Republicans Could Cancel Primaries to Protect Trump From a Challenge

[MiniMe]

Don't know how good this source is, but wouldn't surprise me at all.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/gop-could-cancel-primaries-to-protect-trump-from-a-challenge.html?utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=fb&fbclid=IwAR3iEO5hDAc8JytYWwIL49YUkoJ-hNR2UvzApxtb6wWL755SEfuRYlPM8vM

Without question, one of the most important political stories of the last several years has been the near-total capitulation of the Republican Party to a takeover by Donald Trump. From tippy-top elites to the grassroots, the GOP is very much Trump’s party now, and that party’s long-dominant conservative wing is his political fortress. So among all Trump’s potential problems heading toward 2020, securing renomination would seem to be the least of them, even if possible rivals like John Kasich or even Mitt Romney fascinate political observers who can’t quite believe this eminently respectable party is in love with a crude and ideologically unreliable demagogue like the 45th president.

Presumably because this talk of a primary challenge to Trump won’t die, some of his loyal subalterns are discussing ways to make that impossible. Last month the buzz was over the South Carolina GOP chairman airing the idea of multiple states simply canceling their primaries to ensure Trump isn’t annoyed by a challenge, as the Washington Examiner reported:

Drew McKissick, chairman of the South Carolina GOP, said he doesn’t anticipate Trump would face a primary challenge and emphasized that the state party executive committee hasn’t held any formal discussions about the contest, dubbed “first in the South” and usually third on the presidential nominating calendar. But McKissick would pointedly not rule out canceling the primary, indicating that that would be his preference.



“We have complete autonomy and flexibility in either direction,” McKissick told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday. “Considering the fact that the entire party supports the president, we’ll end up doing what’s in the president’s best interest.”

[Vinca]

1. I hope they do. It would mean an immediate third party challenge.

[beachbum bob]

2. be hard to have all 50 states to go along with it AND the effect on GOP donors

may be huge as its apparent trump is not gaining new ones outside of russia

[GoCubsGo]

3. So, the fix is already in?

Or, are they willingly committing political suicide? I can't wait to find out what The Dregs of Humanity has on these assholes to cause them to remain so loyal to him that they are willing to destroy their party for him.

[tanyev]

4. Like a passenger on the Titanic tying themself to the ship.

Good luck with that.

[roamer65]

5. Please do, Trumpists.

That will be end of their party.

[malaise]

6. But they can't protect him from Mueller or Nancy P n/t