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Getty RNC rebukes Bill Kristol on anti-Trump efforts

Conservative pundit Bill Kristol is pushing for a third-party challenge to Republican front-runner Donald Trump.

The Republican National Committee wants him to cut it out.

The New York Times reported Saturday on efforts by Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, as well as others, to recruit former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to mount a challenge to Trump in the general election. RNC spokesman Sean Spicer told Breitbart News on Sunday that “any effort to facilitate a third party ultimately is helping to elect Hillary Clinton," adding that the "Republican Party must be united to take back the White House."

On Sunday, Kristol tweeted his observations from RNC Chairman Reince Priebus' interview on ABC's "This Week," during which Priebus affirmed that the process would play itself out and said that, while it's highly unlikely, he could not rule out the possibility that the Republican nominee would not be someone who is currently running.

On @ThisWeekABC, @Reince on possible independent candidacy: "I think it's far too late." Seconds later:"I think all of it is far too early." — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 20, 2016





Re ballot access for independent: TX is by far toughest (but could do write-in there), NC a challenge, rest doable if start April 6. @Taniel — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 20, 2016





Those messages followed takes earlier in the weekend in which he called a third-party challenge "Track Two" to derailing Trump.

This is Track Two, just in case. Track One is to stop Trump within GOP, where he's getting only 37% of vote. https://t.co/hpXjHOUaxN — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 19, 2016



