Thereby allowing Jeb or Hillary! to come across as moderate. He’s in it to win it, but for somebody else.
Don’t get fooled by the Perot gambit.
“Don’t get fooled by the Perot gambit.”
Not the same situation at all. Perot ran as a third-party candidate to split the GOP vote and kill off Bush. Trump, at least as of this writing, is seeking the GOP nomination, so he’s not a spoiler like Perot (that little ferret that gave us the Clintons).