His campaign has also attracted support from some Republican leaders: He has been endorsed by one current and two former Republican members of Congress.
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I have never subscribed to the theory that a vote for a third-party candidate is a wasted vote.
The lawsuit was filed last week in federal court on behalf of Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein of MA and independent presidential candidate Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente of Florida.
Johnson recently told Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld that he has a “better than 50 percent” chance of ending up on the debate stage.
“The only way of winning is to actually be in the presidential debates” said Johnson during a recent interview. Currently, its co-chairs are the former head of the Republican National Committee, Frank Fahrenkopf, and the former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, Mike McCurry.
“It’s more about the unlikeability of the two major party candidates that is driving this with Johnson and Stein that is creating this big opening”.
The Libertarian presidential ticket of Gary Johnson and William Weld has raised more than $2.9 million since the start of August – more than Johnson’s 2012 Libertarian bid raised through the entire campaign.
Last week, the Libertarian Party of OH raised eyebrows when it filed petitions, seemingly to put its national Presidential candidate Gary Johnson and Vice Presidential Candidate Bill Weld, on the statewide ballot.
Pollsters aren’t the only ones guilty of that, by the way.
Johnson is a former Republican governor of New Mexico who is running with William Weld, a former Republican governor of MA. But Johnson also pretended to pick his nose on air during the interview, so we’re not sure if he was serious.
What did voters learn? They support a fiscally conservative and socially liberal platform. More importantly, they saw an alternative to candidates they find wholly unappealing.
The Commission on Presidential Debates was set up in 1987 as a private, nonprofit corporation to “organize, manage, produce, publicize and support debates for the candidates for President of the United States”.
The commission announced the 15% threshold in October 2015.
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Ohio’s elections chief says he intends to let Libertarians sub in their party’s presidential nominee, Gary Johnson, as they seek to get him on the fall ballot.
