It isn’t often that a presidential candidate refers to himself as the “lesser half” of the ticket.
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“People think that if you vote for a party that doesn’t have as much notoriety as the Democrats you waste your vote”, says Michelle Tate, a lifelong Massachusetts Democrat who calls herself a Libertarian party “convert” after Saturday’s rally.
Johnson, who ran as the Libertarian nominee in 2012, and Weld said they’ve been “small-L libertarians” for years. It can welcome a third-party candidate with “significant” influence on the election through a personal invitation, even if that candidate hasn’t met the polling threshold. “Clinton says “Don’t vote for Trump” and Trump says ‘Don’t vote for Clinton'”. Johnson, a former two-term governor of New Mexico, asks near the end. They say they are fiscally conservative but socially liberal.
A RealClearPolitics polling average now shows Johnson with 8.9 percent support.
“Beyond my wildest dreams, Bill Weld is my running mate-whew!”
In turn, Weld was equally laudatory toward Johnson. The Libertarian Party candidate has already conceded that a failure to qualify for the debate will certainly end his chances in the race.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Maine Sen.
I have never felt such despair over the state of our country than I have following this year’s presidential election (and I lived through the Viet Nam War and the 1968 presidential election).
The next day, he ruled out legal status, “unless they leave the country and come back”, he told CNN.
“I hope you’ll give me your first interview in the White House”, Wallace said.
At a Saturday rally for Mr. Johnson and his running mate, William Weld, in Boston, those attending told The Christian Science Monitor that the complexity and polarization of 2016 USA politics is driving them to look at third parties, many for the first time.
However, as both candidates emphasized, their top priority would be to introduce a balanced budget within 100 days of taking office.
Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson has his sights set on qualifying for the first presidential debate on September 26 in Hempstead, N.Y., but in an interview with Fox News Sunday, he made clear he thinks he can do much more than that in this unpredictable campaign. And that’s an increase really of probably about 4% consensus over the last six or seven weeks. “It might pull the right and the left more center”, he says.
“Priorities have changed. We always joked that it was the two of us, now it’s the three of us”.
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Johnson said they were not reaching 30 million people on social media. Several at the rally held signs calling to “Let Gary debate”. “That’s how insane it is”.
