“Trump said he would stay in the party, and refuse to run as an independent, as long as the Republicans treated him fairly. I’m beginning to have a sense of what he was talking about. If the party won’t allow me to run as a Democrat, that creates a lot of pressure to think about a different way of running that would allow me to make this case to the American people.”
— Lawrence Lessig, quoted by the Washington Post, suggesting he could run as an independent if not included in the Democratic debates.
