Ross Perot donated to Trump’s re-election campaign before death: report
By Bradford Betz | Fox News
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Remembering the life and legacy of Ross Perot
Ross Perot was a maverick, a billionaire businessman and the most successful third party presidential candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
In his last documented political act, self-made billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot wrote out two checks to President Trump’s re-election campaign before succumbing to his battle with leukemia at the age of 89, according to a report.
Perot, who ran for president as a third-party candidate in 1992 and 1996, is largely credited with providing a road map for Trump's presidential campaign.
FILE: Ross Perot is shown on a screen in a paid 30-minute television commercial, during a media preview in Dallas. (AP)
Like Trump, Perot ran as a billionaire populist against the Republican establishment. His focus on the North American Free Trade Agreement – rather than the national debt – and his use of cable news for laying out his agenda were both familiar elements of Trump’s campaign.
As Democratic strategist James Carville put it in a 2016 podcast: “If Donald Trump is the Jesus of the disenchanted, displaced non-college white voter, then Perot was the John the Baptist of that sort of movement.”
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Seems an astute characterization.
No doubt for Perot, seeing Trump win the election served as strong personal vindication of his own campaign. It was nice he lived to see it. I'm sure it brought a smile to his face.
Pinguinite posted on 2019-07-10 18:27:48 Reply Private Reply