http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/doors-gop-consulting-independent-219859
Conservative donors have engaged a major GOP consulting firm in
Florida to research the feasibility of mounting a late, independent run
for president amid growing fears that Donald Trump could win the
Republican nomination.
A memo prepared for the group zeroes in on ballot access as a looming
obstacle for any independent candidate, along with actually identifying
a viable, widely known contender and coalescing financial support for
that person. The two states with the earliest deadlines for independent
candidates, Texas and North Carolina, also have some of the highest
hurdles for independents to get on the ballot, according to the
research.
“All this research has to happen before March 16, when inevitably
Trump is the nominee, so that we have a plan in place,” a source
familiar with the discussions said. March 16 is the day after the GOP
primary in Florida, a winner-take-all contest that Marco Rubio
supporters have identified as a must-win to stop Trump’s early momentum.
Some other flunky Republican-as-3rd-Party candidate would simply take
votes from Trump, making it more likely that Clinton would win. These
guys don’t think that their candidate will have a snowball’s chance in
Hell of winning.
In other words, these Republicans would rather have Clinton for President than Trump, and they’re working to make that happen.
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