In a Facebook post Friday morning, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger voiced support for including Johnson and his running mate, Bill Weld, in the televised debates this fall.
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Weld said he viewed the clip and didn’t think It was so bad. “I completely agree”, Schwarzenegger wrote.
Johnson is in the midst of a media blitz in New York City as he tries to reach 15 percent in national polls. So far, he’s hovered at around 10%.
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson would have be shot in the head than have to choose between his two major presidential opponents, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP nominee Donald Trump. “I do understand Aleppo and I. understand the crisis that is going on”.
Boys, one of them in a wheelchair, go down a street in the rebel-held al-Sheikh Said neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria.
Johnson was asked on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, a question about Syria’s largest city, which has been engulfed by the country’s ongoing civil war. Do I understand its significance?
But the bad news: The flub came at an terrible moment for Johnson. But hit with “What about Aleppo?”, I immediately was thinking about an acronym, not the Syrian conflict. The statement says, in part: “I blanked”.
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson will visit Purdue University next week for a speaking engagement that’s free and open to the public.
Johnson and Weld are both former two-term Republican governors who are socially liberal and fiscally conservative.
In the 2012 presidential election, Johnson set a record for most votes won by a Libertarian candidate-about 1 percent of the popular vote-and was aiming to attract disaffected Republicans and Democrats to sustain steady growth in the party.
Johnson expressed disappointment about the Aleppo lapse in a brief follow-up interview that was broadcast on MSNBC and canceled some of his other scheduled interviews that had been planned for later in the day. Asked about the Libertarian candidate’s lack of knowledge about Aleppo during a news conference, she said, “You can look on the map and find Aleppo”.
Mr Johnson later admitted he had “blanked” but said he would “get smarter” following the gaffe.
The misstep comes after another Johnson made this summer that linked Mormons to violence, Karpowitz noted.
“That would begin, clearly, with daily security briefings that, to me, will be fundamental to the job of being President”.
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In a separate interview on ABC’s The View, Johnson explained that he wasn’t trying to make any excuses about his mistake, telling the hosts, “For those who believe this is a disqualified, so be it”.
