Welcome to another edition of The Schmidt Storm.

You have questions. I have answers.

Is it time to look for a third party, one with common sense, goodwill, centrist policies?

Look, I would love to be a member of that party.

And I do think that if someone wants to start that party, it would not be a bad thing.

But this is a country with two major parties. And the way that the two-party system can be

disrupted is with an independent candidacy, which would cost an excess of a billion dollars

and would be able to navigate the ballot access issues that they would have to deal with in all 50 states.

Look, if more Cuban ran for president, I think he would get a lot of support.

I don't know if he has any interest.

I think that there are some exceptional Americans who have the ability to speak English, to communicate in words, to inspire

with those words, to paint a picture about a horizon that lies over tomorrow's edge with words.

And so if the Democratic Party can't beat MAGA, then they lose the claim to say that an

independent candidate is the automatic spoiler in this race. Maybe it's the Democratic candidate

that would be the spoiler in this race, given the result in this race.

So I think that the majority of Americans were forced into a choice here that the overwhelming

majority of them said from the very beginning they didn't want.

They did not want the choice they had until 100 days out, which was Biden versus Trump. And the result,

you know, is predictable. So in the end, there will not be a third party that is competitive

with the first oldest and third oldest political party in the world in four years. But could some

exceptional American come forward on a platform of decency,

common sense, and goodness and capture the public's imagination in a time where every institution

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