AZ republican party is talking of canceling the 2020 presidential nominating contest.

I don't understand why anyone would think they would have a chance against him. I may not be what they call a 'Trump supporter,' but these last two years in office have already paved victory for him in this upcoming election. Might as well let him take on another term, carry on what he hasn't yet finished. He has proven himself enough that he isn't all talk.

Has a primary ever been canceled when there's a challenger to the incumbent?

I find it sad that there is no one besides Trump who can represent the Republican Party.

ilovejcsog said:

Nevada and South Carolina have already cancelled since Trump already has it in the bag.

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ilovejcsog said:

Nevada and South Carolina have already cancelled since Trump already has it in the bag.

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No one seemed to care when a bunch of states canceled primaries when Obama ran for reelection. I rather suspect this is common practice in both parties when an incumbent President runs for reelection.

Oh how I wish someone in the Republican party could actually beat him in a primary. He's so...just...yuck.

David Cabrera said:

I find it sad that there is no one besides Trump who can represent the Republican Party.

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I think it's sad too. It's disheartening for me as a Christian to know that Donald Trump has become the face of the current Republican Party and a man like him now represents the Christian Right.

David Cabrera said:

I find it sad that there is no one besides Trump who can represent the Republican Party.

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I think it's sad this is what people believe!!!

Around this time b4 the 2016 election very few Republicans supported Trump. There were way better options. Graham infamously said: Lindsey Graham on Twitter

Ella & I went to Stanford OHS, the HS Stanford runs. We were allowed to go to events held by student organisations. We went to one hosted by the Stanford College Republicans! In early 2016! A scholar on Russia from the Hoover Institute (which is conservative) laid out exactly how Putin was gonna interfere in the election & why Trump was the absolute worst choice for the Republican party and for the country. This was b4 the primaries when there was plenty of time. He said Trump was what Gorbachev would call a "useful idiot." That's what spies actually do call him now.

There's no reason to just surrender to Trump! The challengers for the Republican party are experienced! They're competent. They should be given a fighting chance. Not have Trump rig the system against them. I mean back in 2015, 2016 many ppl thought Trump was a total joke. I live in Canada now. We literally thought he was a joke, nobody ever thought he was serious. That he just had an anti-science Tea Party base bc of the racist conspiracy theory about Obama. So he ended up still getting into office. Other Republicans could as well if given a fair chance!

For those interested, here's the GOP primary polls for 2020. There is no chance.

Jonaitis said:

I don't understand why anyone would think they would have a chance against him. I may not be what they call a 'Trump supporter,' but these last two years in office have already paved victory for him in this upcoming election. Might as well let him take on another term, carry on what he hasn't yet finished. He has proven himself enough that he isn't all talk.

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Nevada and South Carolina have already cancelled since Trump already has it in the bag.

If the Republican Party had cancelled any of the GOP Primaries back in 2016, Donald Trump would have gone "ballistic," denouncing it as a "rigged system" and a plot by the "DEEP STATE!"

Fast forward 4 years and it will be "The Donald who is "rigging the system" with his own version of "THE DEEP STATE" - attempting to silence the critics within his own Party!

Rumour has it that Trump and his "deplorables" have already counted the 2020 GOP Primary ballots months before they were even cast - so the Primary vote would be nothing more than a "formality!"

Redwingfan9 said:

No one seemed to care when a bunch of states canceled primaries when Obama ran for reelection. I rather suspect this is common practice in both parties when an incumbent President runs for reelection.

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Perhaps "Redwingfan9" would care to provide us with names of those Democrats who were running against Obama in 2014 - when there is only one name on the ballot is only time when cancelling a Primary is justified!

That, however, is not the case with the Republicans in 2020 where in addition to presidential incumbent Trump, there are currently 3 other candidates who have declared their intensions to seek the GOP Presidential nomination!

Irrespective of their individual chances against this sitting-President, in a nation that considerers itself to be a democracy, one would have expected the Republican Party not to put itself n the position of prejudging the outcome to have provided all candidates with "a level playing field!"

Why are Trump and the Republican Party so afraid of being challenged by 3 obscure candidates?

jgarden said:

Perhaps "Redwingfan9" would care to provide us with names of those Democrats who were running against Obama in 2014 - when there is only one name on the ballot is only time when cancelling a Primary is justified!

That, however, is not the case with the Republicans in 2020 where in addition to presidential incumbent Trump, there are currently 3 other candidates who have declared their intensions to seek the GOP Presidential nomination!

Irrespective of their individual chances against this sitting-President, in a nation that considerers itself to be a democracy, one would have expected the Republican Party not to put itself n the position of prejudging the outcome to have provided all candidates with "a level playing field!"

Why are Trump and the Republican Party so afraid of being challenged by 3 obscure candidates?

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Declaring an intention and actually running are two different things. Beyond that how parties nominate their candidate is really no one's business but the members of that party. There's a solid argument to be made that parties nominated better candidates when they were chosen by party delegates free from the shackles of broad primary electorates.

Redwingfan9 said:

Declaring an intention and actually running are two different things. Beyond that how parties nominate their candidate is really no one's business but the members of that party. There's a solid argument to be made that parties nominated better candidates when they were chosen by party delegates free from the shackles of broad primary electorates.

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AZ republican party is talking of canceling the 2020 presidential nominating contest.

What "Redwingfan9" is advocating is abandoning the democratic process of pubic participation associated with "Primaries" and the return to the "good old days" when candidates were selected in smoke filled backrooms by political "bosses!"

Given that political contributions are also be claimed as a tax deduction, the American taxpayer has every right to know why the democratic selection process is being "short-circuited!"

jgarden said:

AZ republican party is talking of canceling the 2020 presidential nominating contest.

What "Redwingfan9" is advocating is abandoning the democratic process of pubic participation associated with "Primaries" and the return to the "good old days" when candidates were selected in smoke filled backrooms by political "bosses!"

Given that political contributions are also be claimed as a tax deduction, the American taxpayer has every right to know why the democratic selection process is being "short-circuited!"

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Private political parties shouldn't be subject to democratic processes. The public shouldn't be determining who the candidate for any party will be. The public should only be involved in the general election.

Political contributions are not tax deductible.