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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoward Schultz doesn't have a chance
He will get zero electoral college votes.
He will be nothing but a "spoiler".
But that won't stop the Republican owned television media from broadcasting him ad nauseam.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Cattledog
(5,915 posts)Trump ran as a Republican and won because he got 306 Electoral College votes.
No Independent can win. Even Trump knew this, that's why he ran as a Republican.
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Cattledog
(5,915 posts)And this Billionaire asshole is no George Washington.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)he is already walking back his timeline.
We haven't seen many people throwing their hats into the POTUS ring who have been as harshly panned as he has been when they have floated the idea.
Hard to see how he will want to spent a year and a half taking the shit he is going to take, and blowing good coin to take it.
Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)And treating his candidacy as if it was a joke contributed significantly to where we are right now.
Please don't make (encourage others to make) that mistake again.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Trump didn't run as an Independent.
Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)Everyone treated him as a joke, who could not possibly win.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)...I hope he doesn't run as an Independent.
I'll still be against him but he won't be splitting votes.
Ms. Toad
(34,074 posts)as long as that means he's not running at all.
I told people 45 was no joke the moment he came down the escalator, that he was a real threat to win the R nomination, and I called it over when he put a sleeper hold on it a year out from the actual election.
But, the reason he was a threat was that he was living embodiment of what "conservatism" devolved into.
I am a racist, bigoted, hateful, immoral scumbag, here me roar!
After decades of mealy mouthed politicians winking at it all, the pods tripped over themselves to vote for the real deal.
This guy has no appeal anywhere.
Policy wise he is more libertarian than anything else.
That is the 3% electoral market he appeals to policy wise. And, he has no policy he is a few days into merely floating the idea and is already acting like a churlish douche.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And you will get a latte of sympathy here.
tenderfoot
(8,437 posts)And that he's gotten free air time.