Nina Turner Quotes
Make no mistake about it, Mitt Romney is the default candidate of the Republican Party.
In the Republican Presidential Primary Election of 2012, Mitt Romney was one of 9 candidates. After a very bitter campaign Romney won, but he could never appeal sufficiently to his own party to get close to 50 percent of the Republicans to support him. However, that was more than any of the other 8 candidates. Hence he was the Republican Nominee despite the fact that he never obtained majority support. Thus Turner called him the Republican “Default Candidate”.
Nina Turner, Ohio State Senator (Democrat), MSNBC The Last Word, September 25, 2012
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Nina Hudson Turner is an American politician from Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, she was a Cleveland City Councillor from 2006 to 2008 and an Ohio State Senator from 2008 until 2014.
