The North Carolina-based Civitas Institute released the findings of a nonpartisan poll on Wednesday that will be sure to anger the Democrat Party and their allies in the mainstream media. 
Civitas conducted the <a href="https://www.nccivitas.org/2017/2016-election-held-unaffiliated-voters-vote-trump/">poll</a> August 7 and 8, surveying 400 registered, likely, and unaffiliated voters. 
Their participants were asked: 
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The poll found that 43% would vote for Donald Trump while Hillary Clinton only won 39%. Third party Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson won 9% while the other 9% refused to answer or were unsure. 
This will come as a surprise to the Left and the mainstream media, which have been insisting that Trump is unpopular thanks to a variety of manufactured controversies like the Russia collusion conspiracy theory, his attacks on the press, and his perceived unpopularity. 
Civitas President Col. Francis De Luca explained, &#8220;This result appears to illustrate two things: that Trump voters are sticking with him, and that elections are binary. Despite Donald Trump&#8217;s perceived unpopularity, when compared to another actual candidate, he remains ahead.&#8221;
The shocking thing is that unaffiliated voters tipped the scale in Trump&#8217;s favor. For weeks, the media has been parroting the Democrats&#8217; talking point that Trump&#8217;s base is weakening. 
Instead, the opposite seems to be happening. His base only seems to grow stronger as the Left continues their relentless attacks on the Republican president.
Josh Kraushaar, politics editor at National Journal, pointed out on Twitter, &#8220;Trump won by 4 in 2016. &#8216;Leading&#8217; by 4 now.&#8221;
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Civitas polled election do-over in North Carolina: Trump 43%, Clinton 39%, Johnson 9%. Trump won by 4 in 2016. &#8220;Leading&#8221; by 4 now.
&#8212; Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) <a href="https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/900401520956649473">August 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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New Poll Shows Trump Wins The 2016 Election If Held Again Today

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As we&#8217;ve all been assured, fully 100% of millennials believe that Trump is NOT THEIR PRESIDENT and thus of course want him impeached, and probably imprisoned, for the crime of preventing the woman they all love and revere (despite all the mean things she said about their beloved anti-capitalist Bernie Sanders) from taking her rightful place atop the evil empire that is the USA. But a new <a href="https://whatsgoodly.com/survey/125/">survey</a> Whatsgoodly conducted in partnership with Daily Wire found that, weirdly, the supposedly homogenous millennials are not so sure about impeaching Trump after all.
In an online survey of over 1,300 millennials conducted from June 13-20, a little less than half (47%) said Trump &#8220;should be impeached,&#8221; while 35% said &#8220;no,&#8221; and 18% said they were &#8220;unsure.&#8221; 
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Unsurprisingly, the political and ideological leanings of the respondents played a strong role in how much they were convinced of Trump&#8217;s innocence or guilt. While 79% of self-described &#8220;liberals&#8221; said he should be impeached (7% no, 13% unsure), almost the exact same percentage, 78%, of &#8220;conservatives&#8221; said he should not face impeachment (9% yes, 13% unsure). The &#8220;centrists&#8221; were more evenly split: 40% said yes, 31% said no and 29% said they were unsure.
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The divide was similar when broken down by whom the respondent supported in the election. Pro-Clinton respondents were heavily in favor of impeaching the man who beat their candidate of choice (76% yes, 10% no, 13% unsure). Those who are pro-Trump were mostly certain that their man was clean (6% yes, 88% no, 6% unsure). Those who said they &#8220;wrote in Bernie&#8221; were a little less convinced of Trump&#8217;s guilt than the Clinton fans (69% yes, 9% no, 22% unsure). Gary Johnson supporters were the most centrist of the four (24% yes, 48% no, 22% unsure). 
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Gender also seems to have played a significant role in the response of millennials, with more female young people (53%) thinking Trump is guilty than male millennials (40%):
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The race of the respondents also appears to have a correlation with their perspective on the &#8220;old, white male&#8221; president. More self-identified minorities think Trump should be facing impeachment than whites: 61% of both blacks and Hispanics said yes to impeachment, while 53% of Asians agreed; a total of 43% of whites said yes. 
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A new Daily Wire/Whatsgoodly survey asked students if they believe radical Islam has connections to terrorism. One-third of the respondents were unwilling to make that connection.
The online survey, conducted from June 6 to June 12 gauged the opinions of 1,489 college students (margin of error +/-3%) from all over the country and all over the ideological map. Asked &#8220;Do you believe radical Islam has connections with terrorism?&#8221; a total of 66% said &#8220;yes,&#8221; 15% said &#8220;no,&#8221; and 17% said they were &#8220;unsure.&#8221;
The survey found significant differences in the association of radical Islam with terrorism according to the political leanings of the respondents. Among the &#8220;pro-Clinton&#8221; respondents, 62% answered yes, 19% said no, and 19% were unsure if radical Islam has connections with terrorism. The &#8220;pro-Trump&#8221; respondents much more strongly associated radical Islam with terrorism: 89% yes, 5% no, 6% unsure. &#8220;Pro-Gary Johnson&#8221; respondents fell in between the two: 83% yes, 6% no, 11% unsure. Bernie Sanders supporters saw the issue similarly to Clinton supporters: 66% yes, 17% no, and 17% unsure.
The &#8220;pro-Clinton&#8221; respondents outnumbered the &#8220;pro-Trump&#8221; respondents by nearly two to one, though the largest percentage (40%) said they did not vote; among that group, 59% said yes, 19% said no, and 22% said they were unsure. Below is the breakdown by vote: 
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Of those who chose to offer their ideological leanings, those who leaned &#8220;liberal&#8221; were the largest percentage (40%), followed by those who described themselves as &#8220;centrist&#8221; (31%) and finally those who leaned &#8220;conservative&#8221; (29%). The conservatives connected radical Islam to terrorism the most consistently (94%) compared to 73% of those who described themselves as liberal and 74% of the centrists.
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Significantly more of the male respondents (82% yes, 8% no, 10% unsure) were willing to say that radical Islam is connected to terrorism compared with the females, of which only 63% said yes (16% no, 21% unsure). Slightly more of the respondents were male than female (54/46).
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Roughly a third of respondents provided their religious affiliations, among those 50% said they were Christian, 10% said they were Jewish, and 40% said &#8220;other.&#8221; Responses from those three categories were similar, ranging from 78 to 83%:
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EXCLUSIVE: Poll Shows A Third Of Millennials Unwilling To Connect RADICAL ISLAM To Terrorism

