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It reads as if GJ is the presumptive nominee and doesn't mention other LP candidates.
More at link.
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35981872
Libertarian Gary Johnson believes this could be the year his party, a perennial non-contender in US presidential elections, shakes up the campaign in a way it has failed to accomplish in past cycles. Andrew Desiderio reports on his chances.
Republicans and Democrats. Democrats and Republicans. Thus it has been, thus it will always be. Or could 2016 - a year of eye-popping firsts in presidential politics - be different? Could it be the moment the Libertarian Party steps into the spotlight?
Mr Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who appears poised to once again be the Libertarian standard-bearer, certainly thinks so. He views his party as the natural home for Republicans recoiling from the prospect of Donald Trump as their nominee.
"If they're honest with themselves and they really are about smaller government, then I'm it," Mr Johnson said in a recent interview with the BBC in Washington.
There is some evidence to back up Mr Johnson's hopes. Mr Trump has eye-popping unfavourably among female voters, minority groups and even the most conservative Republicans.
An exit poll from the 15 March primaries showed that 61% of GOP voters who did not cast their ballots for Mr Trump would seriously consider a third-party alternative to Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic party nominee.
Republicans and Democrats. Democrats and Republicans. Thus it has been, thus it will always be. Or could 2016 - a year of eye-popping firsts in presidential politics - be different? Could it be the moment the Libertarian Party steps into the spotlight?
Mr Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who appears poised to once again be the Libertarian standard-bearer, certainly thinks so. He views his party as the natural home for Republicans recoiling from the prospect of Donald Trump as their nominee.
"If they're honest with themselves and they really are about smaller government, then I'm it," Mr Johnson said in a recent interview with the BBC in Washington.
There is some evidence to back up Mr Johnson's hopes. Mr Trump has eye-popping unfavourably among female voters, minority groups and even the most conservative Republicans.
An exit poll from the 15 March primaries showed that 61% of GOP voters who did not cast their ballots for Mr Trump would seriously consider a third-party alternative to Mr Trump and Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic party nominee.
More at link.
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35981872
