Starbucks' Schultz: "I am seriously thinking of running for president"
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"I am not ... in bed with a party," says former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is considering running for president as a "centrist independent."
I am seriously thinking of running for president. I will run as a centrist independent
outside of the two-party system. We're living at a most fragile time. Not only the fact that
this president is not qualified to be the president, but the fact that both parties
are consistently not doing what's necessary on behalf of the American people and are engaged
every single day in revenge politics. Why run as an independent? Your views have always aligned
with the Democratic Party. It's true. You know, I've been a lifelong Democrat. I look at both
parties. We see extremes on both sides. Well, we are sitting today with approximately twenty
one and a half trillion dollars of debt, which is a reckless example not only of Republicans,
but of Democrats as well, as a reckless failure of their constitutional responsibility.
Do you worry that you're going to siphon votes away from the Democrats and thereby
ensure that President Trump has a second term? I want to see the American people win. I want
to see America win. I don't care if you're Democrat, independent, libertarian, Republican.
Bring me your ideas and I will be an independent person
who will embrace those ideas because I am not in any way in bed with a party.