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In an interview with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/27/gary-johnson-tax-policy-evan-mcmullin-utah">The Guardian</a>, Libertarina presidential candidate Gary Johnson sarcastically referred to himself as an &#8220;idiot.&#8221;
After Johnson had a contentious exchange with an interviewer from HBO, Paul Lewis, a reporter for The Guardian, asked, &#8220;Is it the same questions you get again and again?&#8221;
Johnson responded, &#8220;I am an idiot. I am the dumbest guy you&#8217;ve ever met in your whole life.&#8221; When Lewis queried whether Johnson was being sarcastic, Johnson said ruefully, &#8220;I hope it&#8217;s sarcasm &#8230; &#8216;Here is what you answered, so obviously you&#8217;re a dummy; how do you respond to you&#8217;re being a dummy.&#8217;&#8221; He protested, &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m not a dummy; I&#8217;m not. And yeah, I&#8217;m human.&#8221;
When Lewis asked why Johnson was &#8220;doing so badly&#8221; despite the huge unpopularity of the two major presidential candidates, Johnson answered, &#8220;I would argue just the opposite; this is phenomenal. We got 12 million bucks; we&#8217;re at 10% plus in the polls; we&#8217;re leading among independents, among young people, among active military personnel. This is a celebration!&#8221;
Lewis pointed out that Johnson&#8217;s polling average has dropped to roughly six points; prompting Johnson to argue, &#8220;Well, this Real Clear Politics; this was one of my yelling points earlier, is that, you know what? Pick your poll. Pick your poll. If you want to say I&#8217;m at 6.1%, yesterday I was in Virginia; 15%, New Mexico I&#8217;m at 24. I don&#8217;t know where 6.1% comes from; I have no idea.&#8221;
When Lewis stated that the 6.1% figure was an average from all of the polls, Johnson snapped, &#8220;Then why are you here then, at 6.1%? Why are you even interviewing me? I don&#8217;t get it. If I&#8217;m doing so poorly, is this to preside over a funeral here? It&#8217;s not a funeral; it&#8217;s a celebration.&#8221;
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Lewis asked Johnson to explain the success of Evan McMullin in Utah
Johnson answered, &#8220;He&#8217;s from Utah. He&#8217;s on the ballot in eleven states, so he can&#8217;t win the presidency. He&#8217;s ensuring that Hillary Clinton will win Utah. You know what? He is what he is. I begrudge no one for entering the race.&#8221;

