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Rattled Republicans seek a last-ditch strategy to stop Trump

K. HENNESSEY tion,” said Neil Newhouse, publican pollster. locked down solid victo- the fight, campaigning in

J. PACE a Republican pollster. “And The Republican mayhem ries in seven states and was Maine on Wednesday.

Associated Press the problem with that is no

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fac- one has the best scenario

ing the prospect of nomi- for how to do that.”

nating Donald Trump for The scrambling came as

president, Republicans spi- the billionaire candidate

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ditch search Wednesday victories in seven of eleven

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tory for his rivals narrowed.
an unpredictable celebrity Trump’s strength — which Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., gestures as he speaks to a rally in
candidate without alienat- stretched from the Deep Oklahoma City. Facing the prospect of nominating Donald Trump for president, Republicans spi-
ing his throng of followers. South to New England — raled into a chaotic, last-ditch search Wednesday for a way to stop Trump’s momentum.
Sensing a window clos- exposed the depths of the
ing fast, Republican lead- divisions within the party, no (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
ers and elder statesmen matter who becomes the
toggled through a menu nominee in this election.
of scenarios but landed on As Republicans surveyed
none. Some amplified calls the wreckage from Trump’s
to rally around a Trump al- surge, some argued there
ternative, even if that alter- was still a chance to stop
native is Ted Cruz, a prickly him. He was not yet on
conservative senator with track to claim the nomi-
few friends in the party. nation before the party’s
Others laid out still-hazy national gathering in July,
plans for a brokered na- according to an Associ-
tional convention, an op- ated Press delegate count.

tion likely to smack of the He has won 46 percent of

backroom dealing Trump the delegates awarded so

fans despise. Some floated far, and he would have to

more extreme measures, increase that to 51 percent

talking of breaking from the in the remaining primaries. contrasted sharply with on the path to regaining Republicans, meanwhile,
a clearer picture on the her status as the inevitable looked for a wise man to
party and starting anew. “Trump had a good night, Democratic side, where nominee. Rival Sen. Bernie calm the jitters and point
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday Sanders vowed to keep up the way.
“It’s all a play to stall it or try but he left the door open,”

to deny him the nomina- said David Winston, a Re-

Ben Carson says ‘no path forward’ in his bid for White House

BILL BARROW said in a statement posted television debate. But his “also have no path” to the ing disgust with the nation’s
Associated Press on his campaign website, longtime businessman and nomination. direction and the party
WASHINGTON (AP) — Re- though he added, “I re- friend, Armstrong Williams, Carson’s exit reduces the leaders’ perceived inability
tired neurosurgeon Ben main deeply committed to confirmed that the soft- active Republican field to to alter it.
Carson said he is effec- my home nation, America” spoken candidate would four candidates, though He ran as an outsider, of-
tively ending his bid for the and promised to offer de- no longer be asking for billionaire Donald Trump fering a poverty-to-fame
White House Wednesday, tails of his future when he votes. remains the clear leader in autobiography, his un-
concluding a roller-coaster speaks Friday at a conser- “There’s only one candi- earned delegates and vot- abashed Christian faith
campaign that briefly took vative conference in Wash- date in this 2016 election on er preference polls. and an unceasing indict-
him to the top of a chaotic ington. the Republican side, and Carson, 64, was one of ment of conventional poli-
Republican field but ended He did not explicitly say his name is Trump. That’s several anti-establishment tics, styling his bid as an
with a Super Tuesday whim- that he’s ending his cam- the reality,” Williams said, candidates who shaped effort to combat “political
per. paign, only noting that he adding that Sens. Marco the early stages of a Re- correctness” and what he
“I do not see a political does not plan to take part Rubio and Ted Cruz also publican race defined by described as a creep to-
path forward,” Carson in Thursday’s Fox News should drop out, as they conservatives’ wide-rang- ward “socialism.”