Arizona’s junior senator, Jeff Flake, suggested this week that there could be a convention “coup” to deny Donald Trump the nomination at the GOP convention in Cleveland. That would certainly make for “Must see TV”!
Steve Benen reports, Talk of a convention coup rattles Republican politics:
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), a Donald Trump ally, said yesterday his party’s presumptive presidential nominee has “two to three weeks” to fix his campaign. What Corker did not say is what happens in two to three weeks if Trump is still, well, Trump.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who remains part of a small “Never Trump” contingent within the GOP, went just a little further in an interview with the Associated Press.
Said Flake: “Let’s face it: meet the old Trump, just like the new Trump. We’ve got what we’ve got. That’s not somebody who can win the White House.”
He added: “Where there’s no talk of a convention challenge or anything else, this might spur it.”
Hugh Hewitt, a prominent voice in Republican media, said on his radio show this morning that the party “ought to change the nominee.” Bob Vander Plaats, an Iowa-based leader for social conservatives, told NBC News, in reference to a possible convention coup, “Everything’s got to be on the table.”
Yeah, about that convention coup . . .
