The Texas woman who is blowing up the GOP

[TexasTowelie]

Mindy Finn, independent candidate for vice president, is from Kingwood.

WASHINGTON — Not so long ago, a legion of Texans were in contention to wind up on a presidential ticket this fall. None made it. And then, out of nowhere a few weeks ago, a woman with Texas roots burst onto the national scene as an independent candidate for vice president.

Her name is Mindy Finn, and she is a native of Kingwood, Texas. Up until her launch as a candidate only a month ago, she was a nationally unknown political consultant in Washington.

But amid the chaos and disgust of the 2016 presidential campaign, there is a real chance she could be the first non-major party vice presidential candidate in a generation to win electoral votes come next Tuesday.

On Oct. 6, she joined the presidential ticket of a fellow Republican, Evan McMullin, a renegade who left the party as part of the "Never Trump" movement.

Read more: https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/04/texas-woman-who-blowing-gop/

Cross-posted in the Texas Group.

[Lifelong Protester]

1. This election is getting stranger and stranger.

[Garrett78]

2. The title is misleading. Blowing up Utah, perhaps.

As Utah is the only place where McMullin-Finn has any chance at all of winning electoral votes.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Not necessarily.

Trump definitely cannot afford to lose any red state if he intends to reach 270 electoral votes. If McMullin were to win Utah it could mean that neither candidate gets to 270 so that would blow up a possible (though not likely) GOP win.

[Garrett78]

4. Utah or no Utah, Trump isn't getting to 270 (or 269).

But McMullin winning Utah would add to Trump's embarrassment.