Reform Party Infighting Gives Trump Pause
Donald Trump says he is “deeply concerned” about infighting among Reform Party members and may decide not to run for president if leaders can’t agree to a cease-fire.
“If the party is in the shape it’s in now, I am less inclined to run,” he said.
“I’d really like to make the race, particularly if the nominees are ‘Gush’ and ‘Bore,’ ” Trump said Thursday. “I am, however, deeply concerned about growing divisions in the Reform Party. I strongly urge party leaders to sit down and negotiate their differences.”
Some party leaders have indicated that it’s in the party’s interest to have two marquee names--Trump’s and former Republican Patrick J. Buchanan’s--competing for the party’s presidential nomination. Buchanan is campaigning across the country to get on the ballot in 29 states.
But right now, those same party leaders are consumed by factional warfare that broadened this week from a battle over the location of the party’s nominating convention into a formal effort to oust Chairman Jack Gargan.
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