http://www.npr.org/2016/03/16/470715913/why-the-presidential-primary-race-is-far-from-over
SHAPIRO: Riots - well, as we are hearing elsewhere in the program, some conservatives are pushing to form a third party. There is no modern history of success there. What can they realistically gain by this effort?
LIASSON: Well, the strategy is to get conservatives and Republicans who won't vote for Trump or Clinton to come out and vote for Republicans for House and Senate. Otherwise, if they stay home, Republicans could lose down ballot. In last night's exit polls, 2 out of 5 Republican voters in every state but Florida told pollsters they would consider voting for a third party.
This really is a last resort if Trump can't be stopped at the convention. And we may be witnessing something that we've never seen in over a hundred years, which is
the potential breakup of a major political party or at least the utter transformation of the Republican Party.
And Sally Bradshaw, who was the Florida Republican who ran Jeb Bush's campaign, said to Politico this week - she said, quote, "
Donald Trump has done to the Republican Party what the killer comet did to the dinosaurs."
It's all over but the smoking ruins, folks.
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