Some Republicans Discuss Anti-Trump Convention Coup

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

After nearly a week long fire storm surrounding Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his attacks on a federal judge because of his Mexican heritage, which led to harsh criticism from his supporters and even one un-endorsement, some Republicans are raising the specter that a new nominee could replace Trump.

Bob Vander Plaats, a supporter and campaign co-chair of former candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, suggested that a convention coup at next month's Republican nominating convention in Cleveland is possible.

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Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt also vocalized a plan B on his radio program, saying that "the party ought to change the nominee — because we're going to get killed with this nominee."

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/some-republicans-discuss-anti-trump-convention-coup-n588301

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Because Cruz actually has more DELEGATES supporting him, implementing a free vote on the first ballot might work. It would cause chaos, and the Republican nominee would crash and burn, but that's where they're heading now...

[stopbush]

1. I increasingly don't see how Trump will be their nominee.

They would be better as a Party to not even run anyone for the office than to have Trump destroy the Party.

[jpak]

2. Please please please!!111

[MFM008]

3. I bet they are

get the hook gop.....

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Exactly

They're going to crash with him

and they're going to crash without him

because they failed to confront him early enough

and failed to articulate a long term positive platform for the American people
instead of the special interests that control them

He won't go quietly

[Andy823]

5. So does this means

Cruz would be the nominee? I didn't think they wanted him either, but then again who really knows what republicans want these days. One thing I am sure of, even if Trump doesn't want the nomination, some are saying this because of his insane actions, I am sure if Cruz took it away from him, Trump, and his supporters would become irate and who know what would happen then.

[louis-t]

6. I'm going to have to learn to like popcorn.

[gwheezie]

7. Trump is the gop now

They need to accept this. The base says he represents them. It's who they are, why sugar coat it with a lunatic like Cruz. How is Cruz better than trump to lead the gop.

[underpants]

9. Yep. They lost control to their media (propaganda) and the dog whistles

Trump "telling it straight" goes past the dog whistles and their base love it.

[Cosmocat]

14. B I N G O

I watched Morning Joe have an aneurysm over trump this morning, and it was the usual cock and bull, THE PARTY OF LINCOLN, THE PARTY OF REAGAN, these cowards need to stand up to Trump!

I have watched these assholes whistle at this shit my entire adult life, since the early 90s, at first wrapped in some well crafted bullshit (states rights, constitutionalism and all that other high minded psuedo intellectual bullshit the spewed in the early days of talk radio). It eroded into pure hatred of Clinton, then further eroded into bully politics in the 2000s using 9-11 to beat over everyone's head, then went completely off the rails into pure fanatical hatred of Barrack Obama.

They have won a LOT of elections, federal, state, country, municipal with Trump voters for a long damn time.

They just are mad that they can't act removed from it.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. If the Republicans are going to dump Trump this late in the game, they'd better move fast

It's the ninth inning, your team is down by six runs, there are two out and nobody's on base. Pulling out a win is a theoretical possibility, but not probable.

[underpants]

10. What time is it?.....GILMORE TIME!!!

The charm
The charisma
The cheating on his wife WHILE Governor
The vision (no car tax! Drill baby drill!)


FEEL THE GILMOREMENTUM!!!!

[C_U_L8R]

11. If Republicans were smart, they'd just stay home

There's nothing good for them in this Trump nonsense.
What a glorious disaster.

[mountain grammy]

12. So if they crown Cruz,

will he bring Carly along as his VP? These two are meant for each other.

[Herman4747]

13. That would be a NIGHTMARE for Hillary...

...she's counting on Trump, one of the few Republicans even more unpopular than she is.

[Stonepounder]

15. Seems to me that GOP voters

would go absolutely bananas if the GOP decodes to Dump Trump at this stage. It would basically be the GOP saying to the voters 'we let you have your primaries, but you didn't vote the way we wanted you to, so we are going to ignore your votes and run someone else'. I just don't see that playing well with the GOP base, let alone the undecideds.

So, they are screwed no matter what they do.

Extra butter on my popcorn, please.

[sarcasmo]

16. Kick

[TomCADem]

17. Is A Party Its Constituents and Voters or Its Leaders?

This idea that you can simply ignore the voters and hand pick a chosen one is what lead to the idea of super delegates for Democrats and unbound delegates for Republicans. The reality is that the majority of Republican voters like his racist, sexist message. Think of the father of the Stanford rape defendant with his "20 minutes of action" comment. I can see him voting for Trump.

[HuckleB]

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