Gary Johnson Admits He’s An Idiot

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, interviewed by <a href="http://ijr.com/2016/10/722412-gary-johnson-mourns-harambe-asks-why-did-they-have-to-kill-the-gorilla/">Independent journal Review</a>, became another in a long-line of celebrities mouring the death of the silverback gorilla Harambe, saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m sure it was a difficult decision for everyone involved. I mean Why did they have to kill the gorilla? But then, really, who&#8217;s to say?&#8221;
Johnson didn&#8217;t seem to consider the child who may well have been in danger for his life.
Harambe was killed by a single shot at the Cincinnati Zoo on May 28, 2016, after a three-year-old boy fell into the moat at the Gorilla World habitat. After the boy fell in, he climbed a 3-foot-tall fence, crawled through 4 feet of bushes, then fell 15 feet into a moat of shallow water. Zoo officials immediately signaled for the three gorillas in the habitat to return inside, two females did so, but the 440-pound male Harambe climbed down into the moat.
The gorilla became more and more &#8220;agitated and disoriented&#8221; by the screams of onlookers, prompting the gorilla to drag the boy through the water, propping him up when he sat and pushing him down when he stood. Harambe then carried the boy up a ladder out of the moat onto dry land. That was when the gorilla was shot.
The director of the zoo, Thayne Maynard, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/28/us/zoo-kills-gorilla/index.html">asserted</a>, &#8220;The child was being dragged around &#8230; His head was banging on concrete. This was not a gentle thing. The child was at risk.&#8221;
Johnson is not alone among presidential candidates in mourning the death of Harambe; Green Party candidate Jill Stein moaned on Twitter;
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The killing of Harambe 3 months ago today reminds us to be a voice for the voiceless. <a href="https://t.co/wMZpWlLicY">https://t.co/wMZpWlLicY</a> <a href="https://t.co/8WtlDhRlIy">pic.twitter.com/8WtlDhRlIy</a>
&#8212; Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/769972901428748289">August 28, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Libertarian Presidential candidate Gary Johnson, who has been <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9791/gary-johnson-cant-name-leader-north-korea-hank-berrien">struggling with his image</a> as of late, didn&#8217;t help his own cause as he released a statement regarding Donald Trump&#8217;s history with . . . Mowmen?
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Best typo of 2016: Gary Johnson responds to Trump&#8217;s treatment of Mowmen. <a href="https://t.co/a0ZeS2cuHJ">pic.twitter.com/a0ZeS2cuHJ</a>
&#8212; Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) <a href="https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/786429303667892228">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Reaction on Twitter indicated that Johnson may have inadvertently struck many people&#8217;s funny bone:
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Can&#8217;t. Stop. Laughing. <a href="https://t.co/yAp4vLmWaG">https://t.co/yAp4vLmWaG</a>
&#8212; GidgetWA (@GidgetWA) <a href="https://twitter.com/GidgetWA/status/786444107266666497">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Oh my god, he groped the landscapers, too? <a href="https://t.co/AdbJkbvjKL">https://t.co/AdbJkbvjKL</a>
&#8212; Josh Barro (@jbarro) <a href="https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/786412882720354305">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Gary&#8217;s got the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mowmen?src=hash">#mowmen</a> vote locked up tbh <a href="https://t.co/6VTYxaNKpY">https://t.co/6VTYxaNKpY</a>
&#8212; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/786416242093465600">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Maybe he&#8217;s worried about mowmen because he&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamGrass?src=hash">#TeamGrass</a> ? <a href="https://t.co/Q9dMzKwIkI">https://t.co/Q9dMzKwIkI</a>
&#8212; Sarah Rumpf (@rumpfshaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/rumpfshaker/status/786440562840735744">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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let&#8217;s all take a moment from sobbing about a serious issue to laugh at johnson&#8217;s inability to avoid his own feet <a href="https://t.co/m4yTq5jeoE">https://t.co/m4yTq5jeoE</a>
&#8212; Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) <a href="https://twitter.com/mgerrydoyle/status/786413404411932672">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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I see Gary is up late smoking weed again <a href="https://t.co/BdUbbKzHhX">https://t.co/BdUbbKzHhX</a>
&#8212; (((Tim O&#8217;Donnell))) (@TimothyODonnel2) <a href="https://twitter.com/TimothyODonnel2/status/786443655875670016">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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First they came for the Mowmen, and I did not speak out, because I was not a&#8211;what the fuck is a Mowmen? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/feeblestcampaignever?src=hash">#feeblestcampaignever</a> <a href="https://t.co/Nt0TNmANob">https://t.co/Nt0TNmANob</a>
&#8212; Christopher Orr (@OrrChris) <a href="https://twitter.com/OrrChris/status/786440902516445184">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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give me ONE &#8230; MOWMEN in tiiiiiiiime &#8230; <a href="https://t.co/XnzrUANB99">https://t.co/XnzrUANB99</a>
&#8212; BobTheWriter (@bobbymathews) <a href="https://twitter.com/bobbymathews/status/786441302539853824">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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You know, this would&#8217;ve been a good year for the Libertarian Party to run a candidate who isn&#8217;t a dope. <a href="https://t.co/eL70Cw5dIi">https://t.co/eL70Cw5dIi</a>
&#8212; Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/786432371004362752">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/pbump">@pbump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC">@KatyTurNBC</a> <a href="https://t.co/N9jSvZ1kEK">pic.twitter.com/N9jSvZ1kEK</a>
&#8212; Danny (@abcdannye) <a href="https://twitter.com/abcdannye/status/786428728670695426">October 13, 2016</a></blockquote>
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Given the nature of the presidential campaign, with all the vitriol being hurled, perhaps we should send Johnson a thank-you note for providing a moment of hilarity. 
H/T <a href="http://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2016/10/13/mowmen-tum-gary-johnsons-statement-about-allegations-against-trump-features-best-typo-of-2016/">Twitchy</a>

