Boston.com: Is Bill Weld setting up a run for president in 2020?
Is Bill Weld setting up a run for president in 2020?
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In 2016, Mitt Romney said he wished the Libertarian ticket was reversed so that fellow former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld was the party’s presidential nominee, instead of Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor.
In 2020, Romney could get his wish.
Weld, the 2016 Libertarian vice presidential nominee and
perennial political candidate, now appears to be laying the groundwork for a presidential run,
according to the libertarian magazine Reason. The 72-year-old former Republican governor has been touring Libertarian state conventions, fundraising, and
endorsing the party’s local candidates,
such as Dan Fishman, a Johnson-Weld campaign staffer and Libertarian candidate for Massachusetts auditor.
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“I’ve learned a lot since 2016,” he said Sunday. “I mean, I do blush to think of some of my early steps.”
Weld also insisted that he has long held positions on government spending, gay rights, and marijuana that departed from the Republican orthodoxy and were largely consistent with the Libertarian Party.
“I don’t think of myself as a moderate at all,” he said. “I think of myself as an extreme on both fiscal policy and social policy. It’s just a different extreme, that’s all.”
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Originally Posted by
angelatc
Not a Weld fan here, but they got more votes for the LP than any other candidate has managed.
Donald and Hillary deserve full credit for that. Johnson & Weld couldn't have done it without the help of the D&R party.
