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2. Voters in old GOP establishment bastion have no taste for 'Stop Trump'

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Tue Mar 29, 2016, 03:05 PM

Mar 2016

Rick Hampson, USA TODAY 5:36 p.m. EDT March 28, 2016

TOWANDA, Pa. — Northeastern Pennsylvania was in the vanguard of the Republican establishment’s attempts to stop outsider Barry Goldwater in ’64 and outsider Ronald Reagan in ’76. But party regulars here aren’t leading the Stop Trump movement — they’re incensed by it ...

Dan Meuser and Chris Hackett are Republican businessmen who once ran against each other for Congress. Meuser says the campaign to deny Trump the nomination at the national convention “just increases his support. People feel, ‘You’re still not taking us seriously.’’’ Hackett agrees: “The harder they try to stop Trump, the more likely he is to succeed’’ ...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/28/donald-trump-republican-establishment-northeast-pennsylvania/82337778/

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