Schultz suggested in a letter to supporters that a third-party run could “risk” reelecting Trump—something his many detractors had warned about since he started his game of presidential chicken earlier this year
—wanted him to run. “The reaction we got from the extremes is proof positive that we’ve struck a chord,”Thankfully, the Starbucks billionaire finally seems to have gotten the memo, realizing at long last what his opponents already had: That he stood virtually no chance of winning, but could be a spoiler for the Democrats.
Would Schultz actually have gone through with his hopeless third party run were he not sidelined for health reasons? We’ll never know for sure, but he continued to express concern Friday that a “far-left Democratic candidate could result in more votes for Trump—unless a moderate independent is also on the ballot,” suggesting that he still thinks dividing the Trump opposition would somehow mean a better shot at beating him.
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