Lors du dernier débat Donald Trump a affirmé qu'il ne songeait pas à se présenter comme candidat indépendant. S'il devait triompher à la fin du processus des primaires, sa victoire pourrait très bien avoir comme résultat de diviser profondément sa formation politique. Ce ne serait pas la première fois de l'histoire et dans le passé ce ne fut jamais bon pour le parti concerné. Quel Parti républicain survivra à l'élection de 2016? Peut-être un parti bien différent...
"This is not the usual rhetoric of intraparty battles, the kind of thing that gets resolved in handshakes under the convention banners. These are stake-in-the-ground positions, strongly suggesting that a Trump nomination would create a fissure within the party as deep and indivisible as any in American political history, driven both by ideology and by questions of personal character.
Indeed, it would be a fissure so deep that, if the operatives I talked with are right, Trump running as a Republican could well face a third-party run—from the Republicans themselves.
That threat, in turn, would leave Republican candidates, contributors and foot soldiers with painful choices. A look at the political landscape, the election rules and the history of intraparty insurgencies suggests that it could turn 2016, a year that offered Republicans a reasonable chance to win the White House and with it total control of the national political apparatus, into a disaster."
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/12/donald-trump-2016-third-party-bid-213449
