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Sat Dec 12, 2015, 04:50 AM Dec 2015

TYT: Republican Establishment Planning Party Coup If Voters Pick Trump



GOP leaders met this week to discuss what to do if they end up next year with a contested convention... if they have to use political tricks to block Donald Trump. The GOP apparently doesn’t mind ignoring the will of their voters. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), and Mark Thompson, hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"More than 20 top GOP officials discussed at a dinner on Monday the party’s strategy in the event of a brokered convention amid Donald Trump’s consistent lead in the polls.

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) listened as several longtime party members argued the establishment must lay the groundwork for a floor fight if Trump storms through the presidential primaries, five sources familiar with the meeting told The Washington Post.

The sources said Priebus and McConnell were mostly silent during the deliberation and did not signal support for an explicit anti-Trump effort.

But both men did acknowledge that a stalemated convention is something the party should be ready for.”*

Read more here: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262850-gop-prepares-for-brokered-convention-amid-steady-trump
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