Jacqueline Salit, President of IndependentVoting.org has a post on the BLOG of Huntington Post called "Trump's Non-Loyalty Oath: The Question of Independents"
She writes:
As much as Donald Trump called "foul" on tough questioning in the Fox debate, including the Big Question about whether everyone was committed to supporting the Republican nominee, from the point of view of independent voters, the questioners weren't nearly tough enough. Or, put another way, independent enough.
She talks about Trumps involvement with the independent movement:
Trump met with Reform Party leaders around 2000 to test the waters for a run. He attempted to field a slate of pledged delegates to the Reform Party national convention through the New York Independence Party (which elected Mayor Michael Bloomberg the following year), but those slates were disqualified for insufficient signatures. Trump, who had re-registered into the Independence Party, was neither serious enough nor popular enough among independents to meet this simple benchmark. He funded the anti-democracy wing of the party, to no avail. His independent candidacy faded away, before it even began.
Trump has the money to launch an independent bid. It will cost $15 million to get on 50 state ballots and tens of millions more to promote his candidacy. But, as an independent, and with the Republican base tied to whomever the GOP nominee is, he will be hard pressed to poll the 15 percent necessary to qualify for the general election presidential debates.
CLICK HERE to read her post.
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