… A new analysis conducted by Katie Connolly and Joel Benenson of the Benenson Strategy Group, and provided to Crooked Media, demonstrates conclusively that the only person a Howard Schultz candidacy can elect to the presidency is Donald Trump.
The analysis is the most thorough yet conducted by polling experts, and the most generous to Schultz as well. It nevertheless shows that in a three-person race, an independent candidate like him has no viable path to 270 electoral votes, which is the minimum required to win the presidency. Realistically, an independent candidate can only help one major-party candidate or the other reach 270 electoral votes, or it can throw the outcome of the election to the House of Representatives. In either scenario, in a close race, Schultz would help re-elect president Trump. CONT.
Brian Beutler, Crooked Media