With some 6 in 10 Republican voters selecting someone besides Donald Trump for president and strong negatives against Democrat Hillary Clinton, there is ample room for a third-party candidate to serve as an alternative. A movement is under way to draft Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska to run as a third-party candidate in the wake of broad party dissatisfaction with Trump.Yes, we can do better. #DraftSasse2016! https://t.co/djHOEMQu5S— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 4, 2016After a defeat in Indiana last night, Sen. Ted Cruz dropped out of the race and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus called Trump the presumptive nominee. But Trump’s path to general election victory is far from assured. Trump has received a higher proportion of delegates relative to his popular vote, propping him up with an inflated sense of victory when polls show him trailing Clinton.The GOP primary system was set up to favor the frontrunner, even though some 40 percent of Republicans responded in a Suffolk University/USA TODAY poll, as David Paleologos reports, “they will either vote for the Democratic nominee, seriously consider an independent candidate, stay home and not vote in November, or weren’t sure. Mass defection.”Two conservative political strategists, Eric Maranga from Frederick County, Md., and Daniel…
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