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Article: Perot Plans to Form Third Party in Presidential Race
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 26, 1995
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Ross Perot announced plans last night to form a third political
party that will run a candidate against President Clinton and the
Republican presidential nominee in 1996.
Perot, who as an independent candidate won 19 percent of the
presidential vote in 1992, did not preclude himself from running for
the nomination of the Independence Party.
He predicted that the new party would soon replace either the
Democratic or Republican party. "One of those two parties is going to
disappear, one of those special interest parties is going to melt
down."
Appearing on CNN's "Larry King Live" show, he said, "Tonight we
are going to start the process of creating a party for the
independent voter. . . . It ...