Jon Huntsman 2016 starts now?

USA Today is reporting that fear of Donald J. Trump winning the GOP nomination has failed 2012 GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman contemplating a third-party run as a failed 2016 presidential candidate:

https://twitter.com/willrahn/status/679001414136291328

Does anyone really think this is a good ide?

Huntsman told the paper that “he’s getting ‘a lot’ of encouragement to launch another White House bid from Republicans concerned about the prospect of Donald Trump as the 2016 GOP nominee.”

Please.
Don't.https://t.co/uttHZIIDUT pic.twitter.com/QwlQJ9JVlJ

— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair ? (@senatorshoshana) December 22, 2015

Yeah, right:

Huntsman: The answer to a question nobody asked.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) December 22, 2015

Jon Huntsman getting a lot of encouragement to jump in 2016 race.*

*Stop laughing.https://t.co/RFQybn18JY

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) December 22, 2015

But I can't! LOL #tcot https://t.co/CXaLfsmBL0

— Liberty Bell (@libertybell1776) December 22, 2015

Neither can we.

Huntsman’s daughter Abby, now with Fox News, told BuzzFeed last year that that there’s “a lot of pull out there for him to do something as an independent”:

https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/679000925139111936

We shall see.

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