Gary Johnson Screws Up AGAIN In  Slamming Trump’s History With ‘Mowmen’

Apparently all the marijuana Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson has smoked has truly affected his brain; for the third time in the last month, he revealed that he is either ignorant of foreign affairs or simply amnemonic when it comes to the issue.
On Wednesday, interviewed by <a href="http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/gary-johnson-campaign.html">The New York Times</a>, Johnson was asked if he knew the name of the leader of North Korea. Johnson answered, &#8220;I do &#8230; you want me to name the person &#8230;&#8221; then added sarcastically, &#8220;Really.&#8221;
But no name emerged from the marijuana champion. Kim Jong-un&#8217;s name was nowhere to be found.
Johnson had already demonstrated his memory glitches twice in September, when asked what he would do about the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo, on September 8, Johnson, befuddled, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-johnson-syria-aleppo-what-is-2016-9">replied,</a> &#8220;What is Aleppo?&#8221; On September 28, asked to name a foreign leader he admired, Johnson <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/gary-johnson-aleppo-moment-foreign-leader-msnbc-2016-9">failed</a>, finally confessing, &#8220;I guess I&#8217;m having an Aleppo moment.&#8221;
Johnson protested to the Times, &#8220;Because Hillary Clinton can dot the i&#8217;s and cross the t&#8217;s on geographic leaders, of the names of foreign leaders, the underlying fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died in Syria goes by the wayside.&#8221; He added that Clinton &#8220;bears responsibility for what&#8217;s happened, shared responsibility for what&#8217;s happened in Syria. I would not have put us in that situation from the get-go.&#8221;
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Johnson complained that he did not have the advantage Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton enjoyed because he lacked the classified briefings they were given.
Johnson also admitted that he could not win the election, confessing, &#8220;Right now it&#8217;s a Hail Mary, not being in the presidential debates.&#8221;

