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Libertarian VP Candidate Bill Weld Still Thinks Donald Trump Can Win
ABC News ^ | October 13, 2016 | Robin Gradiso

Posted on 10/14/2016 7:26:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld isn't counting Donald Trump out of the running in the aftermath of last week's revelation that he made lewd comments about women in 2005.

“I wouldn’t say I am confident that he is out of it," said Weld. "You can’t discount the possibility that there are a lot of people out there that don’t want to tell the pollsters that they are voting for Donald J. Trump.”

When asked by ABC News Political Director Rick Klein and ABC’s Brad Mielke on ABC’s Powerhouse Politics Podcast Wednesday whether vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence would distance himself from Trump, Weld said that Pence is “all that is sticking between the Republican Party and the ... potentially free-fall situation."

"I think [Pence] is helping Trump a lot just by being there. So I wouldn’t look for him to do an open break," Weld said, adding that, because Pence is socially conservative, he was most likely to be troubled by the lewd Trump tapes.

Weld also shared his opinion that his Libertarian running mate, Gary Johnson, will win several states on Nov. 8....

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TOPICS: Massachusetts; Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: lping; pence; trump; weld

1 posted on 10/14/2016 7:26:32 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
""You can’t discount the possibility that there are a lot of people out there that don’t want to tell the pollsters that they are voting for Donald J. Trump.”

Also called the 'Shy Tory Factor'

We saw this recently with the Brexit vote.

People who support positions that run against the mainstream groupthink are sick and tired of being attacked verbally and physically by brainwashed cretins, so they just don't answer or outright lie simply to avoid inane conflict.

I found myself doing this long before I learned it was a recognized phenomenon.

Click the Gadsden flag for pro-gun resources!

2 posted on 10/14/2016 7:31:32 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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I saw ABC’s local Eye Witness News yesterday and their national nightly news, and it was so biased.


3 posted on 10/14/2016 7:47:09 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just tuned into glen becks pathetic show for some comic humor and he was seriously interviewing the loser in utah Evan MuMullan who is neck and neck with Trump and the hildabeast.He says, “yeah once you win Utah the other states will fall in place,what a putz..
Beck is never far from the ledge,also perched just about to fall over into never never land.


4 posted on 10/14/2016 7:49:18 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Go Sarah go! America home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why should I care what a drunken Irishman from Boston thinks? I didn’t care what Teddy Kennedy thought. I do not care what Bill Weld thinks. I only care about kicking them to the political graveyard and working to elect Donald J. Trump.


5 posted on 10/14/2016 8:20:34 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (A Vote for Hillary is a Vote for ISIS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What the heck is LIBERTARIAN about wanting to disarm Americans, by force if necessary, and hand FedGov a monopoly of force? I thought LIBERTARIANS believed in the non-aggression principle. Unless you’re from gun-grabbing MASSACHUSETTS, I guess.


6 posted on 10/14/2016 8:34:02 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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