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In reply to the discussion: More and more likely: A third-party "real Republican" candidate for president. [View all]JimDandy
(7,318 posts)Their Independent candidate will be a Republican who is acceptable to 1980's style Republicans, religious conservatives and the Koch brothers. Their aim in running their candidate is to actually shoot for the required 270 electoral college votes, but, at the very least, the candidate must be capable of simply getting the most votes of all 3 candidates. This is so that, if it is necessary for the Republican-held House of Representatives to choose the candidate, the House will be presented with a clear winner, which not only gives them the legitimate cover to choose that Republican candidate, but satisfies the need of the country for the president to be cloaked in the mantle of democracy.
They are going to run large numbers of negative ads that lump Clinton and Trump together, on issue after issue, and feature photos of the two together. Their candidate needs to be morally unassailable, especially sex scandal wise in order to pull this off.