As much as I hate the Democratic Party for its pusillanimousness, at least it isn’t the Republican Party.
A group of GOP leaders held a hush-hush meeting at a Washington, DC, restaurant to discuss the possibility of having a brokered convention next year so that they could find an alternative to Donald Trump, according to a report.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus held the meeting with establishment GOP honchos, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Washington Post reported.
They listened to other GOP bigwigs talk about how, if the billionaire New York developer scored a large number of delegates in the primaries, they could mount a floor fight and get the party to back some other candidate, the report said.
Those who attended the meeting “see a floor fight as a real possibility,” according to the Washington Post, and they talked about how a brokered convention would happen only if no candidate has enough delegates to win on the first ballot.
Priebus and McConnell said nothing during the meeting and did not signal support for any effort to oppose Trump, the 2016 GOP poll leader who has threatened to mount a third-party candidacy if he is not “treated fairly.”