During an interview with erstwhile libertarian presidential candidate Austin Petersen, independent candidate and former CIA agent Evan McMullin explained his platform very candidly: Stop both major party candidates from reaching 270 electoral votes, forcing the decision onto the House of Representatives, or simply keep Trump from winning.
“We’re not trying to win 270 votes…what we’re trying to do is earn enough electoral votes to block Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump if the race between both of them is so close that we are able to do that by running one or two states. So, that’s the idea, but if not that, then we will be happy to have prevented someone who I believe is a true authoritarian from taking power in the United States, and that’s Donald Trump.”
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