Donald Trump said Monday that he has “his ducks in line” to mount a third-party run for the presidency if the GOP candidate nominates the “wrong candidate.”
“I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I’d love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, make America great again,” Trump told “Fox & Friends.”
He also said he’s never seen another nomination contest as up in the air and volatile as the 2012 Republican race, saying it was “crazy” to see Ron Paul leading in several polls in Iowa.
“I think when somebody like Ron Paul gets such a large percentage of the vote potentially, I look at the polls, and I think it’s absolutely madness to even think about it,” Trump said. “I just see the candidates go up and down, it’s like yo-yos, they go up and down, they’re gone, they’re forever forgotten, then they re-emerge. What’s going on is very strange. I don’t think I’ve seen anything like it and I’ve been following politics for a long time.”
Trump said he knew about activists in Texas who filed paperwork to create the “Make America Great Again Party” for him to run as an independent.
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All he will accomplish is to get Obama re-elected. He will pull votes that should go to a republican caqndidate and throw the election. This is nothing more than a publicity stunt and he needs to be denied!
Donald, Stay Home, You are the Yo-Yo here, you will succeed in throwing the election to obama and then what ? you’ll be back to business as usual, as will obama, I think the reason you didn’t get “All In” when the GOP started fielding candidates is because you were afraid that You might actually win the republican nomination ! I mean how else could you get your boy back in the white house any more effectively than running as a third party candidate
I can’t understand why Trump don’t run as a Democrat! He gives more money and backs more Democrat things than Republican things, maybe he is “straddling” the tracks..so he’s both!!
The GOP is wanting a “Goood Old boy” in Wash. so that means any of the three RINO Republican men.
None are Conservatives, so both Dems and Rep’s are moving farther and farther LEFT!! We have no true Conservatives, and the only one that will keep us our freedoms is Ron Paul, and I dislike him intensely!! but I do support him!
Let me get this straight… Trump is now publically saying that he’s willing to sabotage the Obama opposition in the upcoming election? Red flags and flashing red lights people… this guy wants Obama back in the White House. He is the poster child for Corporatist insider. He has no intention of being President. Why sit on the hot seat when he’s given a platform in the balcony from which to lob rhetorical bombs at any real opposition to Obama? Note that his venom is clearly aiming at Ron Paul alone… that just shows that Ron Paul is the most serious opposition to the others AND Obama. Its understandable that the media would continue to put up this charade as though Trump somehow represents the universal sentiment of conservative voters and the GOP… they’re all for a wolf in sheep’s clothing leading GOP voters astray. The real story is how the GOP establishment (and Bachmann?) give him any credibility and even seek an audience with him. That is a tell-tale sign of who’s rotten to the core, IMO.
I totally agree…he has given a lot of $ to the dems in the past.