The former CEO of Starbucks makes the big nights nerve

WASHINGTON – Few candidates have been as instantaneously rejected as former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. As soon as he revealed his intention to compete as an "independent centrist", a name has shifted from the past to the present: Ralph Nader, for many, responsible for Al Gore's defeat in the 2000 presidential election. hands of

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The presence of "third party" candidates in the presidential elections has always been a headache for Republicans and Democrats. The Republicans, now in the White House, blame Ross Perot for the defeat of George H. W. Bush in 1992 before Bill Clinton. The Democrats, Nader for the failure of Gore. In 2016, many people, with the calculator in hand, counted votes cast by environmental candidate Jill Stein: they were votes that could have been obtained in newspapers.

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The ghost of 2020 has a name: Howard Schultz. If, in the end, he decided to compete, Schultz already foresaw that he would do it outside the two "big" ones of American politics.

"Do not help me choose Trump, selfish multimillionaire fool!", Launched a man to Schultz, at one of his first events. The video with the explosive manifestation has become viral in the networks.

Like other candidates out of orbit, Schultz attempted to mobilize debate by directly criticizing the bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats, who have succeeded in power for most of the past three years. political history of the United States.

"Imagine that if more elected leaders collaborate, place the country above the party and only be indebted by the best ideas that serve the interests of more Americans," Schultz writes in a column of opinion. from Journal.
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For the moment, Schultz is only flirting with the possibility of being a presidential candidate. But, considering that the nearest presidential elections were resolved in a handful of states by a few thousand votes or less, the mere mention of their presence in 2020 allowed several Democrats to cry out in the heavens, out of fear that you could lose any chance of defeating Trump.