If Perot hadn’t run, those voters likely would have stayed home or voted 3rd-party.
Again, can only speak for myself and those I knew - but every one of us that I knew that voted for Perot would have voted for Bush in Perot’s absence.
What a heartbreak it would be to nominate Cruz only to have him taken down by Trump.
I would have stayed home if Perot had not been on the ticket. He had the election won until someone got to him and he said “The democrats have got their stuff together” and got out. Only to get back at a later date.
I know he hated Bush. And so did I.