Gary Johnson Can’t Name The Leader Of North Korea

If ignorance were a virtue, then Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson would be a saint. Less than a week after his fateful &#8220;Aleppo moment&#8221; at a presidential town hall, where he failed to identify a single world leader he admired, Johnson attempted to justify his lack of knowledge by suggesting it&#8217;s an asset. 
In an interview with MSNBC&#8217;s Andrea Mitchell early Tuesday, Johnson actually tried to pull the &#8220;ignorance is bliss&#8221; card, arguing that there&#8217;s no possible way to send US troops abroad if you don&#8217;t know where to send them. (Fact check: True, but WTF).
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Is this a dare <a href="https://t.co/sLgyw3yTAe">https://t.co/sLgyw3yTAe</a>
&#8212; Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) <a href="https://twitter.com/dylanmatt/status/783349669824860160">October 4, 2016</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The fact that somebody can dot the I&#8217;s and cross the T&#8217;s on a foreign leader or geographic location then allows them to put our military in harm&#8217;s way,&#8221; stated the third party presidential candidate on live television.
Repeating his pre-scripted, reductive rant about the red herring of &#8220;regime change,&#8221; Johnson went on to imply that he would make a competent Commander-in-Chief precisely because he has no understanding of maps:
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We put our military in this horrible situation where we go in and support regime change. They get involved in civil wars where hundreds of thousands of innocent people are in a cross-fire &#8230; we&#8217;re literally shooting at ourselves because we support both sides of a conflict. Syria is an example. We wonder why our men and servicewomen suffer from PTSD in the first place. It&#8217;s because we elect people who can dot the I&#8217;s and cross the T&#8217;s on these names and geographic locations, as opposed to the underlying philosophy, which is, &#8220;Let&#8217;s stop getting involved in these regime changes.&#8221;
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Let&#8217;s parse this out.
First and foremost, the United States is not involved in regime change in Syria. In fact, it&#8217;s the opposite. For nearly five years, the Obama administration has refused to engage in Syrian civil war, allowing the Assad regime to continue its massacre of civilians. Adding insult to injury, the Russians have carved a giant space (or more appropriately bomb crater) for themselves in Syria, supporting Damascus with a regular deployment of bunker-busting bombs over civilian infrastructure. 
And who can forget the Iranians? Slaughtering civilians on the ground by way of their Shiite proxies (namely Hezbollah), Iran now forms the third pillar of the Russia-Syria de facto regional alliance. All of this is to say, that no, Mr. Johnson, the United States of America is not forcing &#8220;regime change&#8221; in Syria. The world&#8217;s only superpower has been humiliated and relegated to the sidelines. 
With Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump attracting historically-low favorability ratings, it&#8217;s a shame the highest-polling third-party candidate is a modern-day Know-Nothing.
Watch Johnson&#8217;s full interview with MSNBC below: 
 
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Gary Johnson: I Don’t Know Basic Geography So There’s No Way To Start A War!

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Three major presidential candidates were asked to name their favorite world leader, and they all gave the same idiotic answer: German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The question became a prominent one after Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson had a massive brain fart and was unable to name any world leaders that he thought highly of when pressed by MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews. When GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump was asked the question on New England Cable News, he responded: &#8220;I think Merkel is a really great world leader, but I was very disappointed that &#8212; when she &#8212; this move with the whole thing on immigration. I think it&#8217;s a big problem and really, you know, to look at what she&#8217;s done in the last year and a half. I was always a Merkel person. I thought really fantastic. But I think she made a very tragic mistake a year and a half ago.&#8221;
Hillary Clinton was also asked the question, and she <a href="http://www.politico.eu/article/in-swipe-at-trump-clinton-names-merkel-as-her-favorite-world-leader/">lavished praise</a> on Merkel as &#8220;an extraordinary, strong leader during difficult times in Europe.&#8221;
&#8220;Her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by,&#8221; Clinton continued.
Johnson&#8217;s running mate, Bill Weld, attempted to bail out Johnson by also naming Merkel as his favorite world leader. Green Pary presidential candidate <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9594/jill-stein-cant-name-foreign-leader-either-hank-berrien">Jill Stein </a>simply doesn&#8217;t understand the definition of a world leader.
The fact that Trump, Clinton and Weld all named Merkel as their favorite world leader makes them sound moronic. Despite the rise of ISIS and the increasing number of terror attacks throughout Europe, Merkel is doubling down on her policy of importing Muslim refugees that have been a disaster for her country, as The Daily Wire&#8216;s Michael Qazvini has discussed <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9068/merkels-muslim-immigration-policy-collapsing-michael-qazvini">here</a> and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/7898/germanys-merkel-sure-these-refugees-are-killing-us-michael-qazvini">here</a>.
In fact, back in August <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/8382/trump-gives-major-anti-terror-speech-hillary-ben-shapiro">Trump hammered Clinton</a> as &#8220;America&#8217;s Angela Merkel&#8221; for wanting &#8220;to increase the flow of Syrian refugees by 550 percent.&#8221; This was an effective attack at the time, but it is now blunted since Trump has said Merkel is one of his favorite leaders.
Such is the state of the country when none of the prominent presidential candidates named Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as one of their favorite world leaders.
(h/t: <a href="http://therightscoop.com/not-making-this-up-they-all-said-angela-merkel-was-their-favorite-world-leader/">The Right Scoop</a>)

