Businessman and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot died Tuesday at the age of 89. Perot’s life was more than just being a two-time non-major-party presidential candidate, but his campaigns changed the political landscape during his life and are influential to this day. …
Perot showed that a populist businessman outsider could garner a lot of support from the American public. Perot, like Donald Trump, attracted a lot of disaffected white non-college graduates. A lot of these types of voters would later jump to the Republican Party and power Trump’s presidential victory in 2016.
And let’s not forget that Perot leveraged free television — “Larry King Live,” specifically — in a way that Trump became infamous for. CONT.
Harry Enten, CNN