What Motivated the McMullin Candidacy

By Jim Swift
Published August 22, 2016 2:14pm ET
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What Motivated the McMullin Candidacy
A former CIA operative and obscure Capitol Hill staffer by the name of Evan McMullin has begun a longshot conservative bid against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein. Over the weekend in the Washington Post, foreign policy reporter Josh Rogin (incidentally a personal friend of McMullin) told readers the story of what […]

A former CIA operative and obscure Capitol Hill staffer by the name of Evan McMullin has begun a longshot conservative bid against Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson, and Jill Stein.

Over the weekend in the Washington Post, foreign policy reporter Josh Rogin (incidentally a personal friend of McMullin) told readers the story of what inspired McMullin to undertake the mammoth task:

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