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Title: Trump: GOP Infighting May Force Me To Run
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CBS
URL Source: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/01/2 ... nfighting-may-force-me-to-run/
Published: Jan 29, 2012
Author: CBS
Post Date: 2012-01-29 22:39:48 by Brian S
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Views: 3683
Comments: 5
PALM BEACH (CBSMiami) – Real estate mogul Donald Trump, who dropped out of the GOP presidential race months before the first primary, now said he may reluctantly be forced to run as a third party candidate, a decision revealed Sunday on a special Miami broadcast of the CBS News program Face The Nation. In an interview conducted Saturday night at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach with Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, Trump blasted Republican infighting, saying was hurting the party’s chances to beat President Obama in 2012. “I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s Republican against Republican, and yet the level of hatred, I guess you could say, I mean, there’s no other word for it, is unbelievable,” he told Schieffer. “The question is, are they hurting themselves? Are they hurting the party? Are they hurting the Republicans, and are they hurting their chances of winning an election against Barack Obama? And probably the answer is yes.” While Trump said he thinks Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are both candidates who could beat President Obama, his concern about the infighting has him thinking how he might try to change the game if the GOP candidates weaken. “I don’t see a person that, number one, is going to win,” he said, he may be forced to mount his own campaign.”I think people dislike the Republicans and the Democrats more than they ever have,” he added. “So I actually think the right Independent could win, and there was a poll about a month ago, you saw it, where I was the number one Independent choice.” Trump cannot run for a major party because of the reality show he hosts. “It’s a very sad situation what’s happening to the country and I do say that and I say many other things and somehow it resonates with a lot of people and that’s why they, you know, would like me to run,” Trump continued. “I hope I don’t have to, but I may absolutely.”
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
It is starting to seem like Trump has tourettes syndrome. Instead of yelling obscenities he just talks about running for President.
I hope he does. Need a new 'side-show'...the current act is getting old.
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
Ratings must be low for him to come up with this song and dance.
Ron Paul/Donald Trump, for the third party win?
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Other than Florida and maybe one or two other states, the GOP primaries are no longer winner take all. If all four candidates stay in the race and continue to do about as good as they've been doing, no one will have enough delegates to win the nomination. Then we'll see a brokered convention with someone like Mitch Daniels or Jeb Bush stepping in to take the nomination.
#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
running for President.
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
Trump cannot run for a major party because of the reality show he hosts.
#4. To: Brian S, *Ron Paul for President* (#2)
Need a new 'side-show'...the current act is getting old.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
Iran’s main drive for acquiring atomic weapons is not for use against Israel but as a deterrent against U.S. intervention -- Major General Zeevi Farkash, head of the Israeli Military Intelligence Directorate
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