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In reply to the discussion: More and more likely: A third-party "real Republican" candidate for president. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)mainly a marketing campaign for "true" conservative values, restyled for what focus groups say appalled mainstream pubs want to hear now? Designed both to split the presidential vote but also to achieve as many down-ticket victories as possible?
Although, of course, they'd love to throw the election to the GOP-controlled House, if that was really possible, shouldn't they would have gotten moving as soon as they realized Trump was likely to win?
The original discussion I heard was just of the GOP considering what they had to do to keep Trump from becoming president. They realized that they had created Frankenstein and they had to stop him from rampaging in the GOP house -- with the nuclear codes. Just to block him and repair a lot of the damage so far, they could let the GOP voters know this wonderful shining "real Republican" candidate knew he probably could not win but was running FOR conservative values -- because someone has to stand up for them, yada-yada. A lot of conservatives right now have no one to vote for, even symbolically.