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Originally Posted by bob
Someone sent this to me over IM.... any chance of it happening:
"I just read the "republican go nuclear option" and it's fascinating. They could pick their establishment choice to run as a "third party" in November and hope and pray that neither Trump, Hillary, or the third party get enough of the required 270 electoral college votes. If that happens the US House of Reps gets to pick from the 3 choices and they would obviously pick the third party as President."
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Sure. It could happen. But it is not likely.
No one getting to 270 is great for establishment GOP. That part seems clear.
But I am not sure how a right wing third party helps that. It seems like instead of having states go 52-48 Hillary over Trump or 52-48 Trump over Hillary, you would have a lot of states go 52-28-20 Hillary or 48-30-22 Hillary.