Trump was just on Hannity. He explained that he was using the 3rd party run as leverage against the establishment. Why didn’t the mods ask the other candidates if they would support Trump if he got the nomination? Trump is shrewd and wants to be treated fairly and with respect as any other candidate. It makes me sick they still call Huckabee and Bush Governor - they are EX governors, and both have been out of office many years.
I wanted one of them to ask, “Let’s have a show of hands. Take the pledge and raise your hand if you promise to dismantle the welfare state. Raise your hand if you promise to dismantle public education. Raise your hand if you promise to end fractional-reserve banking. Raise your hand if you promise to privatize Social Security? Health care. Raise your hand if you promise to revert to the gold standard.” And on and on.
Trump does not dare relent from the possibility that he will run as third party. If he does he loses all leverage and they will run on him like junk iron and WILL surely destroy him. He is a lone man in a lion’s den. Huckabee and Cruz and Carson are the only decent men who recognized it and gave a damn about that tonight. Hannity knew it too. They do not feel sorry for Trump, Trump can probably take care of himself and will be fine but they didn’t like the lopsided inequity of it.
I believe addressing them as governor is one of those rules of etiquette. I don’t remember exactly what it is, but it has to do with addressing people with the highest title they’ve attained during their career.