The question now is whether Johnson will sustain that, or whether his support will fade as voters take a serious look at their choices.
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Really, Dr. Jill Stein vows to debate the police officers when they arrest her onsite, which Gary Johnson likely will not do as it’s unbecoming for him to be caught in handcuffs on national television, images, or in the headlines.
In an Elway Poll last month of Washington voters Johnson was a distant third, behind Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.
Zimmer declined to go the route of some other anti-Trump Republicans, who have actually endorsed Hillary Clinton, calling her “one of the most left-wing members” of the Bill Clinton administration who has only “moved much farther to the left since then”.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks during a news conference at South Austin neighborhood Thursday, Sept. 8, . Johnson gets 13 percent support and Stein receives 4 percent.
The third-party candidates didn’t register enough support in various polls to qualify, the commission said Friday.
In a national Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday, Clinton led Trump by more than the margin of error in a head-to-head matchup. With Johnson and Stein included, Clinton and Trump are tied, according to the poll. Ask Gary Johnson or Jill Stein this question and their replies would acknowledge that, while the odds are stacked against them, they could win in November if only the American people would divert their eyes from the exhausted spectacle of the bipartisan electoral process.
Stein’s appearance comes as the commission planning the presidential debates says neither Stein or Libertarian Gary Johnson will appear in the first debate set for a week from Monday, because they don’t poll high enough. Johnson and his running mate, former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, have made a recent push for inclusion in the debates, including a full page ad in Wednesday’s New York Times.
He said he plans to have the 15 percent polling threshold to make it to the second debate in early October.
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson and his running mate on Saturday rallied supporters in Seattle and received an enthusiastic welcome. The debate would have offered Johnson and Stein the largest audiences of their campaigns.
In a Presidential Election Characterized by Dissatisfaction With the Status Quo, Why Are Third-Party Candidates Silent on HIV? As an election draws closer, voters tend to engage in what University of Denver political science professor Seth Masket calls “strategic voting”. The Johnson-Weld ticket is a third option to the current two bad choices, Johnson said. Even more than the two major-party candidates, they must publicly address an array of policies that speak to the needs of a diverse American electorate and, at the very least, show familiarity and competence with issues that might not appeal directly to their base but would allow their parties to expand outside the ideologically narrow bubbles they now occupy.
According to the Johnson campaign, target states include Nevada, Utah and Johnson’s home state of New Mexico.
Shouldn’t Johnson get the same chance?
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In 2000, Gore lost Florida to George W. Bush by 537 votes after a recount. Nader got 97,488 votes, about 1.6 percent of the total in the state. “I’m not sure I can say the same about Trump”, said Zimmer.
