Actually I think Trump should be the head of a political party anyhow. I don't think he will be elected no matter what. But, he has a lot to say like Ralph Nader and Perot did in the past. So, I would like to see him at the head of a new political party. I feel the same way about Bernie Sanders too. They both have really important things to say and aren't just completely full of shit and political correctness like most politicians who are Republicans and Democrats normally are.
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Trump refuses to rule out third-party run if he doesn't land GOP nomination
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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.
Trump refuses to rule out third-party run if he doesn’t land GOP nomination
BY Adam Edelman
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Updated: Sunday, April 3, 2016, 4:43 PM
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Scott Olson/Getty Images Donald Trump said on Sunday that his running as a third-party independent candidate if he fails to win his party’s nomination will depend on how he’s treated.
“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.
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“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.”
Priebus took further aim at the front-runner, saying on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the party’s candidates must “watch their mouth.”
“Candidates have to watch their mouth, they have to watch their tone and their tenor,” he said, without mentioning Trump. “The only way you can be the party of the open door is if you keep that in mind.”
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.”
Ben Carson, too, offered a thinly veiled warning about the front-runner, whose bid he endorsed last month after ending his own campaign.
“He has some major defects, there’s no question about it — just like the rest of us. But I think he is willing to listen to other people. He may not say that publicly because there is a humility issue there that could perhaps use some polishing,” the retired neurosurgeon said of Trump on “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970.
“Are there better people (for the nomination)?” Carson added. “Probably.”
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz hugs his wife Heidi — who was recently the subject of one of Donald Trump's tasteless Twitter attacks.
The warnings, however, didn’t appear to result in the mogul backing down from the bombast that has largely defined his rise.
In a bizarre, wide-ranging interview published Saturday night in The Washington Post, Trump predicted the U.S. economy was moving toward a “very massive rescission” due to “an economic bubble” — a notion not supported by the latest economic data — and insisted he would be able to eliminate the entire $19-trillion U.S. national debt “over a period of eight years” by renegotiating trade deals.
Most economists, however, have said that a trade war that would likely result from reneging on the deals would destroy the U.S. economy.
In addition, shrinking the U.S. debt to virtually nothing over eight years, would likely require cutting more than $2 trillion from the annual $4-trillion budget to actually pay off debt holders — another virtually impossible task.
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.
“He’s taking my votes,'” Trump said about the Ohio governor, who has so far only won his home state.
Trump did, however, appear to soften his edge at least a small bit Sunday, offering an unprecedented show of humility.
During his “Fox News Sunday” interview, Trump admitted he was in the middle of a rough patch.
“Was this my best week? I guess not,” he said, explaining that he “would have rather answered” a question about abortion last week “in a different manner.”
Trump found himself in hot water last Thursday after he suggested during a town hall with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that women who receive abortions should be punished.
Furthermore, Trump, during an interview with The New York Times published Saturday, admitted “it was a mistake” to retweet an image that juxtaposed an unflattering photo of Ted Cruz’s wife Heidi next to an image from a photo shoot of his wife Melania, a former model.
“If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t have sent it,” Trump said.
With News Wire Services
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