When asked during an MSNBC interview what he would do about the continuing battle for Syria’s biggest city, Aleppo, which has been in the news daily in recent weeks, Johnson replied, “What is Aleppo?”.
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Johnson: “And what is Aleppo?”. He’s a noninterventionist. Once he got his bearings (perkily replying, “Got it!” to Barnicle’s explanation), he suggested that the Syria problem was a function of American “regime change” efforts (presumably because of the instability in Iraq) and that the best way forward was to partner with Russian Federation.
And an NBC News survey released Tuesday says Clinton leads Trump by only 2 percentage points, 42-40, in a four-way contest with the Green Party’s Jill Stein and Johnson (Johnson’s at 11 percent, Stein at 4 percent).
Schwarzenegger’s call comes just two days after former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney also called for Johnson and his running mate Bill Weld to be allowed to participate in the presidential debates. It’s on the ballot in all 50 states. He’s polling at about 10%, and despite the huge negative perception many voters have of Clinton and Trump, the media rarely notes that Johnson is a relatively popular alternative.
The last few months, various Republicans have frantically sought an independent presidential path.
Plans are in the works to have volunteers do door-to-door canvassing – a get-out-the-vote effort built into the political machines of the Democratic and Republican parties. You did your job as a citizen to vote for a candidate of your choice. Perot proved a spirited challenger throughout the cycle, on his way to pulling almost 19 percent of the vote.
– It’s Gary Johnson’s gaffe seen round the political world. It decides who gets to debate before the American people on television and who does not.
“.I hope the Commission on Presidential Debates will listen to the people and include the Governors”, Schwarzenegger wrote.
With all the talk about rigging the election, here it is!
As it stands now, Johnson wouldn’t make the debate stage.
The editorial called Johnson a “free thinker” and touted the candidate’s position on issues such as criminal justice reform, public education and taxes.
“The 76 percent figure comes from a Suffolk University poll conducted for USA Today [between August 24-29] and released September 1”, PolitiFact notes, and the relevant question was “If a third-party presidential candidate is certified by a majority of state ballots, should he or she be included in the debates this fall”.
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But Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is crisscrossing the country in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to boost his national poll numbers and qualify for the presidential debates. Before I decide if I am voting or not, which would be a sad state of affairs. In 13 of these 14 states, the difference in the average margin between a two-way race and a four-way race was less than 1.5 percent.
