Team #NeverTrump has a new plan to deny Donald Trump (and Clinton) the presidency


Republican opposition to Donald Trump hasn't died entirely, even though the #NeverTrump Republicans are accepting the fact that they can't stop him from becoming their party's presidential nominee. So they have a new plan, and it doesn't involve any shenanigans at the Republican National Convention, Fox News' John Roberts said Tuesday night, citing "a highly-placed Republican source."
The plan, hatched by "a group of donors and political insiders," Roberts explains, "is to launch a none-of-the-above campaign in a handful of states where neither Trump nor Clinton did particularly well. #NeverTrump Republicans and Bernie Sanders supporters would be given a third option to vote for in each of those states. The strategy is to deny both Trump and Clinton the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency," thus throwing the election to the GOP-controlled House of Representatives. It has happened before, in 1825, he notes, and not everyone thinks the plan is crazy — though it certainly puts the Electoral College at existential risk.
"When I looked at the deadlines for the states, and then when I looked at the polling data in terms of the number of people who are not satisfied with either one of the nominees, I realized this is not a cockamamie plan," Randy Evans, head of the Republican National Lawyers Association and a member of the Republican National Committee, tells Fox News. "This could actually work if it had the right amount of funding." Go read Paul Waldman's article about fools and their money, watch Samantha Bee's interview with a conflicted super PAC super donor, then check out the Fox News report below. Peter Weber
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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