of those guys thinks the GOP deserves to lose, I doubt they'll go in.
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That's what I was intentionally asking, but I'm glad you also said you doubt they would do it. With the intensity that a lot of conservatives have become disgusted by Trump, you heard a lot of calls--perhaps and probably in the heat of the moment lapses--for bolting and having a big third party ticket of conservatives against Trump. They would know full-well it would doom both their candidacy and Trump's, but killing off Trump would potentially "save" the GOP for the next 4-8 years or longer.
 
Grand Mal said:
It'd be like a murder-suicide. They'd take the Republican Party out of the running and destroy their own political career.
Unless independents get elected to Congress. Does that happen in the US?
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It does, but rarely lately.

(I think Bernie Sanders was elected on an independent ticket a number of times, though now he's running as a D).


Ok, I'm going to give in an google it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

So there you are. It was a lot more common around the beginning of the 20th Century, but lately, it has been very rare.




Both parties have made it very difficult to run as a third party candidate on a national ticket.
 
Mr Person said:
It does, but rarely lately.

(I think Bernie Sanders was elected on an independent ticket a number of times, though now he's running as a D).


Ok, I'm going to give in an google it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

So there you are. It was a lot more common around the beginning of the 20th Century, but lately, it has been very rare.




Both parties have made it very difficult to run as a third party candidate on a national ticket.
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Ah, thanks. That's an interesting link.
 
I don't see any of them running third party but I do see a pretentious asshole like Bloomberg running.
 
It would be ideologically exciting to see Trump and Sanders join forces against the establishment.
 
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