Halperin book: Never Trumpers plot with Democrats to doom Trump 2020 reelection

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Never Trump Republicans are secretly plotting with Democrats to foist a moderate Republican onto the 2020 ticket as an independent with hopes the third-party candidate would pull enough votes away from President Trump to guarantee the election to the Democratic nominee, according to a new book by political journalist Mark Halperin.

In How to Beat Trump: America’s Top Political Strategists on What it Will Take, Halperin revealed an “audacious scheme” to put a key Republican, such as Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, on the ballot.

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