Ben Carson joins Donald Trump in threatening to leave GOP

[David_N]

TRUMP/CARSON 2016 :lamo
Ben Carson joins Donald Trump in threatening to leave GOP - CNNPolitics.com

Ben Carson on Friday took a page from Donald Trump's playbook by threatening to depart the Republican Party.

Ahead of Tuesday's GOP presidential debate, the retired neurosurgeon slammed the party after reports emerged that Republican insiders were discussing the possibility of deal-making to decide the eventual nominee at the Republican National Convention.

"If the leaders of the Republican Party want to destroy the party, they should continue to hold meetings like the one described in the Washington Post this morning," Carson said in a statement. "If this was the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of the voters and replace it with the will of the political elite, I assure you Donald Trump will not be the only one leaving the party."

 

[dimensionallava]

lol the GOP is just in free fall at this point.... they never recovered since the end of bush's term and they may literally dissolve as a national political party this year

 

[OrphanSlug]

It is probably raw speculation at this point what establishment GOP does at, or before, the convention in some sort of effort to broker deals, but honestly this comes up a fair bit and with this many in the field some are bound to complain about the "political elite." I still suspect Trump will jump ship if he falls behind in the State primaries, perhaps sometime late in March but we still have a bit of time to see that play out.