Carson好样的，我果然没看走眼
共和党部分高层对Trump受选民爱戴很不安，有人计划让他赢不了党内选举。Carson表示，如果用了不尊重选民意见的手段让Trump落选，那么他将退出共和党。
GOP presidential contender Ben Carson said Friday he would consider boltingfrom the party if Republican leaders try to steer the party’s nominationtoward a candidate of their liking in a “brokered” convention.
Mr. Carson’s warning followed a report in The Washington Post that saidestablishment leaders are growing increasingly concerned about Donald Trump’s hard-charging bid for the GOP nomination.
The Post reported that GOP officials and establishment figures shared theirconcerns with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at adinner and urged him to be prepared to lay groundwork for the possibility ofa floor fight at the convention if Mr. Trump performs well in the primaries, but not well enough to wrap up the nomination in a first-ballot vote.
That scenario would open the door to a “brokered” convention, where theestablishment could coalesce around an alternative to Mr. Trump, the reportsaid.
Mr. Priebus did not endorse the idea, The Post reported.
“If this was the beginning of a plan to subvert the will of the voters andreplace it with the will of the political elite, I assure you Donald Trumpwill not be the only one leaving the party,” Mr. Carson said in a statementFriday.
“I pray that the report in The Post this morning was incorrect. If it iscorrect, every voter who is standing for change must know they are beingbetrayed. I won’t stand for it,” the retired neurosurgeon said.
Mr. Trump signed a “pledge” earlier this year vowing to support theeventual GOP presidential nominee and not to run as an independent candidateif he fails to win.
The New York billionaire, though, has recently taunted the GOP with anindependent bid after coming under fire over his calls for a ban on Muslimsentering the U.S. until the nation gets a better handle on stoppingterrorists from coming into the country.
“If they don’t treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect. Ifthey don’t treat me as the front-runner … if the playing field is notlevel, then certainly all options are open,” Mr. Trump told CNN this week.
Mr. Carson on Friday delivered a similar message, saying that if the “
powerful try to manipulate” the nomination process, than the RepublicanNational Convention in Cleveland next summer will be the party’s last.
“I am prepared to lose fair and square, as I am sure is Donald,” he said.“But I will not sit by and watch a theft. I intend on being the nominee. IfI am not, the winner will have my support. If the winner isn’t our nominee, then we have a massive problem. My campaign is about ‘We the People’ not‘They the Powerful.’ “
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