Which World Leader Did THREE Major Presidential Candidates Say They Admire Most? The Answer Is Idiotic.

Angela Merkel

So much for Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein&#8217;s alleged intelligence. On Thursday, trying to siphon off support from Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, who on Wednesday had hilariously been unable<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/gary-johnoson-another-aleppo-moment-msnbc-hardball-chris-matthews"> to name</a> a single foreign leader he admired, Stein attempted to mock him by naming her own set of foreign leaders.
<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/298499-stein-attempts-to-mock-johnson-after-foreign-leader-gaffe">One problem</a>: none of the politicians Stein named have ever led their countries.
Stein tweeted: &#8220;Here are a few of my favorite leaders:<a href="https://twitter.com/ElizabethMay/">@ElizabethMay</a>, João Stédile of <a href="https://twitter.com/MST_Oficial/">@MST_</a><a href="https://twitter.com/MST_Oficial/">Oficial</a>and <a href="https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/">@jeremycorbyn</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AleppoMoment">#AleppoMoment</a>,&#8221; Stein tweeted Thursday.
Stein later tweeted more names: &#8220;Berta Cáceres was one of my favorite world leaders, but killed as a result of [former President Bill] Clinton&#8217;s coup in Honduras. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AleppoMoment">#AleppoMoment</a>,&#8221; she added. &#8220;The late Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai founded the Mazingira Green Party in Kenya and was an inspiration to us all.&#8221;
Johnson&#8217;s moment came during an exchange with MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Matthews. After Matthews asked him to name a foreign leader, and Johnson had no answer, saying,
&#8220;I guess I am having an Aleppo moment,&#8221; Johnson then named &#8220;the former president of Mexico.&#8221; Asked who that was, Johnson said he was having a &#8220;brain freeze.&#8221;
Johnson at least has an excuse for his exercise in brain futility, with his <a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/gary-johnson-foreign-leaders">long-standing support</a> of marijuana. But what&#8217;s Stein&#8217;s excuse for being so redolent with ignorance?

