No. He would never win without the campaign staff and apparatus of a major political party. He knows this already, which is why he quickly ditched the idea of running as the Reform Party candidate back in 2000.
No. He would never win without the campaign staff and apparatus of a major political party.
Maybe that’s true as a non-incumbent. But as an incumbent president he has advantages that might more than offset losing the half-hearted support of the GOP party machinery and the tarnished GOP brand.