We found this little nugget buried in a
PPP survey released Wednesday of the New Hampshire Senate contest between Republican Kelly Ayotte and Democrat Maggie Hassan.
New Hampshire provides more evidence of what a disaster not nominating Trump could potentially be for the GOP. Running as an independent candidate he actually beats out Jeb Bush for second place 28% to 22% for Bush--leaving Hillary Clinton with a double digit lead over both of them at her 43% standing. Trump gets 41% of Republicans, 30% of independents, and 11% of Democrats running third party.
Just to reiterate, an independent Trump run in the general election puts Jeb! THIRD in New Hampshire. And Btw, Bernie does similarly to Clinton against Jeb! in New Hampshire but seven points better than Clinton against Trump. So either way, Republicans would be SOL.
There's been some reporting that Trump has told "GOP brass" that he wouldn't make a third-party run. Sure. Remember that truce between Roger Ailes/Fox and Trump? Right, so does Megyn Kelly. And now a second truce, as long as The Donald feels like it.
Anyway, about that third-party run...
Hugh Hewitt asked Trump about The Huffington Post story on his radio show Wednesday evening. Trump said that ruling out a third-party run is “not something” he would want to do at this time
Trump's a total wild card. Face it.