Will conservatives be able to draft a third party candidate?

[Maxwell]

Any talk of Buddy Roemer? He'd seem like a plausible sacrificial lamb.

That's an interesting pick because he's very anti-money in politics, and his many campaigns for office all had a fairly populist tinge. I suspect if you look at him on the bare bones of it he'd actually like Trump (kind of).

[Virginiá]

They could run a doomed 3rd party run in select states to try and deny anyone the necessary 270 electoral votes and thus throw the election to the House, where Republicans would obviously pick their 3rd party candidate regardless of how little votes they got. The only saving grace is that their 3rd party candidate would have to be moderate/liberal enough to split votes across the board in blue states.

In addition, such a run could help drive up turnout among Republicans who may have otherwise stayed home. At least, that is the logic being floated recently.

I wouldn't rule out Republicans trying to toss the race to the House, though. It is not beyond them by any means. Perhaps years ago it would have been, but doubtful it is now.

[StateBoiler]

In regards to filing deadlines, apparently John Anderson won lawsuits against them running for president in 1980, and Bill Kristol in an editorial published today says:

"Getting an independent candidate on the ballot in all 50 states is less difficult than conventional wisdom has it. The only states whose ballot access deadlines are before the end of June are Texas and North Carolina, and those deadlines are susceptible to legal challenges that are being drawn up as I write."

[Fargobison]

Interesting....

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