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Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump speaks to the media at the Mar-A-Lago Club on March 1, 2016 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump held the press conference after the closing of Super Tuesday polls in a dozen states.
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With Donald Trump looking like the clear Republican nomination for president, a group of Republican donors asked a Florida-based GOP firm to look for a possible candidate who could make a independent push to unseat both Trump and the Democratic nominee.
Data Targeting, the firm hired to research a possible independent solution, has come back with one name and one name only: former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
“The reality of the the matter is that we will have President Trump or President Clinton — if we don’t have President Rice,” read a memo written by Joel Searby, a consultant with Data Targeting, Capital New York reports. The memo outlines Rice’s strengths with viable numbers should she enter a three-way race with Trump and Clinton.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a ceremony for the unveiling of her official State Department portrait in the Benjamin Franklin Room at the State Department on June 18, 2014 in Washington, DC. Rice served as State Department secretary from 2005-2009 under President George W. Bush.
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The data firm also believes that Rice, who is black, could get between 10-25 percent with black and Hispanic voters. The memo even notes that if the end game is to stop Hillary Clinton and keep the Republican Party in tact, Rice is the best option.
Should Rice agree to run, she “would need to gather over 79,900 valid petition signatures in Texas by May 9 and over 89,000 in North Carolina by June 9,” the memo notes.
“This has grown more urgent and more important, we believe, as the prospect of a brokered convention is floated,” the memo reads. “It is this group’s belief that a brokered convention is a recipe for Hillary Clinton’s election and the death of the Republican Party.”
Read more at Capital New York.
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