The ground works to stop Donald Trump from winning the GOP Primary are taking place. First Republican leaders will have delegates in State GOP conventions to try and disrupt as mention by in The Rachel Maddow Show last night. The other options is the have a 3rd Party Candidate run in the General Elections, According to the New York Times.
The names of a few well-known conservatives have been offered up in recent days as potential third-party standard-bearers, and William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, has circulated a memo to a small number of conservative allies detailing the process by which an independent candidate could get on general-election ballots across the country.
Among the recruits under discussion are Tom Coburn, a former Oklahoma senator who has told associates that he would be open to running, and Rick Perry, the former Texas governor who was suggested as a possible third-party candidate at a meeting of conservative activists on Thursday in Washington.
Mr. Coburn, who left the Senate early last year to receive treatment for cancer, said in an interview that Mr. Trump “needs to be stopped” and that he expected to back an independent candidate against him. He said he had little appetite for a campaign of his own, but did not flatly rule one out.
It seems like 2016 elections could end up like the 1912 elections.