News · moment 9 of 20
Update: Gary Johnson's 3% and Everyone's Tainted Theory
from Vice President Kump · #18
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3 minNews
Another Shannon update on Georgia, New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida polling, followed by a discussion of whether all politicians are secretly blackmailed or compromised in some way.
- 21:10Gary Johnson polls at 3% in the 2016 presidential race.
- 21:24Tim: Gary Johnson is criminal in what he doesn't know.
- 21:52Why there's no viable third party, illustrated by Johnson unable to name a single foreign leader.
- 22:30Johnson has an Aleppo moment trying to name the former president of Mexico.
- 22:54Naming a foreign leader shouldn't be a gotcha question, but it was asked that way.
- 23:14Tim: How did we get to a point where a presidential candidate can't name any foreign leader?
- 23:29Either 85% of political figures have blackmail on them or everyone's just tainted in different ways.
Gary JohnsonDonald TrumpHillary ClintonShimon PeresChris Matthews