Posted on 04/15/2020 11:16:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Rep. Justin Amash is considering a third-party presidential run this year to challenge President Trump and Joe Biden, and will be making a decision “soon,” his campaign said Wednesday.
The campaign for Amash, the former Republican, put out a statement Wednesday saying the Michigan independent will make a decision “soon.”
“In mid-February, Justin Amash paused active campaigning for his congressional seat to carefully consider a presidential run,” his campaign said. “He has been discussing the potential campaign with his family, his friends, his team, and others, and a decision can be expected soon.” […]
Amash is a libertarian-minded conservative who was an ardent supporter of Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, during his 2012 presidential run and backed his son, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. during the 2016 primary election. Amash later endorsed Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, when Paul’s campaign fizzled out and refused to vote for Trump in the general election. …
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Don’t think that will work. NeverTrumpers would vote D anyway, so there won’t be any real change.
True “Republican” neverTrumpers can today be fit in my closet. (And no doubt several of them would like to be there).
He might get a higher than normal amount of votes in his own district but I see no reason to suspect he’d get a lot of votes in the state at large. What’s his name recognition?
Johnson didn’t cost Trump Michigan and Amash would be certain to get fewer votes than Johnson did (in Michigan). Johnson got 3.57% there, I can’t see Amash touching that.
Possibly he could even take more Never Trump votes from Biden. Frankly, he doesn’t worry me. I’d be more worried about him running for reelection and getting enough to elect the rat to the House.
Keep in mind also that there will be a Libertarian party nominee (probably with 50 state ballot access) regardless of his decision to run or not and that person will be the frontrunner to come in third, probably even if it’s wackjob John McAfee. Ideally we’d want someone like Linc Chafee (who sadly dropped out) who appeals to Never Trumpers but has limited appeal to an actual libertarian who might hold his nose for Trump.
We don’t know if he’d get fewer votes than Johnson in his home state. All he has to do is perform slightly better than Johnson. 3.79%, for example, although that would presume the race is identical to 2016, which it won’t be.
I’d bet you your soul that he won’t get 2%.
I hope you’re right, but you know about stupid voters voting stupidly.
Agree. No one seems to figure that Johnson cost Trump NH, MN, possibly NM and that Trump’s total in MI and, I think, WI would have been higher with no Johnson on the ticket.
Johnson ran a national campaign with a party. Monster Mash won’t come near those resources; is barely known outside his district, and is/was known as a conservative. No, he won’t be drawing even 1%.
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