Don't Like Clinton Or Trump? Libertarians Say They're Viable Plan 'C'
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Negative feelings towards the top two presidential nominees are leaving a lot of voters looking for a plan "C." And the Libertarians say they're it.
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, decked out in jeans minus a tie, is quite the contrast of his more conservative running mate former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld.
But the question is can the two together be enough of a contrast to compete against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?
"I think a lot of people are going to consider that a wasted vote is going to be a vote for either Trump or Clinton," Johnson told a rally crowd Wednesday.
Johnson and Weld secured the presidential and vice presidential nomination for the Libertarian party.
CBS4 sat down with two candidates before a town hall meeting at FIU.
"We are two former Republican governors that served in heavily Democratic states and got reelected by being fiscally conservative and socially inclusive," Johnson said.
Weld added, "We totally changed the fiscal economic policies of our states increased employment increased average wages cut taxes, cut spending and the result was greater prosperity."
But here's the problem, besides the almost 600 people who packed the FIU theater, very few people in this country know who they are or know they're running.
Their campaign is working overtime to change that by getting them on the national debate stage with Clinton and Trump.
Gov. Johnson would need to reach 15 percent support in key polls. Some polls show him as high as 9 percent in Florida, others as low as 5.
"I don't think the two parties have earned the monopoly and they're saying we need a monopoly on these debates. We need a monopoly on all of that free advertising," Weld said. "And it's not true. We've had dysfunction in Washington really since the 1994 elections."
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