Ex-McCain Adviser Schmidt: Non-Trump Nomination at Brokered RNC Could Wipe Out GOP

Curtis Houck | March 9, 2016
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In the early hours of Wednesday morning on MSNBC following the second edition of Super Tuesday, longtime Republican establishment operative and former McCain presidential campaign adviser Steve Schmidt warned his fellow cohorts to not wrestle the 2016 GOP presidential nod from Donald Trump because it’d danger the future of the party.

Schmidt’s lecturing of the party came as co-host Rachel Maddow asked him if “there an active market right now in people who are good at things like convention organizing, delegate work, the types of insider play that will be necessary to win a fight at the convention.”

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