Trump gop unity

[jman123]

Thoughts

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

More grudgingly falling in line because running an alternate just hands the Dems the election.

[Xing]

To a degree, yes. Many Republicans (most?) would vote for a pile of manure with a (R) next to its name, and so those Republicans who don't like Trump are coming home to him. There are definitely some, probably more than in 2008 and 2012, that are not lining up behind him, and it's yet to be seen whether or not they will.

[Ljube]

Not yet, but it's happening.

[MK]

Softly. After seeing polls indicating that this guy might just win of course they are jumping on.  The worse thing for the nevertrump forces would be that he wins and they opposed the whole time.  You can pretty much say goodbuy to any political or elected office career.  These people wouldn't be able to get any jobs and for people like Graham he would be easily primaried.

[Mr. Morden]

The worse thing for the nevertrump forces would be that he wins and they opposed the whole time.  You can pretty much say goodbuy to any political or elected office career.  These people wouldn't be able to get any jobs and for people like Graham he would be easily primaried.

Many/most of them are either already retired from politics, or in their last year of office and not running again.  Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Christine Todd Whitman, Tom Ridge, etc.  They have no reason to care about any future job in politics, since they're retired.  They care more about their legacy.

And a good chunk of the rest are media people like Erick Erickson and Bill Kristol who likewise have no interest in running for office or working in a Republican administration.

[Meclazine for Israel]

They've got the opportunity of a lifetime if they do.

The Romanian hacker who got Hillary's emails will break his silence soon.

[MK]

The worse thing for the nevertrump forces would be that he wins and they opposed the whole time.  You can pretty much say goodbuy to any political or elected office career.  These people wouldn't be able to get any jobs and for people like Graham he would be easily primaried.

Many/most of them are either already retired from politics, or in their last year of office and not running again.  Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Christine Todd Whitman, Tom Ridge, etc.  They have no reason to care about any future job in politics, since they're retired.  They care more about their legacy.

And a good chunk of the rest are media people like Erick Erickson and Bill Kristol who likewise have no interest in running for office or working in a Republican administration.

Will act as if he was never a #nevertrumper the guy has 0 spine.    Your right about the rest but I was more talking about the Lindsay Grahams of the world .  Rubio, Cruz and others who want a future have to be careful of how to time their support.

[Mr. Morden]

Your right about the rest but I was more talking about the Lindsay Grahams of the world .  Rubio, Cruz and others who want a future have to be careful of how to time their support.

Neither Rubio nor Cruz ever said they wouldn't support Trump if he was the nominee, so I wouldn't count them as #NeverTrump.  Like I said, there really aren't that many #NeverTrump Republicans who currently hold political office and are not already in the process of retiring.  Most #NeverTrumpers are in the other categories I mentioned.

There are, however, many many current politicians attempting to hold some ridiculous middle ground, where they "support but don't endorse" the nominee, or something silly like that.  It's silly, but I actually don't think those people who try to split the difference will pay any price for it beyond 2016, regardless of who wins the presidential election.

[IceSpear]

To a degree, yes. Many Republicans (most?) would vote for a pile of manure with a (R) next to its name, and so those Republicans who don't like Trump are coming home to him. There are definitely some, probably more than in 2008 and 2012, that are not lining up behind him, and it's yet to be seen whether or not they will.

[IceSpear]

Softly. After seeing polls indicating that this guy might just win of course they are jumping on.  The worse thing for the nevertrump forces would be that he wins and they opposed the whole time.  You can pretty much say goodbuy to any political or elected office career.  These people wouldn't be able to get any jobs and for people like Graham he would be easily primaried.

I'm pretty sure Linds is going to retire.

[Adam Griffin]

The best poll thus far for Trump shows 13% or so of the GOP still not behind him, which is twice as high as it needs to be for things to be "normal".

I've been saying for awhile that I don't expect the GOP to be fractured come Election Day: they are still very much the party of "get in line"...even if one or more factions are prone every cycle to pitch a bloody fit and/or burn segments of the party down. The Chris McDaniel/Thad Cochran episode is probably the best recent example, and the mainliners are going to do the same thing as the Tea Party types in this circumstance. Look at how quickly all of this public fuss has faded and how difficult of a time the #NeverTrumpeteers are having finding any viable opposition. They're not going to stay home, they're not going to vote Democratic and they're not going to vote third-party.

[President Johnson]

A large number of establishment guys have surrendered to TRUMP.

[SillyAmerican]

To a degree, yes. Many Republicans (most?) would vote for a pile of manure with a (R) next to its name, and so those Republicans who don't like Trump are coming home to him. There are definitely some, probably more than in 2008 and 2012, that are not lining up behind him, and it's yet to be seen whether or not they will.

Hate to break it to you, but the exact same statement runs to both parties: Many Democrats (most?) would vote for a pile of manure with a (D) next to its name, and so those Democrats who don't like Clinton are coming home to her. There are definitely some, probably more than in 2008 and 2012, that are not lining up behind her, and it's yet to be seen whether or not they will.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

Softly. After seeing polls indicating that this guy might just win of course they are jumping on.  The worse thing for the nevertrump forces would be that he wins and they opposed the whole time.  You can pretty much say goodbuy to any political or elected office career.  These people wouldn't be able to get any jobs and for people like Graham he would be easily primaried.

I really think Graham will retire anyway. It seems like he's over it.

[ElectionsGuy]

The only people he hasn't unified are true conservatives who won't vote and DC elitists who are super emphasized in the out of touch media but minuscule in numbers. The GOP is the party of Trump.

[angus]

Hard to call unity when Trump still sickens the speaker of the house as well as the only two surviving Republican former presidents.  Still, many Republicans are coming around.  Voted not yet.

[The Mikado]

The NeverTrump crowd was always about a few dozen right wing media personalities and retired politicians, and almost none of whom have not backed down from being NeverTrump.

They represent no one outside of their sphere, though.

I don't think we will see the day when Rick Wilson, Liz Mair, William Kristol, Rich Lowry, John Podhoretz, Erick Erickson, Dana Loesch, and the rest of NeverTrump start supporting Trump. The point is that they're utterly irrelevant.

[Wisconsin+17]

Umm, NeverTrump here, NeverRomney either.

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Nope, the worse thing is to support him and then sink with the Trumptanic having sold out your principles.

[Ljube]

Umm, NeverTrump here, NeverRomney either.

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Nope, the worse thing is to support him and then sink with the Trumptanic having sold out your principles.

Nope, the worst thing is to have Hillary Clinton as President for at least four (probably eight) long years of hell.

[Wisconsin+17]

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and in 4 years, we replace Hillary with Cruz. Better to have *one* prolife party, not none.