Presidential Field Just Grew By One – Last Minute Candidate

Johnson, the party’s nominee in 2012, told Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto that the nation’s debt – which he estimated would reach $20 trillion by the time President Barack Obama leaves office – is the biggest problem facing the country.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson announced Wednesday that he is seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination for president.

“There’s no advantage to making it official given what I’ll call the clown-car”, Johnson said. Johnson obtained nearly 1.3 million votes for president in the 2012 general election, the most ever by a Libertarian Party candidate.

Regardless, unless-and, realistically, even if-the Commission on Presidential Debates lets him on stage next fall, Johnson is destined to be little more than a footnote again.

He cast himself as a potent alternative to Republican Donald Trump’s hard line stances on deporting illegal immigrants and going after the families of terrorists, and Democrat Hillary Clinton on issues of fiscal responsibility. It’s Democrats and Republicans that contribute to that.

According to the Washington Post, during his 2012 campaign, Johnson received 1,275,923 votes, “the highest overall vote total in the party’s 40-year history”.

“I am hoping to get the libertarian nomination for President in 2016”, Johnson said. “Rand, in his quest to have one foot in the libertarian camp and the other in the establishment Republican museum, has emerged with a vague mix of positions that is clearly not compelling”.