Ross Perot’s “giant sucking sound' won him plenty of fans, but it didn’t win him the White House. A generation later, Donald Trump succeeded by doing one key thing differently than Perot.
Henry Ross Perot, in addition to being a successful businessman, was one of the most successful third-party candidates in modern American history."He was different. He was extraordinarily successful in business and that was a point in history, like today, where a lot of people were fed up with politics as usual," Craig Patrick, a political editor at FOX 13 Tampa Bay told FOX TV Stations.
2%," Patrick added. Perot’s second campaign in 1996 was far less successful. He was even shut out of presidential debates when organizers said he lacked sufficient support."In 1996, one of the biggest challenges that independent or third party candidates have is that the effort is generally built around one person, one figurehead, because it's top down, it's not bottom up.
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