A few moments before Monday’s debate, Gary Johnson sat down at Twitter’s headquarters to answer questions. Johnson got visibly upset in numerous points of the interview, but none more when he was asked if and his running mate William Weld are “spoiler candidates.”
At first, the Libertarian was asked about foreign policy. He said:
I want to stop with these military interventions! In my heart, I don’t want to send our men and servicewomen to lose their lives, and I don’t want to them to be responsible for what are ultimately thousands of innocent people being killed in these countries.
So Hillary Clinton dots the i’s and crosses the t’s on all the names and everything associated with this, but as a result of that, we have the foreign policy that we have now, that I have to tell you I think is horrible. Horrible!
And that’s how I would answer it tonight. I would be mad. I would be angry. i would be angry that people would people would be calling me out on the names, geographic locations, names of foreign leaders, when the underlying policy has thousands of people dying. And that is unacceptable.
His perhaps most forceful response came when asked if he and Weld were “spoiler” candidates:
Why would you even say that?…We’re giving people a chance to vote for something, as opposed to the lesser of two evils. That’s what we are providing, first vote. You want to waste your vote with Clinton…or Trump, go right ahead and waste your vote. We’re not spoilers, we are the first vote! So I guess we should drop out? Is that your editorial, should we drop out?
Watch the discussion here, with the “spoiler” remarks beginning at 4:45:
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