{"id":260937,"date":"2016-08-10T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gop-never-trumpers-get-their-spoiler-candidate-an-ex-goldman-banker-and-former-cia-spook\/"},"modified":"2016-08-10T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:52:20","slug":"gop-never-trumpers-get-their-spoiler-candidate-an-ex-goldman-banker-and-former-cia-spook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gop-never-trumpers-get-their-spoiler-candidate-an-ex-goldman-banker-and-former-cia-spook\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP "Never Trumpers" Get Their Spoiler Candidate: An Ex-Goldman Banker and Former CIA Spook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"EvanRepublicans have for months been calling for the emergence of an independent right-winger to challenge Donald Trump. Evan McMullin has now come forward to fill this space. (Photo: TEDx LondonBusinessSchool<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A former congressional wonk, covert CIA agent and Goldman Sachs investment banker has emerged as an eleventh-hour Republican challenger to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Evan McMullin announced Monday that he would run as an independent conservative candidate for president. Until revealing his campaign<\/a>, he was a senior policy staffer for House Republicans.<\/p>\n

A virtually unknown figure that has already missed his chance to even vie for an Electoral College majority<\/a>, McMullin, at this point, can only play the role of a spoiler. He appears intent on it.<\/p>\n

“Republicans are deeply divided by a man who is perilously close to gaining the most powerful position in the world, and many rightly see him as a real threat to our Republic,” he said in a statement on a newly established campaign website.<\/p>\n

McMullin could impact the race in a few improbable swing states. Reliably Republican states that have either come into play for Hillary Clinton or show signs of being within reach for her this November include Arizona<\/a>, Georgia<\/a>, Mississippi<\/a> and Utah<\/a>. Of the four, the deadline for independent candidates to apply to get on the ballot has only passed in Georgia.<\/p>\n

Analysts, in particular, believe that McMullin will be most likely to impact the race in Utah<\/a>. Trump has been deeply unpopular in the state throughout the Republican primary, and handily lost the Utah caucus to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). McMullin is Mormon, as are a majority of the state’s residents.<\/p>\n

“Given his obvious personal instability, putting him in command of our military and nuclear arsenal would be deeply irresponsible,” McMullin said on Monday, of Trump.<\/p>\n

McMullin appears motivated, in particular, by Trump’s Islamophobic ravings and his attacks on Ghazala and Khizr Khan, the parents of a decorated soldier who was killed in combat in Iraq, who…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Republicans have for months been calling for the emergence of an independent right-winger to challenge Donald Trump. Evan McMullin has now come forward to fill this space. (Photo: TEDx LondonBusinessSchool) A former congressional wonk, covert CIA agent and Goldman Sachs investment banker has emerged as an eleventh-hour Republican challenger to Donald Trump. Evan McMullin announced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-260937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}