CIA veteran to enter presidential race to stop Trump
Veteran Republican strategist Rick Wilson, a Florida-based media consultant and outspoken Trump critic, is expected to be involved in McMullin’s campaign. Sources said Wilson was in Washington on Sunday meeting with members of McMullin’s prospective campaign — which includes some who were involved in a group called Better for America, which has been pushing an independent presidential bid.
McMullin did not immediately respond to requests for comment from BuzzFeed News. He would make for an unlikely presidential candidate. He has never held elective office before and has spent most of his career as a CIA officer, according to his LinkedIn page. Young and unmarried, McMullin received an MBA at Wharton in 2011, and after a stint at Goldman Sachs, went to work as a policy wonk on Capitol Hill.
Unlike National Review writer David French, another conservative courted by anti-Trump Republicans to launch a long-shot third-party bid, McMullin has virtually no public profile. He doesn’t appear regularly on television, and has just 135 followers on Twitter. His most high-profile recent appearance seems to have been a TEDx talk about genocide he gave at London Business School in April.
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mea_mark August 8th, 2016 at 09:14
I guess we need to have a Stein Johnson McMullin debate then. The alt debates.
robert August 8th, 2016 at 11:20
Lol exactly. If Stein or johnson can’t play in this election then the gop is stuck with the trumpster. Better luck in 2020
Obewon August 8th, 2016 at 09:32
So he’s a write in candidate like hundreds of other 2016 Wannabees. Here is the list:
THIRD PARTY and INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES:
(Note: Parties with ballot status in at least one state — based on 2012 ballot status — listed first, then all others under the INDEPENDENT & WRITE-IN CANDIDATES header). http://www.politics1.com/p2016.htm
mistlesuede August 8th, 2016 at 09:40
Thanks again for the link Obewon.
And wow!
Larry Schmitt August 8th, 2016 at 09:41
There’s some guy named Zoltan Istvan on that list, (sounds like a character in a bad scifi movie) and he’s a Trans-humanist, whatever that is. Oh, and he’s from California, naturally.
anothertoothpick August 8th, 2016 at 11:11
Don’t mess with the Zoltan.
StoneyCurtisll August 8th, 2016 at 21:27
One of Sandler’s better movies…(IMO)
Mike N. August 8th, 2016 at 11:08
Has Chief Wana Dubie thrown his hat in the ring yet? He just got 9.5% of the primary vote in Missouri to go up against Roy Blunt. If he had won it would have been Blunt vs Dubie in November!
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc266/extremetoy2000/dubie.jpg
StoneyCurtisll August 8th, 2016 at 21:26
Checkin off the top box~!
oldfart August 8th, 2016 at 09:33
The more the merrier.
How much oxygen can he suck out of tRumps campaign ?
mea_mark August 8th, 2016 at 10:13
And Hillarys … If the tRump threat is neutralized, Hillary doesn’t get the fear vote. Hillary needs tRump to be a threat to win.
The Original Just Me August 8th, 2016 at 10:57
Trump’s campaign is based on Methane , not Oxygen. :+)
Mensa Member August 8th, 2016 at 11:19
Curse you! My mind just had a mental visual of Trump’s mouth as one of my disliked parts of the human anatomy.
The Original Just Me August 8th, 2016 at 11:47
Look real close at his lips and you will see Hemorrhoids. LOL :+)
Red Mann August 8th, 2016 at 12:34
Maybe just the meth part.
anothertoothpick August 8th, 2016 at 11:06
I have heard of “one issue” candidates before, but this one takes the cake. Jeeeesh.
Mensa Member August 8th, 2016 at 11:52
But it’s a singular existential issue.
Seriously.. President Trump (shutter) could nuke whole cities for the dumbest reasons.
A CIA guy would understand that.
Snick1946 August 8th, 2016 at 11:13
After today, we won’t hear of him again. This has to be one of the silliest things so far in a very silly campaign. Some unknown dude with 90 days to go decides to run for POTUS to ‘stop Trump’? Wouldn’t he pull some votes fro Clinton as well? No net change IMO. He won’t get the money he would need and will be a faint footnote after November.
Mensa Member August 8th, 2016 at 11:17
>> This has to be one of the silliest things so far in a very silly campaign.
Not even close, in my mind.
The GOP candidates insulting each others penis size is still the low point.
StoneyCurtisll August 8th, 2016 at 21:24
Tiny hands~!
jybarz August 8th, 2016 at 11:19
Zzzzzz….zzzzzzzzzzz…zzzzzzzzzzzz
labman57 August 8th, 2016 at 11:22
McMullin seems like an honorable guy, but at this point, all he could manage to do is to further fracture the conservative vote.
The Republican Party ‘made its bed’ when it nominated Trump — a bloated, bombastic, bellicose buffoon — as its nominee, …
Foundryman August 8th, 2016 at 12:10
The republican party can surely be saved if they do this 17 more times!! Come on baggers!!! Step up and save the party!!!
Ned Nutley August 8th, 2016 at 14:48
Good, split the GOP vote and help Hillary win,
HILLARY 2016!
bpollen August 8th, 2016 at 16:17
Bald-headed Don Key Oatey.
Laudable goals, but “unlikely” doesn’t even begin to describe his chances.
StoneyCurtisll August 8th, 2016 at 21:22
Hold the phone….
A CIA backed Skinhead who has almost zero political/social media background, and is backed by anti-trump forces 3 months before the election…..
I smell a coup..
Or at the very least, an attempt to stop Trump from being elected, by the right, at any cost….
I hope it works…(to Hillary’s advantage)