Jill Stein Can’t Name A Foreign Leader Either

On Wednesday, marijuana enthusiast and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson failed to identify the name of a single foreign leader he admired when asked to list his favorite at an MSNBC third-party town hall. 
During the &#8220;lightning round&#8221; portion of the town hall, host Chris Matthews directed the question to Johnson, who responded with an absent-minded blank stare. In a futile attempt to save his running mate from another week of media ridicule, vice presidential pick Bill Weld quickly interjected, naming recently deceased former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres as a leader the Johnson-Weld ticket had great respect for. But Matthews didn&#8217;t take the bait. Again, he asked Johnson point-blank: &#8220;Go ahead, you gotta do this. Anywhere. Any continent. Canada, Mexico, Europe, over there, Asia, South America, Africa. Name a foreign leader that you respect.&#8221;
This time Weld couldn&#8217;t throw him a life raft and Johnson quickly sank to the depths of oblivion.
&#8220;I guess I&#8217;m having an Aleppo moment in the former president of Mexico,&#8221; said the Libertarian candidate, alluding to his now-infamous Sep. 8 interview on MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; where he suggested he didn&#8217;t know what &#8220;Aleppo,&#8221; the epicenter of the bloody conflict in Syria, actually was. &#8220;And what is Aleppo?,&#8221; he muttered at the time, coining a phrase that would eventually turn into everyone&#8217;s favorite online meme.
To the chagrin of the Johnson campaign, the Libertarian candidate&#8217;s brain seems to fart an awful lot, raising a stink in the world of 24/7 cable news. 
Here&#8217;s the full <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/495896880/watch-unable-to-name-a-foreign-leader-gary-johnson-has-another-aleppo-moment">exchange</a> between Matthews and Johnson:
<blockquote>
Matthews: Go ahead, you gotta do this. Anywhere. Any continent. Canada, Mexico, Europe, over there, Asia, South America, Africa. Name a foreign leader that you respect.
Johnson: I guess I&#8217;m having an Aleppo moment in the former president of Mexico.
Matthews: But I&#8217;m giving you the whole world.
Johnson: I know, I know, I know.
Matthews: But I&#8217;m giving you the whole world. Anybody in the world you like. Anybody. Pick any leader.
Johnson: The former president of Mexico.
Matthews: Which one?
Johnson: I&#8217;m having a brain &#8230; 
</blockquote>
Watch a video of the exchange here:
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Anticipating a flurry of damning headlines the morning after, Weld, once again, jumped in to save Johnson from an inevitable torrent of mockery. Weld offered the name of former Mexican President Vicente Fox as the man Johnson had in mind, but it was too late. The damage had already been done. Or so you would think.
<blockquote>
&#8220;I guess I&#8217;m having an Aleppo moment in the former president of Mexico.&#8221;
Gary Johnson
</blockquote>
Following the lead of their clueless candidate, campaign operatives tried to put a positive spin on Johnson&#8217;s &#8220;Aleppo moment&#8221; with a populist appeal to the supposedly ill-informed mobs of America. 
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
Gary Johnson&#8217;s campaign manager mounts a stirring defense of his candidate: he&#8217;s just as clueless as most Americans! <a href="https://t.co/zSrp9SjZ7A">https://t.co/zSrp9SjZ7A</a> <a href="https://t.co/OOlR2YzdxZ">pic.twitter.com/OOlR2YzdxZ</a>
&#8212; Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) <a href="https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/781483928565719041">September 29, 2016</a></blockquote>
We&#8217;ll have to wait and see how Americans respond to the campaign&#8217;s &#8216;He&#8217;s a man of the people! He&#8217;s just as ignorant as you!&#8217; pitch. To be fair, it&#8217;s working for Donald Trump.

WATCH: Gary Johnson Can’t Name A Single Foreign Leader He Likes In Another ‘Aleppo Moment’

MSNBC

NBC News

In what can only be described as an &#8220;Oh, Gary&#8221; moment, libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson did something rather unusual during an interview with NBC News&#8217; Kasie Hunt on Wednesday.
Hunt asked Johnson if he believed he could &#8220;pull even&#8221; with Trump and Clinton if he could get on the debate stage. He replied:
<blockquote>
&#8220;I do. And it wouldn&#8217;t have anything to do with my debate performance either. It would just be that people would recognize that there&#8217;s another choice, and that there would be an examination of me and Bill Weld as who we are and what we&#8217;ve done. Based on that.&#8221;
</blockquote>
Johnson then stuck out his tongue, bit down on it, and continued talking:
<blockquote>
&#8220;I think I could stand up there for the whole debate, and not say anything, and emerge as the leader.&#8221;
</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/gary-johnson-bizarrely-sticks-his-tongue-out-at-reporter-like-the-very-serious-candidate-he-is/">Mediaite</a> attempted to translate, but butchered it badly. It&#8217;s understandable. However, we&#8217;re a bit more fluent in weird libertarian here.
It seems he was trying to prove a point that he could be as peculiar as he wanted, and still emerge the victor because the other two choices are just that bad.
It was recently <a href="http://www.debates.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&amp;cntnt01articleid=65&amp;cntnt01origid=27&amp;cntnt01detailtemplate=newspage&amp;cntnt01returnid=80">announced</a> that Johnson wouldn&#8217;t be on the stage for the first debate, missing the 15% polling threshold to compete.
In the five most recent general election polls in which Johnson is included, the candidate averages 8.6%, according to <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/president/">RealClearPolitics</a>.

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