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Really more of a never-was than a has-been, imo. Dems already had a McGovern ...

it's getting hot in congress right now:

Paul Ryan rejects Trump’s KKK comments, but not his candidacy if he wins GOP nomination

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powe...kkk-david-duke/

Across the Senate and House this week, a broad sense of despair settled in among most rank-and-file Republicans that Trump is stampeding toward the nomination. Ryan has not endorsed another candidate in the race, nor has McConnell.

The Senate leader paid a rare visit Tuesday morning to Ryan’s House caucus, and the issue of the presidential campaign never came up, according to lawmakers leaving the huddle. McConnell talked about his opposition to moving forward with President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, and rank-and-file lawmakers asked questions about the budget process.

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Social conservatives are among the most distraught Republicans inside the Capitol, wary of Trump’s long record of supporting Democrats who favor abortion rights and gay marriage.

“It’s not time to raise the white flag just yet. But there’s a moment in the life of every problem like this, when it’s big enough for reasonable people to see and still small enough to be addressed. That window is closing,” Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.), one of the leading antiabortion lawmakers, said after Tuesday’s meeting.

Franks is unaligned in terms of the presidential race. Like most Republicans, including Ryan, Franks said Tuesday that he would support Trump as the nominee — but only because he cannot stand the Democratic front-runner, Hillary Clinton.


“If it comes down to a vote between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the equation is simple: Conservatives cannot trust Donald Trump to do the right thing, but we can definitely trust Hillary Clinton to do the wrong thing, so I will vote for Donald Trump,” he said.

Ryan also said he would support the person Republican voters select as their nominee.

“I plan to support the nominee,” Ryan said. “I think I’ve said enough this morning about what’s happening right now. My plan is to support the nominee.”

McConnell has previously said he would support the Republican presidential nominee, and he did not revise that stance under questioning Tuesday: “Beyond what I just said, I’m going to continue to avoid weighing in on the presidential contest at this point.”

He was asked about a New York Times report published over the weekend indicating that he had privately told his Senate colleagues that GOP senators would drop Trump “like a hot rock” were he to become the presidential nominee.

“I don’t remember saying anything like that to all of you,” McConnell said.

After he was pressed by a reporter, he changed his emphasis slightly: “I don’t remember saying anything like that to all of you.”

Given this dejected state, some Republicans are hoping to rally conservatives around Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as the alternative to Trump. So far 57 congressional Republicans have backed Rubio, according to the Hill newspaper’s tally, which is easily the largest haul inside the Capitol.

However, the groundswell for Rubio has hit limits and there are questions about whether his appeal is broad enough. Perhaps most emblematic of that is the non-endorsement of Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.).

Corker has served on the Foreign Relations Committee the past five years with Rubio, the past three as the most senior Republican on the panel. In debates and on the stump, Rubio cites his work on that committee as evidence of his readiness to handle global affairs in the Oval Office.

On Monday evening, Corker refused to reveal whom he voted for in Tuesday’s Tennessee primary. “My wife doesn’t even know whom I voted for,” he said.


Corker’s internationalist world view clashes sharply with Trump’s protectionist positions, and the senator has also publicly clashed with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), a Republican presidential candidate, on many issues, leaving almost no one other than Rubio who shares similar policy positions. “We have a lot of people throughout the state that have worked hard for various candidates. And I just thought early on that I would probably not endorse,” Corker said.

Another mainstream conservative, Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), whose views put him against Trump and Cruz, said he was not prepared to endorse. “I do like Marco, yeah, you know, I’ve said that all along. But at this point I’m going to just go with our nominee, let Republicans make that call,” he said. “We’ve got a ways to go yet, this is yet to be decided.”

Trump’s rise has also thrown off Rubio’s supporters regarding the “#nevertrump” campaign that he is promoting online. While some Republicans have declared they would not support Trump, others aren’t willing to say that yet.

“I am a ‘Never Hillary’ person, that is the only position I have taken on a ‘never.’ We’ll see how the rest of this plays out. I am strongly pro-Marco Rubio,” Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho) said.

Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), who supports Rubio, rejected having a conservative run as an independent if Trump wins the nomination.

“I think a third option would give the White House to Hillary Clinton, and I’m not about to do that. Her first action as president would be to nominate a liberal progressive Supreme Court justice, that’s what’s at stake here, and we can’t forget that,” she said.

Mike DeBonis contributed to this report.

j/c

Everyone is assuming Hillary won't be charged. There's still a decent chance of that happening.

If she IS charged, I'm sure her money will get her out of it.

Are we sure it's "lock" between trump and hillary?

you holding on to what little hope you have.

Hoping Cruz or Kasich get considered for VP.

First of all, it would be "You are holding on....."

Secondly, I have no hope for this election.

You generalize a lot.

Now, come over so 40 can throw a wet blanket on you.

Super Tuesday results for Republicans:

http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/super-tuesday-gop/


Super Tuesday results for Democrats:

http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/super-tuesday-dem/

Cruz crushing it in Texas, Trump crushing everything else so far.

I can't believe Ben Carson is ahead in all those states!

grammar police now?

you really have no hope. hilary is gonna be president man. if not her, bernie.

Ben is killing it softly with his song.

I read your post and thought What?!

Then I looked at the links and got a good chuckle. Heck, a downright guffaw!

So Cruz is getting Texas, but it's not a runaway like i thought.

Time for Carson and Kasich to bow out. Rubio might as well go.

Carson should have been gone for awhile now.

There is no reason for any of the others to drop out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/upshot...p-news&_r=2

Not really. Using proper grammar is fairly simple. Even on a message board.

man you got nothing, so you had to resort to being the grammar police?

lol, Hilary in the WH. love it. embrace it. deal with it.

Fixed it.

What are you talking about?

I "got nothing"?

Hey, in essays or papers for college, do you write like that?

no, and since i'm not writing a paper, i can type however i want.

if it's a problem, there's an ignore button.

He did finish Turd in Virginia.

Trump is taking a good number of bible belt states. Thought Cruz was gonna take more than 3. he's only got Texas as a lock right now.

Cruz takes Texas, leads in OK.

They just called Oklahoma for Cruz.

Trump has 5 of the 11 states so far.

Clinton has 6 of 11 so far.

Sanders takes Oklahoma.

Tight battle between cruz and trump in the most jacked up state in the country: Alabama.

So far, trump is leading 8 of 11 states.

hilary leading 7 of 11.

The Republicans are going to die a slow death. Today is just allowing them all to stay in the race even longer (except poor Ben Carson).

there was an article talking about Cruz's campaign was based around super tuesday.

yea...that didn't exactly go as planned. He got his state and squeaked out oklahoma. thats it.

This has been kind of boring.

The frozen state of Minnesota doesn't like Trump.

It's pretty bad when the populace prefers Jesse Ventura to Trump.

He's going to get the second most delegates though. That's a "win" for him.



http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/super-tuesday-primaries-presidential-election-2016/

Why?, I don't care about the 2nd part, just the 1st part.

Why?

it's a joke

Bernie takes Colorado. Too many Californians moving here.

If your theory holds true, then Bernie should win California (not gonna happen).

Bernie should do well in states with a lot of stoners.

I have never ever heard of American Samoa until tonight. It's like they invented new states for this event.