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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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