All this to say, if a Trump presidency scares you, why risk it becoming a reality? In fact, if Johnson doesn’t want to see Trump in power, the only responsible thing for him to do is drop out and endorse Hillary.
If by “interesting” you mean “frightening” then yes I guess it will.
Simon Cohen
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There are a few things I want to address, but I’ll address this part first.

As a New Yorker who is familiar with Trump, the person, compared to Trump, the candidate, a Trump presidency doesn’t really scare me.

Trump, until he placed his name on the Republican ticket, was a registered Democrat, and has supported many liberal agendas. Trump, for all his rhetoric, really isn’t the big, bad wolf everyone thinks/claims him to be.

Now, I’m not certain how much you are aware of how the American political election process works, however it’s not as cut and dried “popular vote wins” the presidency as many are led to believe.

With the primaries now over, Clinton is the Democratic nominee, Trump is the Republican nominee, Johnson is the Libertarian nominee and Stein is the Green nominee. No one mentions that we do have other parties in America, because Democrat and Republican are the major parties that get backed by corporate America.

In November, when John and Jane Q. Public go to vote this year, there will be 4 nominees on the ballot to choose from, which I listed above. Whoever, gets the majority of the popular vote *typically* will become the President of the US.

However, our founding fathers inserted a “get out of jail free card” into our electoral system to insure that the average America voter doesn’t elect the wrong person.

This safe clause is the electoral vote. We saw this in action in the 2000 presidential campaign between George Bush and Al Gore. Gore won the popular vote, but Bush won the electoral vote, and therefore Bush became the 43rd president of the USA.

Now, there’s one more fail safe implemented in our constitution to make sure the “wrong person” doesn’t become president that many are not aware of.

If in November, Trump and Clinton do not receive a majority of the popular vote, and the electoral vote does not grant one or the other a majority (270 electoral votes), then the House of Representatives appoints a president, from whomever they wish to choose.

So, being as Johnson has won his parties nomination. And he has already received the nod from 13 states (out of I believe 23 needed states) to debate on the stage in the general election. And since Johnson is advocating for a lot of the issues on both parties platforms. And with 36% of the US voters fed up with both Clinton and Trump’s talking points and devisiveness within their parties, and seeking a different option to both major party candidates.

Then no, my “this should be interesting” means that this should be interesting. It will be interesting to see how things play out if Johnson gets approval to appear on the debate stage with Trump and Clinton, because once more people hear his platform (and they’re provide an option that is scandal free and racist, sexist, etc speech free) he could walk away with the majority of both popular and electoral vote.

So, yes, it should be interesting.

Have a nice day.