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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere’s no longer any way for Republicans to boot Donald Trump from the ballot - WAPO
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/07/theres-no-longer-any-way-for-republicans-to-boot-donald-trump-from-the-ballot/More than 34,000 Republican voters have already cast their ballots for the 2016 general election according to the U.S. Election Project, 8,000 of them in the battleground state of North Carolina and another 5,000 in Florida. Not all of those ballots were cast for Donald Trump, it's safe to assume, but it's more than likely that most of them were. And that, in a nutshell, is why it's far too late for the Republican Party to dump Donald Trump from their ticket.
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) pulled his endorsement from the Republican nominee in June, but requested that the party go a step further in a tweet on Friday evening.
You may recall that we've been through this before. In early August, as Trump's poll numbers started to tank and as he was still embroiled in his fight with the parents of a Muslim soldier killed in Iraq, Republicans started murmuring about potentially replacing him as the nominee. The party can't simply call Donald Trump and tell him that he's no longer welcome; there are rules that guide how a nominee is replaced.
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There’s no longer any way for Republicans to boot Donald Trump from the ballot - WAPO (Original Post)
flamingdem
Oct 2016
OP
Trump's remark about Hillary taking money from governments which allow rape of women
Thinkingabout
Oct 2016
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Hugin
(33,148 posts)1. Huh? "... more than likely that most of them were."
How do they get that?
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)3. Well they don't have much choice
as Republican voters.
Hugin
(33,148 posts)4. Oh, yeah... I missed that way over there to the left.
I thought they were talking about all ballots cast and not only Republican ballots.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)2. Trump's remark about Hillary taking money from governments which allow rape of women
And other abuses, here is your man a trump, he is a zero, you should have kicked him to the curb long ago.
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