Third-Party Candidate With GOP Backing, Money Joining Race
Evan McMullin was a “Mormon missionary in Amman, Jordan, for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.”
A newcomer to elective politics is jumping into the White House race.
Evan McMullin, chief Republican policy director of the House Republican conference
and an alumnus of the CIA, confirmed Monday he will launch a third-party presidential race later in the day.
“In a year where Americans have lost faith in the candidates of both major parties,
it’s time for a generation of new leadership to step up,” McMullin told ABC News.
“It’s never too late to do the right thing, and America deserves much better than either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton can offer us. I humbly offer myself as a leader who can give millions of disaffected Americans a conservative choice for President.”
An anti-Trump group, Better for America, has been working for several months to
put a third-party candidate on the ballot, but may face legal battles in states like Texas, where they could have to file suit to be included on the ballot.
According to ABC, McMullin was born in Provo, Utah, and holds a bachelor’s degree
in international law and diplomacy from Brigham Young University and a Master’s of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
He also was a Mormon missionary in Amman, Jordan, for the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees. He was in training at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, and after completing his training he volunteered to serve in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, where he worked with counterterrorism and intelligence operations in some of the most dangerous nations, Better for America reported.
After leaving the CIA in 2011, McMullin went to work at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, and two years later become a senior national security advisor for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, later becoming the chief policy director of the House Republican Conference.
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