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Trump nomination would destroy Republican Party: US journalist

Thursday, 24 December 2015 9:42 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 24 December 2015 9:44 PM ]

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on December 21, 2015 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AFP photo)

If the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump for the US president, it would be the "end" of the conservative party, says George F. Will, an American newspaper columnist and political commentator.

“Conservatives’ highest priority now must be to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination in this, the GOP’s third epochal intraparty struggle in 104 years,” Will wrote in a Washington Post column on Thursday.

The Pulitzer Prize–winner journalist said preventing Trump from clinching the Republican nomination should be an even higher priority than stopping the Democratic Party from winning a third presidential term in the office.

“One hundred and four years of history is in the balance. If Trump is the Republican nominee in 2016, there might not be a conservative party in 2020 either,” he wrote.

Since he joined the 2016 White House race in mid-June, Trump’s campaign has been marked by controversy, including disparaging remarks about women, Muslims and Mexican immigrants.

Last month, the reality TV star proposed banning Muslims from entering the US, drawing widespread condemnation both domestically and internationally.

Trump, whose paternal grandparents immigrated from Germany and his mother immigrated from Scotland, has also called for the deportation of all undocumented immigrants from the United States.

Commenting to Press TV earlier this month, American journalist Don DeBar said it looks like that Trump’s role in the US presidential election is to get Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton get elected.

DeBar said on December 9 he has “questions about whether Trump’s role in this entire election is to get 'her' elected.”

“Clinton as a Democratic nominee now loses, to the extent there is one, the left inside the Democratic Party electorate, and particularly with Bernie Sanders running, depending on what he tells his people to do at the end of the day, and to the extent they're ready to listen at that point,” he added.

“She needs the middle to win the presidential election, to the extent that it's the middle of the US electorate, which is pretty far to the right, and so does the Republican nominee” he stated.

“And Trump is scaring that middle away. It looks clearly intentional. They have focus groups. They have analysis of the electorate, I am certain available to them on a constant basis,” the analyst noted.

“So it seems designed to get Hillary Clinton get elected, to make her look like she is taking a progressive stand out there,” he pointed out.

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