How Much Trouble Could Bill Weld Cause Trump In The 2020 GOP Primary?

By artappraiser on Mon, 02/18/2019 - 2:20am |

By Nathaniel Rakich @ FiveThirtyEight.com, Feb. 15

Here’s a blast from the past: Bill Weld is running for president. Speaking in New Hampshire on Friday, the former Massachusetts governor announced that he was forming an exploratory committee to seek the Republican nomination for president. Weld ran for vice president in 2016 on the Libertarian Party ticket, but he’s working within the two-party system this time. That’s smart in one sense — it’s extremely hard to win as a third-party candidate in the United States — but Weld also faces steep odds in challenging the sitting president in a GOP primary [....]

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