“I’m not going to even have my personal staff as vice president, because we want to govern as a team”, Weld said.
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You knew this was coming, and the political world didn’t disappoint: on Day 1 of the Rio Games, the Olympics have become political football in the United States presidential race.
“I think the Donald Trump who would show up at the White House would be the business Donald Trump”, Weld said.
That’s losing YUGE with young people.
A new poll found just 38 percent of 18- to 30-year-olds have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton, while just 21 percent like Donald Trump.
Johnson has said his campaign’s first and most important goal is to reach the polling threshold of 15 percent nationally, which, under the rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, would qualify him to participate in the nationally broadcast debates alongside Trump and Clinton.
Johnson has polled around 10% in recent national polls, against Clinton, Trump, and the Green Party’s candidate Jill Stein. GOP representative Scott Rigell announced in the New York Times on Saturday that he would vote for Johnson.
For what it’s worth, Weld has said he supports a ballot measure to legalize and regulate marijuana in the state of MA.
Democrat Hillary Clinton is slipping while Libertarian Gary Johnson is surging.
“Trump is basically tied with ‘undecided, ‘ which is at 8 percent”. Blair Dunn, a Republican candidate for state senate and the son of New Mexico Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn, is working with the local Johnson campaign. That lines up with exit polling from the GOP primaries, which found that on Super Tuesday at least, millennials were the least likely Republican cohort to vote for Trump. Earl is the former failed Libertarian gubernatorial candidate in Ohio.
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Earlier on Monday, The Republican Party of Virginia Beach expressed its disappointment with Rigell’s endorsement in a Facebook post. Apparently, many young voters agree. Gary Johnson makes certain to pepper his speeches and interviews with statements that highlight the uselessness of his rivals’ policy proposals – in this case, Trump’s – while at the same time emphasizing how his platform is different from theirs.
