Republican Evan McMullin to launch independent bid for presidency

I don't see the point, frankly. If he's not on the ballot, people have to write him in. I don't think that's ever worked. I don't know if he can get on the ballot in any state at this point.

 

4. Making it on the ballot is pretty unrealistic.


The deadline to get on the ballot has already passed in 26 states that have a total of 294 electoral votes. Translation: the most electoral votes any new candidate could get are 244, short of the 270 needed to win the presidency.


MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Monday on "Morning Joe" that unnamed sources told him that the independent candidacy could be "well-funded" and attempt to get on the ballot in between 20 and 30 states.


"They still believe they can go past the 270 threshold, so this person will be able to be in debates," Scarborough said. "But certainly it is aimed, I believe — and this is just my conjecture, based upon the people I've been speaking with — that this has more to do with stopping Donald Trump than actually electing the president."

 

As write in. I don't know if that's worked for any office in the USA. Possibly minor offices.

 

Lisa Murkowski in Alaska won a senate seat as a write in for the he 2010 election, and Strom Thurmond won a senate seat in the 50s as a write in.

 

George Wallace won a decent number of electoral votes in 1968. Perot won zero.