Mitt Romney Is Trying To Recruit Mark Cuban To Thwart Donald Trump With Third-Party Run

[Purveyor]

Now we know just how freaked out some Republicans are about Donald Trump leaving the GOP convention this summer with the party's nomination.

According to a Washington Post report, Mitt Romney is leading a group of disgruntled Republicans trying to recruit Mark Cuban and/or others to launch a third-party run.

From the Post report:

" ... 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."

The talk of a third-party candidate comes with the usual warnings. Such a run could further splinter the Republican party, and the person who runs would risk forever being known as the candidate who opened the doors to White House for Hillary Clinton.

So maybe it wasn't surprising that Cuban, who has dropped more than a few crumbs suggesting he might one day dabble in politics, said no thanks.

But Romney & Co. aren't stopping with Cuban, the billionaire entrepreneur and star of "Shark Tank." Other targets have included John Kasich, the last Republican to bow out of the primary race against Trump, and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, a vocal critic of Trump's.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/mitt-romney-is-trying-to-recruit-mark-cuban-to-thwart-donald-trump-with-third-party-run/

[andym]

1. Interesting that Romney won't run himself

He knows it would be a suicide mission, so he is recruiting.

[Purveyor]

2. Don't be too sure he isn't. Speculation I heard was to run a candidate not to win the election but

to throw it to clinton.

They would only run the candidate in a few selected key states that Trump is likely to win in order to turn the state blue.

[Renew Deal]

3. That and he would look like a manipulative opportunist.

[JCMach1]

4. BS piece, Cuban will never run against Trump...

someone else ???