Ross Perot’s Remarkable Legacy

Major Garrett: “I covered Perot’s first bid for the presidency in 1992. It was the first presidential campaign I covered. And what I saw was this: Perot unleashed one of the most impressive grassroots movement in modern American politics. He didn’t win the presidency, but that’s really beside the point. And whether he took a higher percentage of votes from Clinton or Bush is, in the grand scheme of things, similarly irrelevant.”

“What does matter is that Perot, against odds almost unfathomable now, qualified on ballots in all 50 states as an independent candidate.”

“It wasn’t Perot who did this. Volunteers did. They did so without a party and without a declared candidate.”