Thursday, March 17, 2016

First Read: GOP Facing Only Bad Choices

 
First Read is a morning briefing from Meet the Press and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
 
A Republican Party that's confronting only bad choices

It increasingly appears that the Republican Party faces only bad choices when it comes to the two biggest political stories in America -- the 2016 presidential race and President Obama nominating Merrick Garland to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. Regarding 2016, the GOP has two real options:

Acquiesce/surrender to Donald Trump, who is on track (though it's not a slam dunk) to obtain a majority of Republican delegates. The problem here? Almost every poll we've seen shows Trump to be the weakest GOP candidate to face Hillary Clinton.

Fight Trump to stop him from getting the 1237 delegates he needs. The problem? Trump has talked about "riots" if he's leading in delegates but is denied the nomination, and we don't think he's kidding. 

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Source: NBC News

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