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.
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