Originally Posted by Jeffery J. Haas
Republicans to scrap primaries and caucuses as Trump challengers cry foul

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Four states are poised to cancel their 2020 GOP presidential primaries and caucuses, a move that would cut off oxygen to Donald Trump’s long-shot primary challengers.

Republican parties in South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas are expected to finalize the cancellations in meetings this weekend, according to three GOP officials who are familiar with the plans.

---Nothing illustrates an unstable and weak candidate quite like a party closing ranks and shutting out all challengers.

Of course, all that will happen is, a bunch of THIRD PARTY libertarian and conservative challengers will throw their hat in the ring to do to Trump what numerous third party challengers have done to Democrats in previous elections, divert votes.
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The shutdowns aren’t without precedent. Some of the states forgoing Republican nomination contests have done so during the reelection bids of previous presidents. Arizona, GOP officials there recalled, did not hold a Democratic presidential primary in 2012, when Barack Obama was seeking a second term, or in 1996, when Bill Clinton was running for reelection. Kansas did not have a Democratic primary in 1996, and Republican officials in the state pointed out that they have long chosen to forgo primaries during a sitting incumbent’s reelection year.
Is there a double standard here? Did Jeffery complain when the Democrats didn't have primaries when Presidents Clinton and Obama were up for reelection? The quote I posted is from the Politico story Jeffery posted.

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