All you need to know about Bill Kristol’s dream 3rd party candidate
Neoconservative, Bill Kristol has been scrounging around for his dream third-party candidate to run against Donald Trump. It would appear that David French is just the deluded man for the job.
The Iraq war was not a mistake. The Iraq retreat was a mistake. D-Day would have been a “mistake” if we invaded then left before victory.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) February 14, 2016
Two Republicans intimately familiar with Bill Kristol’s efforts to recruit an independent presidential candidate to challenge Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have told Bloomberg Politics that the person Kristol has in mind is David French — whose name the editor of the Weekly Standard floated in the current issue of the magazine. French is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom…Reached in Israel late Tuesday afternoon, Kristol declined to comment on his efforts to induce French to run. The two Republicans confirmed that French is open to launching a bid, but that he has not made a final decision.
By many estimates, these numbers are far too low.