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Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures by Unhappy Republicans

Big money is finally being spent by Republicans desperate to prevent Donald Trump from winning their party's presidential nomination. Mitt Romney's voice is featured in robo-calls on behalf of alternative prospects.

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By Warren Olney • Mar 8, 2016 • 1 min read

Big money is finally being spent by Republicans desperate to prevent Donald Trump from winning their party's presidential nomination. Mitt Romney's voice is featured in robo-calls on behalf of alternative prospects. And if Rubio, Kasich and Ted Cruz together could stop Trump's nomination, Romney says he would accept the choice of a so-called "brokered convention." We hear more about that scheme and others as time is running out for moderate, conservative and Tea-Party Republicans.

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