Gary Johnson on His Bid for the White House
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Gary Johnson, a former two-term governor of New Mexico, was once a staunch advocate for legalizing marijuana. He used to appreciate a good edible, but he’s given up pot now that he is running for President. Johnson joins David Remnick in a discussion about Social Security reform and whether schoolteachers should have semiautomatic rifles in the classroom.
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| 1:11.9 | I'm Dorothy Wickenden. On today's Politics and More podcast, David Remnick talks with Gary Johnson, |
| 1:18.4 | the Libertarian Party's candidate for president. Johnson discusses his platform and his feelings |
| 1:23.8 | about Trump and Clinton. |
| 1:28.3 | One of the many incredible things about this presidential election, and none of us can count |
| 1:33.1 | them at this point, is that Gary Johnson, a two-term governor of New Mexico and a former |
| 1:38.5 | CEO of a company that sells marijuana products, is currently polling at around 8% in matchups against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:47.7 | In order to make it on to the presidential debate stage, he'll need to poll at 15%. |
| 1:52.8 | But even if that doesn't happen, he's still on track to capture the largest share of the third-party vote for president since Rossboro in the 1990s. |
| 2:02.2 | On cultural issues, the libertarians are often to the left of many Democrats, and on fiscal |
| 2:07.1 | issues, they're often to the right of most mainstream Republicans. |
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