perot is most well known for his fwo party bids for the press danes in 1992 and 1996. wolf blitzer takes a look back at perot s life. ross perot was already a mega successful businessman when he leapt into the american consciousness as an independent presidential candidate in 1992. his folksy manner i was down in texas tending to business and taking care of my family. this situation got so bad i decided i need to get into it. and his laser like focus on the economy. we have not to stop sending jobs overseas. it made him one of the most successful independent candidates in u.s. history. he won almost 19% of the vote in 1992. from the beginning, perot s campaign struck accord with those seeking a third-party candidate. he threw his hat into the ring on cnn s larry king live. number one, i will not run as democrat or republican because i will not sell out to anybody but to the american people. and i will sell out to them.
eds, enormously successful company. his son also learned a lot from his dad. also enormously successful. really, i just think it s appears an eye con. he gives us a glims that with an independent candidacy, talked the right way, connected the right away could have a huge impact and maybe it is a foreshadowing of what an independent success will look like at the presidential level. that s my take-away from ross. he was great. that s a really interesting take. i always appreciate your commentary. i liked him. you know, he was very, very personable and tough as nails. tough as nails. and i remember talking to him. i called him one time and i wand him to help me do something politically, he s like i m done with that. i m not doing a good imitation, but he didn t want to get involved anymore. but i just really liked him. and then i had the pleasure to meet his son and his grandson
and also, trump has said that he s not following this epstein matter, but i don t think that is actually true, because epstein is a person that trump has known for years and years before that deal with acosta, trump told new york magazine, oe, yeah, epstein likes beautiful women, he and i share that in common, and epstein prefers them on the younger side. so for trump to say i don t know him, that kind of reminds me of similar things that he said about steve bannon saying that he barely knew him and other people he throws under the bus. and so it s hard to square that circle in terms of this is a person who is in trump s new york social circle set. let s see what happens in the next 72 hours. daniel, thanks so much for your reporting. thank you. also some breaking news coming in. billionaire businessman and predenchl candidate ross per row has died at the age of 89.
that looks exactly like him. [ loud crash ] yeah. he ll figure it out. only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty a book that you re ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! just as one democratic presidential candidate drops out of the race, another candidate is now just jumping in. this morning billionaire tom steyer has officially added his name to the field of democrats running for president. he s given millions of dollars to liberal causes over the years, even spending $100 million during the 2018 midterms. most recently he s known for bank rolling a campaign to try to get president trump impeached. with his announcement, there are once again 4 cants looking to
sources are never wrong, they say there will not be a ron paul. they will not jump ship from the republican party. my sources tell me they know who will and i am not going to tell you who it is. it rhymes with ross per row. i am voting for you, ross. ross perot altered history. he took votes from bush. bush lost and clinton came in. have you monica lieu lewinski. perot changed it. remember the prosperity. dam you, perot. it is going to get to a point where people don t care about that . s they see the republican and democrat as no difference. if it takes a vote away people say, who cares? and the republican party goes the way of the wigs. a third party tea party group can replace the tea party. they are hungry for two choices. if it is two choices and two real choices, the fact is