Julian Castro, the former secretary of Housing and Urban Development and a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president, urged former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on Sunday to “think about the negative impact” of running for president as an independent candidate.
Schultz said in a “60 Minutes” interview set to air Sunday that he was seriously considering an independent bid for the White House.
“I have a concern that if he did run that, essentially, it would provide Donald Trump with his best hope of getting re-elected,” Castro told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview. “Just the other day, there was a fairly comprehensive poll taken that showed, essentially, right now, that the President has a ceiling of about 41 or 42 percent, in terms of support for him, no matter which Democratic candidate they polled against him.”
“So his only hope, if things stayed the same — and that’s a big if — is essentially to get somebody else, a third-party, to siphon off those votes.”
Watch below:
Julian Castro on a possible Howard Schultz independent presidential bid: "I would suggest to Mr. Schultz to truly think about the negative impact that that might make." pic.twitter.com/E50VjlQgRR
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) January 27, 2019
If Schultz is serious about running for POTUS, and since he’s a Dem., let him run as a Dem. What would be his point running as an Indy? Does he want to split the vote and give us another deplorable? I hope he gets some real advice from people that know how this works or he’s going to make a lot of people angry.
How often does this have to fail, either during the campaign or, worse, after they are elected, before these idiots figure out that the notion of a third-party hero swooping in to save the day, to do what nobody else can do, is pure fantasy?
The reality during the campaign is that the most likely outcome is that you will facilitate the election of the worst-choice candidate. The reality after a potential victory is that you have no power base from which to build support for your initiatives and that neither party has much of an incentive to work with you. This just doesn’t work, it’s never worked, and it’s not going to work now.
Edited to add that I’m sick and tired of CEOs, along with far too many idiots in the media and far too many voters, who think that running a government is just like running a business and that success at the former will lead to success at the latter. A President is not a CEO.
He’ll find another pony as soon as his book sales fail to meet expectations.
We may have to do his thinking for him.
OT
Is anyone else watching Stone on ABC whine about “the way he was treated” by the FBI concerning his arrest?
It’s highlarious.