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Of Republican voters will support the eventual GOP nominee if their candidate is not chosen, a majority of Donald Trump supporters said they would vote for the businessman if he were to lose the nomination and run as a third-party candidate, according to a new Suffolk University/USA Today poll. Meanwhile, 40% of Republicans whose favored candidate is not nominated said they will vote for the Democratic nominee, seriously consider a third-party candidate, stay home on Election Day in November, or are undecided.

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by The Hill.

— Gov. John Kasich, in a Washington Post interview.

The primary campaign’s forcing Republicans to choose sides,
And a few apparently are even contemplating suicide.
Like Rep. Peter King of New York,
Who says Ted Cruz is such a jerk,
That if Cruz gets the nomination, he’ll take cyanide.

Romney: Presidents Don’t Whine About Rules

April 19, 2016 Buck Banks

All these rules are a lot simpler than the rules of foreign affairs or the rules of our economy. And if you want to be president, you are going to have to deal with things far more complicated than Republican delegate rules.

— Mitt Romney, in an interview with CNN, on Donald Trump’s complaints that the GOP primary is rigged.

Ted Cruz as Change Agent

April 19, 2016 Buck Banks

Ted Cruz is Matt Bevin , on a national level… Democrats and Republicans alike dismiss his chances in a general election at their own risk. The main reason Cruz will be competitive for the presidency is the fundamental reality of the 2016 election. With the backdrop of a disaffected electorate and a deeply polarizing president leaving office after two terms, any Republican nominee benefits from being the candidate of change.

— National Journal

Trump Threatens GOP Leaders with a ‘Rough’ Convention

April 18, 2016 Buck Banks

The Republican National Committee, they’d better get going, because I’ll tell you what: You’re going to have a rough July at that convention. You’d better get going, and you’d better straighten out the system because the people want their vote. The people want their vote, and they want to be represented properly.

— Donald Trump, warning party leaders to reform GOP’s system for selecting a nominee or face a ‘rough July’ when it holds its convention in Cleveland,” the Washington Post reports.

Cruz Refuses to Apologize to McConnell

April 8, 2016 Buck Banks

If the Washington lobbyists want to see that happen, they can hold their breath a long, long time.

— Sen. Ted Cruz, saying that an apology for calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar “ain’t gonna happen,” The Hill reports.

There’s No Choice

April 7, 2016 Buck Banks

The Republican Party can’t speak with one voice,
As their primary devolves into nonsense and noise.
Being forced to choose
Between a Trump and a Cruz,
Is no better than a Hobson’s choice.

With Cruz Nomination GOP Cedes Any Appeal to Moderation

April 7, 2016 Buck Banks

Cruz would be the most extreme right-wing nominee in modern American history. He is deeply out of sync with a large majority of voters on social issues. His role in shutting down the government is anathema to most Americans. If Republicans nominate Cruz, they concede any claim to the center whatsoever.

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Election Bodes Ill for GOP

60%

Graham Is Worried About GOP

I have never been more worried about the Republican Party breaking apart than I am today.

— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by The Hill.

Kasic: GOP Doesn’t Like Ideas

If you don’t have ideas, you got nothing, and frankly my Republican Party doesn’t like ideas. They want to be negative against things.

— Gov. John Kasich, in a Washington Post interview.

The Poison Caucus

Romney: Presidents Don’t Whine About Rules

All these rules are a lot simpler than the rules of foreign affairs or the rules of our economy. And if you want to be president, you are going to have to deal with things far more complicated than Republican delegate rules.

— Mitt Romney, in an interview with CNN, on Donald Trump’s complaints that the GOP primary is rigged.

Ted Cruz as Change Agent

— National Journal

Trump Threatens GOP Leaders with a ‘Rough’ Convention

— Donald Trump, warning party leaders to reform GOP’s system for selecting a nominee or face a ‘rough July’ when it holds its convention in Cleveland,” the Washington Post reports.

Cruz Refuses to Apologize to McConnell

If the Washington lobbyists want to see that happen, they can hold their breath a long, long time.

— Sen. Ted Cruz, saying that an apology for calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell a liar “ain’t gonna happen,” The Hill reports.

There’s No Choice

With Cruz Nomination GOP Cedes Any Appeal to Moderation

— Democratic pollster Geoff Garin, quoted by the Washington Post.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”