Posted on 04/04/2016 6:48:46 AM PDT by xzins
Donald Trump continued his war with party bosses Sunday, once again saying that he wouldn’t rule out a third-party run if he failed to secure the GOP nomination and demanding that rival John Kasich drop out of the race.
“We’re going to have to see how I was treated. I’m going to have to see how I was treated. Very simple,” Trump said on “Fox News Sunday” when asked if he would categorically rule out running as a third-party independent candidate if he failed to win his party’s nomination. “It’s not a question of win or lose. It’s a question of treatment. I want to be treated fair.”
The comments came just days after Trump, Kasich and Ted Cruz backed out of pledges to support the GOP’s eventual nominee. Following the walk-backs, Trump met privately with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus in an apparent effort to smooth things over, but on Sunday, the hot-and-cold relationship appeared on the verge of fracturing once again.
“Those kinds of comments, I think, have consequences,” Priebus said on ABC’s “This Week” of Trump’s latest remarks. “When you make those kinds of comments, and you want people to fall in line for you, it makes it more difficult.”
In yet another interview, Priebus admitted he wasn’t sure whether he felt the former businessman was the party’s best candidate.
“I don’t know,” Priebus said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Listen, I don’t worry about who is the strongest candidate.”
Further suggesting Trump was undeterred by the criticism were demands he made during a rally in Wisconsin — whose pivotal primary on Tuesday will put for up grabs another 96 delegates — that Kasich drop out of the GOP race.
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the establishment is not getting it.
Here in our state Molly we know and have heard people who are fed up of the establishment and the way they are treating Trump, sign a pledge , but we don’t honor it.
We the people are more and more fed up of their corruption and this is a perfect example of them taking our state for granted.
Loser FL you lose to Clinton and the White House, so the cruz voters from other states and the establishment had better wake up
“Trump isn’t a Republican and never has been one.” - This is just patently false. Starting out as a liar is never a good thing.
“His supporters will probably jump ship if he isn’t nominated but a lot of other Republicans will jump ship if he is nominated.” - We’ll surely see which way the wind blows on this.
“The GOP will probably lose this election either way but the party itself will cease to exist as we know it if Trump is its leader.” - If the GOPe screws Trump and the millions upon millions of voters he represents, then the Republicans will definitely lose the election and should rightly be terminated with extreme prejudice as a political party. This won’t happen, though, if Trump is the candidate. The better bet is that the Republican Party will expand its influence to a magnitude not seen since the end of the Civil War.
“If Trump is turned away then those “new” voters will simply go back to where they came from.” - Well, I’m not a “new” voter, having voted Republican all my long life, never casting a single vote for a Marxocrat, ever. But I can tell you that if Trump is screwed out of the nomination, then I will leave the Republican Party, bringing down all of the other Republican SOBs down-ticket that aided and abetted this anti-Trump travesty.
Hey, Brilliant! You’re an idiot! And probably a Cruzer. ...Same thing.
Never thought I would utter these words. But yes. Will vote 3rd party for trump. If it’s true that Cruz is stealing fairly won delegates, from the people’s vote, then I’m done with the party. And that will be forever. I will not vote for Cruz if he is truly doing what they say he is doing currently with the delegates in AZ.
I agree with Trump on the immigration issue but disagree with him on virtually every other issue where there is disagreement. If Trumps vision and personality are the new face of the GOP then to paraphrase Reagan, I did not leave the GOP the GOP left me. You can have Trump as your nominee if you want and can get a majority like you to support him but you’ll need to get him elected in November without me and a lot of long time Republicans like me who would similarly bail out.
“Meanwhile he has the GOPe and Cruz stealing delegates and the GOP blocking candidates instead of just letting there be s contest with a result by the voters.”
Stealing delegates. Interesting choice of words. You know, Trump can employ the same tactics, but is choosing not to. This is a blood sport and apparently Trump’s campaign is not configured to play this type of game. That’s not Cruz’s nor Kacish’s problem.
I like Tump. He needs to figure this out quick because time is running out and Cruz’s ground game is working.
Shutting up is not the way you expose the corrupt establishment! Trump is pulling away the shields and veils that have clouded crooked elections for years. The shenanigans MUST STOP. Either vote for Trump or kiss America goodbye! Cruz is a GLOBALIST! A GLOBALIST IS ANTI AMERICAN!
You apparently don’t know very many women. Otherwise you would know that the polls are pretty accurate.
I am disgusted.
“Cruz must quit now or Trump will run third party electing Hillary”
The best one went :”RE:” I am making promise, I will help Hillary campaign to defeat Lying Cruz and any GOP SOB who had endorse Lyin Cruz.”
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I don't find these arguments the least bit convincing.
people want a leader, a strong person, not a preacher or a snarky elitist , ivy league lawyer again.
As much as I personally like Ted Cruz he is way “too preachy” for most voters. We really need Donald Trump to be victorious and clean house...bigtime.
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And honestly I WANT to like Cruz. He was my first choice for a long time.
But with how he’s hopped into bed with the open-borders cabal, I’m pretty sure that they’re going to demand his political soul from him, and we’re going to end up with a liberal supermajority because of immigration even if he makes it into office.
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This place is humming thread to thread comment after comment from Trump whiners all upset that Cruz won't just surrender and instead will kick Trump's butt in WI tomorrow.
Its one tantrum after another.
Trump losing drives them nuts!
How funny. He is the terrorist and you know it.
“At this point, the RNC probably realizes that a Trump nomination would destroy the party from top to bottom, causing them to lose the House, Senate and state and local races as well.”
You, and many others like you, keep making this claim. But I haven’t seen any evidence or trends in the making to substantiate this position. It seems to me, and many others like me, that it is more likely that the Republican Party will be utterly destroyed if the GOPe screws Trump out of the nomination he legitimately won.
Every time Ted wins a primary you Trump's Chump's go nuts!
I been getting these ridiculous comments today that go like :
“Cruz must quit now or Trump will run third party electing Hillary”
The best one went :” I am making promise, I will help Hillary campaign to defeat Lying Cruz and any GOP SOB who had endorse Lyin Cruz.”
That is crazy. You say you are sick of liberals and you want Cruz to win? That’s insane. Cruz is pretty liberal and has proved that in this primary. Why should we give Ted the nominee when he’s losing?
Let it be based on delegates won in the primaries.
Then let it be won by already established rules.
Delegates supposed to be committed on the first ballot, have them be committed on the first ballot.
After that ballot, if necessary, let it be by the published rules.
That would be integrity. Anything to short circuit that would be a sign for me that the GOP had gone over the top.
And I’m not even counting their 24/7 intrigue via media in attacks against their own frontrunner.
“...the same as everyone else!!!”
I think that’s the point. Trump is being forced to endure a completely different process than “everyone else”. If ¡Jeb! Was the front runner would the GOP behave the same way? Of course not.
The game IS the problem and the fact that someone running for President with millions of more votes than others needs to know a GAME in addition is a good reason to burn that game down.
Let them speak plain, run it straight forward based on people’s votes and not party shenanigans.
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