This is exciting. After months of hand-wringing by a certain segment of Republicans over the rise of Donald Trump, the #NeverTrump crowd finally have their candidate.
Key players in GOP’s anti-Trump movement are preparing to launch an independent presidential campaign for Evan McMullin — a CIA veteran and the chief policy director of the House Republican conference — sources close to the effort told BuzzFeed News. [...]
He would make for an unlikely presidential candidate. He has never held elective office before and has spent most of his career as a CIA officer, according to his LinkedIn page. Young and unmarried, McMullin received an MBA at Wharton in 2011, and after a stint at Goldman Sachs, went to work as a policy wonk on Capitol Hill.
And now for the understatement-of-the-century portion of the show:
Apart from his low profile, his candidacy will face other substantial hurdles in gaining traction — especially with ballot access and fundraising.
Attention, Republicans: Donald Trump is your candidate. Deal with it.