By John Dempsey, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts is elaborating on why his conservative family is spending millions of dollars to help prevent Donald Trump from becoming the Republican nominee for President.
Ricketts told “The Big John Howell Show” on WLS, that Trump does not have any history of positions on conservative issues.
“The reason that we’ve been so dedicated to making sure Trump is not our nominee is really simple. He has not shown himself to be a consistent conservative throughout his life slash career.”
Two weeks ago Trump threatened the Ricketts family after learning the family matriarch Marlene Ricketts, had donated $3 million to the Our Principles PAC, which is dedicated to buying millions of dollars of anti Trump ads in key states.
The billionaire tweeted “I hear the Rickets (sic) family, who own the Chicago Cubs, are secretly spending $’s against me. They better be careful, they have a lot to hide!”
In response to that threat, Todd Ricketts told WLS , “He doesn’t know anything about us, so first of all he has no idea whether we have anything to hide or not, I’ll tell you we don’t, but he has no idea.”
Ricketts also said a Trump presidency would be a disaster for a number of reasons.
“Donald Trump has shown himself to be intemperate and unstable and unable to think through all these issues, and don’t even get me started on foreign policy, where not only does he not have an idea of what his policy would look like, he doesn’t even know the most basic information about the different situations we have, whether it be China, Russia, the Middle East, or South America.”
Ricketts also said “I just don’t know what a Trump presidency would look like, and I have a feeling that most people, if they do choose to vote for him, and God forbid he does become President, they’re gonna be severely disappointed in his inability to execute on anything that he’s saying on the campaign trail right now.”
Ricketts and other establishment Republicans trying to stop Trump are hoping to deny him victories in two of the three delegate-rich states that have primaries on March 15th, Florida, Ohio, and Illinois.
If that happens the anti-Trump forces predict his path to the nomination becomes more difficult, and it increases the chances of a brokered Republican convention in Cleveland this July, at which party leaders can pick the nominee if no one comes to the convention with the required number of delegates.
Other Republicans, even those opposed to Trump, say that is a risky strategy that could backfire, alienating Trump supporters, and possibly causing the businessman to mount a third party challenge, draining votes away from the Republican nominee.
