Posted on 05/24/2011 6:26:32 PM PDT by ejdrapes
Trump looking into running as an independent in presidential election The Daily Caller has learned that despite dropping his name from consideration as a Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump is researching the possibility of running for the White House as an independent. After the Trump 2012 speculation died down, Trump again raised the specter of a candidacy when he said on “Fox and Friends” that he “can’t rule out anything.” Before his appearance Monday on the Fox News morning show, Trump spoke with a veteran election law expert to see what it takes to be an independent candidate. Richard Winger told TheDC that he had a very quick conversation with Trump about a week ago but “at the time, he maybe didn’t think he really wanted to run for president at all. That’s what he said a few hours after I talked to him.” Ads by GoogleWinger is the publisher and editor of Ballot Access News, covering all aspect of election laws and rules and knows the requirements for independent candidates like the inside of a voting booth. “I was just there to tell him just in case he needed know that if he wanted to get on the ballot as an independent, it wasn’t all that difficult,” said Winger, who was cautious about any perceived “advice” he gave Trump. “Then he asked me what,” said Winger, who began to chuckle, “what I thought he should do.” In short, Winger made it clear that Trump just needs enough cash and fresh bodies to collect signatures in each state before June 3 to get on ballots nationwide. In all but six early states, the cut-off for petitioning to be put on the presidential ballot is July, August or September. Nationwide, Trump would need about 750,000 valid signatures. That, of course, requires petitions and to gather that many signatures after jumping into the race so late in the game, would require hiring an army of professional petitioners. “Well, if a person started early, they could probably do it for just $3 million dollars,” said Winger who said it could be triple that for Trump should he wait until June, when his “Celebrity Apprentice” contact ends with NBC. “You save a lot of money by starting early because professional petitions are much cheaper in odd years than they are in even years,” said Winger. “On even years there’s a lot of demand for their services and their prices’ll go up.” It could be chump change for Trump, who claims to be is worth $7.5 billion.
Published: 7:52 PM 05/24/2011 | Updated: 8:41 PM 05/24/2011
So where are all the Trump for Prez people tonight?
I knew he was bad news from the start, a fake “conservative” if there ever was one
Perot II, under control of Obama. Wonder what he’ll get out of it?
Give it a rest, Donald. The joke was funny but it's over.
Trump looking to split the vote and assure 0bama’s reelection.
It all depends on how much Soros will pay him to ciphon votes from Palin.
In all likelihood, the scheme wouldn’t work anyway. A lot of Obama votes could go to Trump.
I knew it. He plans on being a spoiler for the GOP to make sure Obastard wins a second term. Anybody who votes for him is a fool.
Who knows. I’m not surprised..
If this is true, I did have a slight bit of respect for Trump, but if he’s going to become another Perot, then F the POS.
The “No Labels” crowd are starting to make some noise. I think we may see a new incarnation of the independent to a faux populist movement.
What a POS he is. I`ve always despised him and this is yet one more reason.
FUDT
“Anybody who votes for him is a fool.”
Perot worked fine for Clinton, Trump can do the same for Obama. It does not take too many fools for this to work, a few percent is enough.
The stench of Ross Perot .... he reeks of it.
He really is an obama zombie...follow the money.
Trump will only run if it looks like Obamby needs him to split off a bunch of the R, the L and the I votes.
The charlatan at work again.
I agree with your post.
FUDT!
Now it’s perfectly clear. He played us with the BC until Obama released the COLB and magically, it all went away and Trump dissapears. Now, it looks like Obama destroyed the OBL death by spiking the football a few dozen times and running around for a few hundred victory laps, and now Trump comes out as a Perot repeat? Nawwwwww. Not this time donald. Go away.
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