Texans and independent voters like to vote for somebody who is going to buck the status quo, and isn't going to do as he is told.
Voting third-party in 2016 meant choosing The Green Party's Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, or Independent Candidate Evan McMullion.
I've owned a business for 26 years. My family isn't in politics and my supporters aren't special interest groups in Madison and Milwaukee.
I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.
It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part is getting voters to the point where they think it's thinkable and not a waste of time.
In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.
I'm more interested in policy than politics, and I can do that as an independent person.
Donald Trump is a genuine outsider.
I am an independent reform candidate. I do not represent the past.
When Charlie Crist went independent, I no longer supported him. Just track the money.
I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money.
I was not a Democrat; I was an independent. Here's the thing: You can't win that way. But I didn't know that.
I ran for parliament in 1980 as an independent against Allan J. MacEachen.
I have this belief that Donald Trump keeps floating the idea that he will quit the party and run as an independent if the Republican Party does not treat him fairly.
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.
We should vote for an individual rather than a party.
Traditional Conservative voters like me should lend their support to the Liberal Democrats but I think I am best placed to run as an independent.
I'm an Angus King independent.
You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he ran on, the budget deficit, was in and out of the race a couple of times, and still got 20 million votes, didn't have the Internet.
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.
I'm beholding to nobody, I've spent you know, tens and tens of millions of dollars on the campaign.
I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.
If Bernie Sanders were liberated from the Democratic Party, it might be a whole new ballgame.
A lot of disgruntled Democrats that don't like Obama - old-line Democrats, some of them even conservative - will never vote for a Republican ticket, but they will vote for me as an independent.
