Gary Johnson: Will the Libertarians benefit from Trump fears?

• 8 April 2016
• From the section US Election 2016
• http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35981872

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Gary Johnson says his Libertarian party is a natural home for conservatives disaffected by Trump Libertarian Gary Johnson believes this could be the year his party, a perennial non-contender in US presidential elections, shakes up the campaign in a way it has failed to accomplish in past cycles. Andrew Desiderio reports on his chances.
Republicans and Democrats. Democrats and Republicans. Thus it has been, thus it will always be. Or could 2016 - a year of eye-popping firsts in presidential politics - be different? Could it be the moment the Libertarian Party steps into the spotlight?
Mr Johnson, the former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico who appears poised to once again be the Libertarian standard-bearer, certainly thinks so. He views his party as the natural home for Republicans recoiling from the prospect of Donald Trump as their nominee.
"If they're honest with themselves and they really are about smaller government, then I'm it," Mr Johnson said in a recent interview with the BBC in Washington.http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-35981872