Photo illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast
By Betsy Woodruff
A group of powerful
conservatives met Thursday to try to hammer out a plan for a potential
third-party consensus candidate if Trump becomes the GOP nominee.
The team that brought you Santorum 2016 has decided to stop Trump.
He must be petrified.
For seven hours on Thursday, a few dozen conservative leaders gathered in an upstairs room of the Army Navy Club off K Street in downtown Washington, D.C. to rack their collective brains—but reached no conclusion on how to thwart the billionaire’s rise.
Quin Hillyer, a National Review
contributing editor, fielded questions afterwards from print reporters
and a Chinese camera crew, explaining that the group hoped all the 2016
presidential candidates who haven’t endorsed Trump will coalesce behind a
unity ticket. He added that there wasn’t a consensus that conservatives
should unite behind Cruz.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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