The boss joined George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week to discuss the state of the GOP nomination race, along with Jon Karl, Jennifer Granholm, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, and Ana Navarro.
During the opening of the show, the boss brought up the idea of an independent third-party candidate should the race be Trump-Clinton.
KRISTOL: The only thing that appeals to me is what Reince Priebus attacks as a dumb idea, which is giving the American people a better choice than Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, if Trump is the Republican nominee, which I agree looks increasingly like not a done deal. I think an independent candidacy is totally doable. I think it will happen. The ballot access problems are not. In the Super Bowl there are two — STEPHANOPOULOS: — coming up on the filing deadlines — KRISTOL: — oh, Texas, North Carolina. Every other state — no other state’s filing deadlines’ before June 27th. You couldn’t wait until the convention. You’d have to decide after Indiana, possibly after California. I think there will be legal challenges in Texas and North Carolina that the deadlines are too early. In the ’80s, five states were successfully challenged in federal court for having such early filing deadlines. And I think a lot of patriotic Americans are going to look at this choice and — ranging from activists to donors to possible candidates and say the country deserves better than a Clinton-Trump choice.
Watch the video below.
And be sure to check out a bonus interview, which aired live on Facebook just after the show:
