Donald Trump: I'll stay a Republican 'if I'm treated fairly' - otherwise I could still run a third-party White House bid . . . "The
businessman-turned-politician has indicated all along that he could seek
the Oval Office as a third-party candidate, no more prominently so than
at last week's presidential debate, where the admission was met with
boos by a feisty audience.
He
said earlier this summer that he did not want to go that route,
however, because he feared he could play spoiler to the GOP and hand the
election to presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
"As
his GOP competitors have ratcheted up their attacks on him, Trump's
warnings that the Republican Party better play nice with him - or else -
have taken on a more serious nature."
Ross Perot's try at a third party gave us Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton for over two decades.
"Bill Clinton learned a thing or two in 1992. He was elected by only 43% of the vote. Reason: Ross Perot garnered 19% of the vote to George H.W. Bush's 38%. The turnout was just over 55%. Though Perot won no electoral votes to the Electoral College, he skewed the vote in such a way as to thwart the reelection of his perceived nemesis for, of all things, disturbing his daughter’s wedding. Small man. Yet, he didn't start out that way." . . .
Third parties have often given the victory to the lesser in U.S. history.
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