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Over the weekend, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sent the liberal media into a tailspin by announcing he was seriously exploring the idea of running as an independent candidate in 2020. Instead of treating him as just another candidate in what was turning out to be a very crowded field Monday evening, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) treated him as a threat to the Democratic Party’s chances of beating President Trump.
After NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt noted the announcement had left “Democrats up in arms”, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell declared: “Billionaire former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz could be brewing trouble for Democrats in 2020.”
Mitchell went on to recall how “third-party candidates have changed elections”, such as Ross Perot cost George H.W. Bush his reelection. “[Former New York Mayor Michael] Bloomberg, exploring running as a Democrat, tweeted that he had considered running as an independent before, but ‘an independent would just split the anti-Trump vote and end up re-electing the president,’” she added, just as the other networks did.
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