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Conservatives, Would You Support Canceling the GOP Primaries?

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There apparently has been some talk about protect Trump from a GOP primary challenge. Can you imagine if the president was turned out by his own party? In order to prevent that, some are open to canceling the GOP primaries and simply proclaiming Trump the party nominee.

Presumably because this talk of a primary challenge to Trump won’t die, some of his loyal subalterns are discussing ways to make that impossible. Last month the buzz was over the South Carolina GOP chairman airing the idea of multiple states simply canceling their primaries to ensure Trump isn’t annoyed by a challenge, as the Washington Examiner reported:

Drew McKissick, chairman of the South Carolina GOP, said he doesn’t anticipate Trump would face a primary challenge and emphasized that the state party executive committee hasn’t held any formal discussions about the contest, dubbed “first in the South” and usually third on the presidential nominating calendar. But McKissick would pointedly not rule out canceling the primary, indicating that that would be his preference.

“We have complete autonomy and flexibility in either direction,” McKissick told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. “Considering the fact that the entire party supports the president, we’ll end up doing what’s in the president’s best interest.”
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Stealers Wheel said:
There apparently has been some talk about protect Trump from a GOP primary challenge. Can you imagine if the president was turned out by his own party? In order to prevent that, some are open to canceling the GOP primaries and simply proclaiming Trump the party nominee.
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Technically the RNC has every right to do this. Although I disagree with the DNC on super delegates, if the RNC were to do this it would be ten times worse than a Dem super delegate.
 
Praxas said:
Technically the RNC has every right to do this. Although I disagree with the DNC on super delegates, if the RNC were to do this it would be ten times worse than a Dem super delegate.
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But, would it be worse than having Trump become a lame duck by June of 2020? If a Mitt Romney or someone else were to make a run and secure the nomination, Trumpsters' heads would explode.
 
No I would like to see what the establishment put forward. In my opinion if mitt Romney is the pick then I don’t think that Republicans should be a major political party because we have seen his past election
 
TheRepublican said:
No I would like to see what the establishment put forward. In my opinion if mitt Romney is the pick then I don’t think that Republicans should be a major political party because we have seen his past election
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Is there anyone in the GOP who you think would be a viable candidate other than Trump? Nikki Haley, perhaps? James Mattis?
 
Stealers Wheel said:
But, would it be worse than having Trump become a lame duck by June of 2020? If a Mitt Romney or someone else were to make a run and secure the nomination, Trumpsters' heads would explode.
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We should be so lucky.

More than likely they would start shooting is MHO.
 
If the Republicans primary Trump and someone else wins, Trump is still going to run for re-election. He isn’t going to step aside “for the good of the party”. So it would be Trump vs the Republican nominee vs the Democratic nominee. That will guarantee a Democratic victory. There is no rational reason for the Republicans to primary Trump unless they are just doing it to get Trump out of office.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
If the Republicans primary Trump and someone else wins, Trump is still going to run for re-election. He isn’t going to step aside “for the good of the party”. So it would be Trump vs the Republican nominee vs the Democratic nominee. That will guarantee a Democratic victory. There is no rational reason for the Republicans to primary Trump unless they are just doing it to get Trump out of office.
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That’s a rational reason to do it.
 
Does a libertarian centrist count? I am against anything that impedes what little election we still get in this country. A primary challenge could really help the process and there is no downside. Not being GOP, tho, I don't know if I count since I'd love to see Trump replaced with a more reasonable person.
 
Deuce said:
That’s a rational reason to do it.
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I’m sure there are Republicans who would rather have a Democrat than Trump just so they can stop being embarrassed. But as bad as Trump is, he is still appointing justices that the Republican Party likes and I’m not sure they would be willing to voluntarily give THAT up. I could be wrong, though.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I’m sure there are Republicans who would rather have a Democrat than Trump just so they can stop being embarrassed. But as bad as Trump is, he is still appointing justices that the Republican Party likes and I’m not sure they would be willing to voluntarily give THAT up. I could be wrong, though.
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They’d love to have him out with a Republican replacement, but yeah. They like the appointments too much. They don’t care about the legislative agenda anymore, they already lost that with the Democratic House. They also can’t actually admit even a hint of this, the base is too enthralled with Trump and will turn on them. (Which is also why impeachment is off the table, o amount of evidence will matter)
 
Skeptic Bob said:
There is no rational reason for the Republicans to primary Trump unless they are just doing it to get Trump out of office.
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The rational reason to primary Trump is because the GOP doesn't believe they can win with Trump. Not only that, but with Trump at the top of the ticket, many downstream republicans could be adversely affected in their races.

By dumping Trump, it would signal to the rest of the country that they have come to their senses.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
If the Republicans primary Trump and someone else wins, Trump is still going to run for re-election. He isn’t going to step aside “for the good of the party”. So it would be Trump vs the Republican nominee vs the Democratic nominee. That will guarantee a Democratic victory.
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The whole reason Trump ran for president in the first place was to increase the value of his "brand." If Trump were to be primaried, the only reason he would run as a third party or independent candidate is to fleece those (I could shoot someone) diehard fans one last time. There is no way Trump would finance his own campaign unless there was a way to recoup those costs.

If he were to be primaried, he would spin it like "Well, I've accomplished more than any other president in the history of the country and I did it in a single term. My work is done here."
 
i don't see a Trumpist party 2020 presidential primary as being very likely.
 
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