--- title: Super Tuesday Results: #NeverTrump Tries to Stop Donald description: Many establishment-friendly Republicans and conservative pundits kept up their campaign to stop Donald Trump's ascendance canonical: https://time.com/4244074/never-donald-trump-movement-super-tuesday/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-02T04:26:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:49:32.558Z article:section: Politics og:title: Republicans Hold #NeverTrump Vigil Even as Trump Dominates og:description: Never mind those Super Tuesday wins og:url: https://time.com/4244074/never-donald-trump-movement-super-tuesday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb5181eb0ba5b31b/69887fe4cf40a81e9cc423b5/donald-trump-never-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Holds Super Tuesday Election Night Press Conf. 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It is written by a TIME senior correspondent who covers the capital full time. #### Who writes TIME's D.C. Brief? Philip Elliott, a senior correspondent at TIME, writes D.C. Brief. #### Is D.C. Brief free? Yes. D.C. Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3/newsletters?i=a1da76a3-906d-4d26-a224-d69576db2df8&cr=time-nl-dcbrief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Watch Donald Trump's Speech on Super Tuesday [Watch (HLS stream): Watch Donald Trump's Speech on Super Tuesday](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZKVzgu0K.m3u8) (1:11)  _Published 2016-03-02. RAW-Super Tuesday-Trump-v1_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 2, 2016 4:26 AM UTC RAW-Super Tuesday-Trump-v1  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 2, 2016 4:26 AM UTC Many establishment-friendly Republicans and conservative pundits kept up their campaign to stop Donald Trump’s ascendance to the party’s presidential nomination on Tuesday night, continuing to promote the hashtag #NeverTrump on social media even as Trump [racked up a string of Super Tuesday victories](http://time.com/4243778/super-tuesday-primary-results-donald-trump-hillary-clinton/?14&xid=homepage). Tim Miller, who was the spokesman for former presidential candidate Jeb Bush, has been a vocal critic of Trump. “Donald’s campaign will go the way of Trump Mortgage & Trump Steaks. Will fight til last delegate counted #Nevertrump,” Miller [posted on Twitter](https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/704825684707942400) on Tuesday, as the Super Tuesday results rolled in. _Politico_ reported Tuesday that [Miller had signed on](http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/super-tuesday-anti-trump-super-pac-donors-220065) to be the spokesman for an anti-Trump super PAC, Our Principles PAC, which on the same day released a [new ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JGJVJTwLYo&feature=youtu.be) denouncing Trump as unelectable. Conservative pundit Erick Erickson touted #NeverTrump bumper stickers. But others emphasized that a vote for Trump would still be better than a vote for Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. “I think the movement to stop Donald Trump is probably not a good idea, and the reason I say that is because even though he may not be the ideal candidate, if we splinter, we will guarantee a win for Hillary Clinton, and a win for Hillary Clinton will be a major loss for America,” Republican candidate Ben Carson said in an [interview with the _Independent Journal Review_](https://www.facebook.com/injoamerica/videos/10154460529887971/), when asked about the #NeverTrump movement. See how some people were using the #NeverTrump hashtag on Super Tuesday. > [](https://twitter.com/DavidIRamadan/status/704862343998603265) > [](https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/704825684707942400) > [](https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/704784065736499200) > [](https://twitter.com/MeghanMcCain/status/704830478222753792) > [](https://twitter.com/cspac/status/704834154018574337) > [](https://twitter.com/TeamMarco/status/704790329740939264) > [](https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/704858379186020352) > [](https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/704844601375514624) > [](https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/704844033068277760) > [](https://twitter.com/elliosch/status/704840798353883136) > [](https://twitter.com/freddoso/status/704829590074740736) ## Transcript [00:00] I am a unifier. Once we get all of this finished I'm [00:04] gonna go after one person, that's Hillary Clinton on the [00:06] assumption she's allowed to run. I watched Hillary's [00:09] speech and she's talking about wages have been poor, [00:12] and everything's poor, and everything's badly but [00:14] we're gonna make it. She's been there for so long. [00:16] [ LAUGH ] I mean, if she hasn't straightened it out by [00:19] now She's not gonna straighten it out in the next four [00:22] years. It's just gonna become worse and worse. She [00:24] wants to make America whole again and I'm trying to [00:27] figure out what is that all about. Make America great [00:30] again is gonna be much better than making America [00:32] whole again. They're declaring Marco Rubio the big [00:36] loser of the night, which is true. He didn't win anything. [00:39] He hasn't won anything period. And by the way, and I [00:41] have to tell, and he was very, very nasty. I've never [00:45] heard a person get up and speak on an evening like [00:47] this and be so nasty, but he's got a right to be nasty. [00:49] He hasn't won anything and he's not gonna win very [00:51] much. And I think, honestly, we've done something that [00:54] almost nobody thought could be done. And I'm very [00:57] proud of it. And I just want to leave you with this. I am [00:59] a unifier. I would love to see the Republican party [01:04] and everybody get together and unify. 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