National Review writer David French might be the 3rd party candidate

[mscheevus]

Two Republicans intimately familiar with Bill Kristol’s efforts to recruit an independent presidential candidate to challenge Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have told Bloomberg Politics that the person Kristol has in mind is David French -- whose name the editor of the Weekly Standard floated in the current issue of the magazine

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[eveofrevolution]

[invisiblegirlx]

Interesting. Let's see where this goes. If somehow they run a third party and that person can win a few states, that would take the decision of who becomes president to the republican house, no?

[pairatime]

Only if they won enough to stop someone from getting 270 votes. If they only take states from one person or only grab a couple of small states it will change nothing really. More likely it will just split the right's base and make a few more states blue should it happen at all.

[chaya]

So, Kristol fancies himself a kingmaker now?

I suspect this will last about twenty minutes.

[omgitsalexis]

Isnt the National Review a racist publication? Or am I thinking of something else?

[yamamanama]

You're thinking of the right thing.