Trump nomination would destroy Republican Party: US journalist
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.
US intensifies security measures amid anticipated post-election unrest
Russia rejects 'baseless' US claims of producing fake vote videos
Ex-detainee held at Guantánamo Bay for two decades dies in Pakistan
UNRWA warns of humanitarian collapse in Gaza
'Hello my enemies': Lebanese journalist on Israeli threats and his resolve to continue
Outrage in France as MP proposes bill to ban criticism of Israel
VIDEO | The strategy of Hezbollah in war
Israeli military withdraws several brigades from southern Lebanon: Report
48-year-old Palestinian man serving 48 life terms completes 22 years in Israeli jails
From MKO to Tondar, how Germany became safe haven for anti-Iran terror groups
Hamas open to any proposal aiming to end Gaza war: Hamdan
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
