08-08-2016, 03:56 PM
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Wow, this could put Utah back in play! A Mormon 3rd-party GOP candidate!
Third-Party Candidate With GOP Backing, Money Joining Race
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Monday, 08 Aug 2016 09:15 AM
A newcomer to elective politics is jumping into the White House race.
Evan McMullin, chief Republican policy director of the House Republican conference and an alumnus of the CIA, announced Monday that he is launching a third-party presidential campaign. He also brought a campaign website online.
https://www.evanmcmullin.com/
"In a year where Americans have lost faith in the candidates of both major parties, it's time for a generation of new leadership to step up," McMullin told ABC News.
"It's never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton can offer us. I humbly offer myself as a leader who can give millions of disaffected Americans a conservative choice for President."
An anti-Trump group, Better for America, has been working for several months to put a third-party candidate on the ballot, but may face legal battles in states like Texas, where they could have to file suit to be included.
According to ABC, McMullin was born in Provo, Utah, and holds a bachelor's degree in international law and diplomacy from Brigham Young University and a Master's of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
He also was a Mormon missionary in Amman, Jordan for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was in training at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, and after completing his training he volunteered to serve in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, where he worked with counterterrorism and intelligence operations in some of the most dangerous nations, Better for America reported.
After leaving the CIA in 2011, McMullin went to work at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, and two years later become a senior national security advisor for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, later becoming the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reported McMullin's plans first on Monday morning.
Scarborough at first didn't name name either the sources or the potential candidate on air, except to say that he has heard the person is a young former CIA agent.
"I could be wrong at 7:04 [a.m.] but several good sources told me that people, er, Republicans, from let's just say, 'Never Trump land,' found somebody and they're going to put good money behind him," Scarborough said.
But off the show, Scarborough tweeted:
Scarborough later stated McMullin's name on air as well, praising him as "somebody Republicans could get behind," and saying he has "more credentials" to run for the presidency than Trump.
BuzzFeed News also on Monday reported McMullin plans to run and that veteran GOP strategist Rick Wilson, another outspoken Trump critic and media consultant, intends to be involved in the campaign.
Unnamed sources told BuzzFeed that Wilson met in Washington on Sunday with members of a prospective campaign for McMullin, including with Better for America, which has also been seeking an independent candidate.
BuzzFeed said its sources reported McMullin was planning to file paperwork at about noon.
Breaking News at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/third-pa...z4GmC4R2DM
Horoscope score 6-3. That's almost as good as Trump, but not a lot of energy there. Score subject to change because birth time unknown. He does have a few "energetic" aspects, actually, but they don't help him statistically according to my research. Steadiness and policy wonkishness are indicated, plus a bit of a nervous, restless or overly-intellectual disposition.
Third-Party Candidate With GOP Backing, Money Joining Race
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Monday, 08 Aug 2016 09:15 AM
A newcomer to elective politics is jumping into the White House race.
Evan McMullin, chief Republican policy director of the House Republican conference and an alumnus of the CIA, announced Monday that he is launching a third-party presidential campaign. He also brought a campaign website online.
https://www.evanmcmullin.com/
"In a year where Americans have lost faith in the candidates of both major parties, it's time for a generation of new leadership to step up," McMullin told ABC News.
"It's never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton can offer us. I humbly offer myself as a leader who can give millions of disaffected Americans a conservative choice for President."
An anti-Trump group, Better for America, has been working for several months to put a third-party candidate on the ballot, but may face legal battles in states like Texas, where they could have to file suit to be included.
According to ABC, McMullin was born in Provo, Utah, and holds a bachelor's degree in international law and diplomacy from Brigham Young University and a Master's of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
He also was a Mormon missionary in Amman, Jordan for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He was in training at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, and after completing his training he volunteered to serve in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, where he worked with counterterrorism and intelligence operations in some of the most dangerous nations, Better for America reported.
After leaving the CIA in 2011, McMullin went to work at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, and two years later become a senior national security advisor for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, later becoming the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reported McMullin's plans first on Monday morning.
Scarborough at first didn't name name either the sources or the potential candidate on air, except to say that he has heard the person is a young former CIA agent.
"I could be wrong at 7:04 [a.m.] but several good sources told me that people, er, Republicans, from let's just say, 'Never Trump land,' found somebody and they're going to put good money behind him," Scarborough said.
But off the show, Scarborough tweeted:
Scarborough later stated McMullin's name on air as well, praising him as "somebody Republicans could get behind," and saying he has "more credentials" to run for the presidency than Trump.
BuzzFeed News also on Monday reported McMullin plans to run and that veteran GOP strategist Rick Wilson, another outspoken Trump critic and media consultant, intends to be involved in the campaign.
Unnamed sources told BuzzFeed that Wilson met in Washington on Sunday with members of a prospective campaign for McMullin, including with Better for America, which has also been seeking an independent candidate.
BuzzFeed said its sources reported McMullin was planning to file paperwork at about noon.
Breaking News at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/third-pa...z4GmC4R2DM
Horoscope score 6-3. That's almost as good as Trump, but not a lot of energy there. Score subject to change because birth time unknown. He does have a few "energetic" aspects, actually, but they don't help him statistically according to my research. Steadiness and policy wonkishness are indicated, plus a bit of a nervous, restless or overly-intellectual disposition.