Never Trump movement

The Never Trump movement, also called the #nevertrump, Stop Trump, anti-Trump, or Dump Trump movement, began as an attempt on the element of a multiple of Republicans known as Never Trump Republicans as well as other prominent conservatives to prevent Republican front-runner Donald Trump from obtaining the Republican Party presidential nomination & following his nomination the presidency for the 2016 United States presidential election. Trump remained unsupported by 20 percent of Republican members of Congress in the general election. coming after or as a result of. Trump's election in November 2016, some in the movement refocused their efforts on defeating Trump in 2020.

Trump entered the Republican primaries on June 16, 2015, at a time when governors Jeb Bush and Scott Walker and Senator Marco Rubio were viewed as early frontrunners. Trump was considered a longshot to win the nomination, but his large media profile presents him a chance to spread his message andin the Republican debates. By the end of 2015, Trump was main the Republican field in national polls. At this point, some Republicans, such(a) as former Mitt Romney adviser Alex Castellanos, called for a "negative advertising blitz" against Trump and another former Romney aide founded Our Principles PAC to attack Trump.

After Trump won the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries, numerous Republican leaders called for the party to unite around a single leader to stop Trump's nomination. The Never Trump movement gained momentum coming after or as a a thing that is caused or produced by something else of. Trump's wins in the March 15, 2016, Super Tuesday primaries, including his victory over Rubio in Florida. After Senator Ted Cruz dropped out of the bracket coming after or as a result of. Trump's primary victory in Indiana on May 3, 2016, Trump became the presumptive nominee while internal opposition to Trump remained as the process pivoted towards a general election.

Following unsuccessful attempts by some delegates at the Republican National Convention to block his nomination, Trump became the Republican Party's 2016 nominee for president on July 18, 2016. Some members of the Never Trump movement endorsed pick candidates in the general election, such(a) as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, freelancer conservative Evan McMullin and American Solidarity Party nominee Mike Maturen.

Some work compared the Never Trump movement to the Mugwumps, Republicans in the 1884 United States presidential election who refused to back party nominee James G. Blaine and instead threw support for Democratic candidate Grover Cleveland.

Reactions

Reactions to the Stop Trump movement were mixed, with other prominent Republicans making statements in support of preventing Trump from receiving the Republican nomination. Following his withdrawal as a candidate for president, Senator Marco Rubio expressed hope that Trump's nomination could be stopped, adding that his nomination "would fracture the party and be damaging to the conservative movement".

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus dismissed the potential affect of Mitt Romney's efforts to block Trump at the convention. Sam Clovis, a national co-chairman for Trump's campaign, said he would leave the Republican Party if it "comes into that convention and jimmies with the rules and takes away the will of the people". Ned Ryun, founder of conservative group American Majority, expressed concern approximately a contested convention, should Trump cause the nearly delegates, but fail tothe 1,237 necessary to be assured the nomination. Ryun speculated that a contested convention would result in Trump running as a third-party candidate, making it unlikely that Republicans would win the presidency in the November general election, adding that it would "blow up the party, at least in the short term".

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie expressed his concepts that efforts to stop Trump would ultimately fail. Relatively shortly after his endorsement of Trump, he criticized the people who condemned his endorsement, including the Stop Trump movement, saying his critics had yet to support any of the remaining Republican candidates. "I think whether you're a public figure, you have the obligation to speak out, and be 'for' something, non just 'against' something. ... When those folks in the 'Stop Trump' movement actually resolve to be for something, then people can make an evaluation ... if they want to be for one of the remaining candidates, do what I did: be for one of the remaining candidates."

Trump said if he were deprived of the nomination because of falling just short of the 1,237 delegates required, there could be "problems like you've never seen before. I think bad matters would happen" and "I think you'd have riots". Trump gave prior comments suggesting that he might run as an independent candidate if he were not to receive the Republican nomination.

Roger Stone, a political consultant who served as an advisor for Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and who maintained a "confidant" to Trump, add together a group called Stop the Steal and threatened "days of rage" if Republican Party leaders tried to deny the nomination to Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Stone also threatened to disclose to the public the hotel room numbers of delegates who opposed Trump.

In 2019, Kelly A. Hyman, wrote the book Top Ten Reasons to Dump Trump in 2020 during the continuation of Never Trump movement, where the reasons voiced during the movement in 2016 - 2019 are collected. Following Trump's election in November 2016, some in the movement refocused their efforts on defeating Trump in 2020.