Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Growing Number Of GOP Politicians Refuse To Back Donald Trump In The General Election
Republicans from across the spectrum are speaking out against Trump and his growing potential for presidency. Trump is essentially dividing the GOP more and more with his popularity. As some Republicans are vowing to not support him, others are criticizing those turning their backs on their party if he is the nominee. Do you believe that party allegiance should play a role in who people support? Why or why not? The article mentions Chris Christie's recent backing of Trump. Do you think this has the potential to help or hurt Trump? Will his support have any effect? Lastly, in your opinion, what are some possible outcomes for the GOP if Trump gets the nomination. Do you think they will be able to keep their party together or are we witnessing the demise of the Republican Party?
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I hope that people can see the danger that Trump poses to America. He's threatening to deport millions of Americans and build a wall to prevent more from coming in! How badly will this man embarass us as a nation if he is our chief executive? I am very glad that so many of the GOP's elected officials and supporters refuse to endorse Trump because I would hope that their loyalty to their country's wellbeing would be greater than their loyalty to their party. Secondly, I think that Christie backed Trump because he didn't want to back Rubio, but I do not think that this will have a hug effect on Trump's campaign. I believe that, if Trump gets the nomination, the Republican Party will split and there will be a second runner. Then there will probably be calls for reform to the election process so that this doesn't happen again. We might even end up getting rid of the primary system, although I do not think that the American electorate will go for it.
ReplyDeleteI think people should realize that if Trump was elected as President it would not be good. He poses incredible danger to Ameirca and should not be president. He is going to make millions of Americans be deported which is insane and build a barrier to prevent them from coming back in. That is unbelievable to me and I hope people realize that he shouldn't be president. This man is already a disgrace he shouldn't even be considered as running for president, in my opinion. I'm happy to see many elected officials don't support him and won't back him up in his campaign for presidency. I only think Christie backed up Trump becasue he didn't want to back up Rubio and that was a situation where hit didn't have too much affect on the campaign. If Trump is elected president, it will be crazy and nothing will go well. His views of where he wants to take America isn't right and this needs to be put to a stop before he gets the actual chance to become president. He will be constantly altering our governemnt system which is perfectly fine how it is and changing policies that don't need to be changed.
ReplyDeleteParty allegiance shouldn't really have a role in determining who people support. People should support the candidate that they agree with the most on issues, the one they think is most worthy of leading the country. Most of the time, this preferred candidate coincides with their party affiliation, but for elections such as this one, many Republicans should realize the danger Trump poses to our country, and that they should not vote for him. I don't Chris Christie's backing of Trump will have any lasting effect on Trump's campaign. Rather, Christie's endorsement of Trump is going to have a negative effect on Christie. If Trump gets the nomination, which will most likely happen, the Republican party will most likely split. There is just so much division in the party caused by Trump that it would be extremely difficult for them to find some sort of compromise or work the issue out.
ReplyDeleteI don't think party allegiance should play a vast role in who people support. I doubt that anyone's ideals are fully in sync with their party's ideals. People try to find the candidate that best fits what they think is important, and I don't think that voters should be limited to choose who they back from within their party. I don't think Christie's backing will help Trump that much considering Christie is pretty much disgraced and his reputation tarnished after the bridge scandal allegations. It might help in that it boosted publicity coverage as Christie was the first high-profile political person to back Trump. If Trump wins the nomination, the GOP will have to find a way to compromise and work together with him. I don't think the party will disband purely because then it would just be the organized Democratic Party left virtually unchallenged.
ReplyDeleteThe political parties help to give voters an idea for candidates they may support, but they shouldn't tell people exactly who to vote for. Most people have political views that cross over with multiple candidates, so in that case party allegiance isn't going to play an important role in who they vote for. I don't think Christie's supporting of Trump is really going to help or hurt him.
ReplyDeleteIf Trump gets the nomination, there is the possibility of the party splitting, but I think it's more likely that they will compromise and find a way to work together.
My hope is that this fascination with Trump is media and entertainment. Once (if) it gets to the general election, most people will come to their sense and realize that this is real and not funny at all anymore. Even Republicans, even Rubio, is saying that Republicans should vote Democratic if Trump is the republican candidate. I think certainly the moderate republicans will do this, especially if Clinton ins the democratic nominee. If Sanders is the democratic nominee, it will be very interesting as it will be two extremes against each other. Most moderates might not vote at all as they can not associate with either side.
ReplyDeleteI believe that with or without the nomination Trump will divide the GOP party. He has stated that he’d run with or without the nomination and even with the nomination he has enough strong resistance that a good portion of the Republican voters will not vote for him. Many have already said that because of him running the Democrats have already clinched the presidential position. Trump is controversial and at times dramatic. This has caused the drastically different opinions about him within the republican voters. I don’t think anyone endorsing him will change how people already view the man. I think the Republican Party is a mess right now and wont be able to recover in time for the closing months of the election.
ReplyDeleteParty allegiance should not play a role in who people support. People should support candidates they agree with, regardless of either the voter's party or the candidate's party. Often, beliefs and parties will align, but when they don't, a voter shouldn't feel compelled to vote for a particular candidate simply because he is also a member of the same party. Like so many other things that happen concerning Trump, I think that, like everything else, Christie's nomination will become a non-issue. No matter what Trump does, he retains his voter base while failing to capture any other voters. With Christie's lack of popularity, his endorsement of Trump will most likely fail to help at all, but it won't hurt either. I want to go on record saying that, if Trump gets the nomination, the Democratic candidate will win. This is because, while a majority of Republican voters will fall in line behind whoever the nominee is, turn out among Republicans who aren't Trump supporters will be low while Democratic turnout will be high. In addition, you are going to get some Republicans and independents voting for the Democrats as well. Although there's been talk of a "GNP" as opposed to a "GOP", there is strength in numbers and I don't believe we are witnessing the breakup of our two party system anytime soon.
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ReplyDeleteI do not think that party allegiance should play a role in whom people support, especially with the current GOP candidates. Most of the Republicans are not happy that Donald Trump has made his way to the spotlight; it’s actually quite embarrassing: He wants to build a wall between Mexico and the United States which would costs millions, if not billions, of dollars and wouldn’t actually work (hello, tunnels!) and all of the people he wants to deport would cost an estimated $11.8 billion. How could people back a candidate like this? If he ended up becoming the nominee, I’m sure a large portion of those affiliated with the GOP will not give him their vote. I don’t think Christie’s backing of Trump will help him much, since most people don’t really like Christie. The Republican party would definitely split and be in a great state of turmoil if Trump becomes the nominee--I mean the party is already in turmoil, this would make it so much worse. If he actually becomes the nominee, the party leaders will work to have someone else nominated and I’m sure laws and rules regarding future primaries and elections will be changed