Makes sense to me. The Republican party is blackmailing Trump so he is blackmailing them right back. I'm not sure anyone has done this to the Republican party before and survived it? IF he starts a third party what will it be called?
I think likely it would be called "The Populists" because that is what his movement is called. However, Bernie Sanders might do the same thing and he is a socialist populist which is different. So, maybe we will wind up with 4 parties after the conventions? But, what I find interesting is that both Sanders and Trump are both populists. They just go about it differently.
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Donald Trump again leaves open door to third-party bid
| CNN | - |
Washington
(CNN) Donald Trump is again declining to rule out launching an
independent bid for the White House, a decision that Trump says he has
not yet made but one that could scramble the November election.
Donald Trump again leaves open door to third-party bid
Story highlights
- Donald Trump is again declining to rule out launching an independent bid
- "I'm gonna have to see how I was treated. It's very simple," Trump said
Washington (CNN)Donald
Trump is again declining to rule out launching an independent bid for
the White House, a decision that Trump says he has not yet made but one
that could scramble the November election.
"I
want to run as a Republican. I will beat Hillary Clinton," he told
Fox's Chris Wallace in an interview set to air Sunday morning on "Fox News Sunday." Excerpts of the interview were released Friday night.
But
when pressed to definitively say he would not consider it, Trump added,
"I'm gonna have to see how I was treated. It's very simple."
Trump
has waffled throughout the campaign about whether he would actually run
a third-party campaign should he be denied the Republican nomination
or, as he puts it, be treated "unfairly" by the Republican National
Committee. In September, he signed a pledge to support the eventual Republican nominee for president -- whoever that may be -- but backed off that promise
at a CNN town hall event on Tuesday. Trump's two remaining challengers,
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, also distanced
themselves from that promise.
Though
he has led national polls soon after he announced his bid and has won a
majority of the contests so far, it is unknown if Trump will reach the
1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. He has frequently
floated the idea of bolting the party should the GOP establishment
somehow deny him a nomination that he believes he has rightly earned.
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