The 'Never Trump' Movement Won't Give Up Even Though Trump Won By Olivia Becker and Sarah Mimms
May 4, 2016 | 8:30 am
Donald Trump became the Republican party's standard-bearer Tuesday night, after he swept the Indiana primary, knocking his one remaining credible rival out of the race and earning the title "presumptive nominee" from the Republican party's chairman, Reince Preibus.
There should be no stopping him now. But Republican operatives in the "stop Trump" movement say their war with the man who will be the Republican nominee for president is far from over.
One of the biggest anti-Trump groups, fittingly named Never Trump PAC, said Tuesday night that it's sticking with its mission, despite the overwhelming reality blaring across television screens that the battle is already lost.
"Obviously Trump's victory in Indiana makes the road ahead more challenging," the group said in a statement Tuesday evening. "We will continue to to seek opportunities to oppose his nomination and to draw a clear line between him and the values of the conservative cause."
"Never does not mean maybe," the group added.
Never Trump PAC's main focus now, it said, is to continue to wage war against their party's nominee in order to protect Republican candidates down the ballot in 2016, as the party tries to maintain its control over Congress.
The group includes several prominent Republican staffers like Rory Cooper, who worked in the George W. Bush White House and more recently led the communications shop for former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
"We must separate Trump's demagoguery from the conservative cause and protect GOP down-ballot candidates," Cooper said in a tweet on Tuesday night.
Never Trump also circulated a petition Tuesday night, asking conservatives to sign on vowing to never cast a vote for the presumptive GOP nominee. The petition currently has almost 30,000 signatures.
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