Inside the GOP effort to draft an independent candidate to derail Trump
WASH POST
A
band of exasperated Republicans — including 2012 presidential nominee
Mitt Romney, a handful of veteran consultants and members of the
conservative intelligentsia — is actively plotting to draft an
independent presidential candidate who could keep Donald Trump from the
White House.
These GOP figures are commissioning private polling,
lining up major funding sources and courting potential contenders,
according to interviews with more than a dozen Republicans involved in
the discussions. The effort has been sporadic all spring but has
intensified significantly in the 10 days since Trump effectively locked
up the Republican nomination.
Those involved concede that an
independent campaign at this late stage is probably futile, and they
think they have only a couple of weeks to launch a credible bid. But
these Republicans — including commentators William Kristol and Erick
Erickson and strategists Mike Murphy, Stuart Stevens and Rick Wilson —
are so repulsed by the prospect of Trump as commander in chief that they
are desperate to take action.
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