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Breaking: 2016 Presidential Field Just Grew By One – Last Minute Candidate Jumps In The Race
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson announced on Wednesday the beginning of his candidacy for president under the Libertarian Party’s banner.
“I am announcing my candidacy right now for the Libertarian nomination,” Johnson told Fox host Neil Cavuto on his Wednesday show.
Johnson ran as the Libertarian Party’s nominee in 2012 after an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination. He garnered 1.27 million votes, which was just shy of 1 percent of the total ballots cast. His showing was the best for an independent candidate since Ralph Nader’s run in 2000.
The former governor believes Sen. Rand Paul, R-K.Y., the current most high profile libertarian-leaning candidate for president, has left an opening for a run, because he has been too quick to compromise. “Rand, in his quest to have one foot in the libertarian camp and the other in the establishment Republican museum, has emerged with a vague mix of positions that is clearly not compelling. There is a price to be paid for selling out — and he is paying it,” Johnson wrote in a blog post in October.
Johnson recently left his position as CEO of the marijuana marketing and packaging company Cannabis Sativa, based in Nevada, to make his bid for the presidency.
The candidate will have to compete for the 2016 Libertarian nomination at the party’s national convention, which will be held May 27-30 in Orlando.
h/t: Washington Examiner
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-2016-presidential-field-just-grew-by-one-last-minute-candidate-jumps-in-the-race/
