Chuck Todd: Without A Third-Party Candidate, 'I Don't Know How' Trump Recreates 2016 Win

President Donald Trump delivers a statement on the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington.

Hannah Uebele is a producer for Under the Radar with Callie Crossley and previously worked as associate producer for Boston Public Radio. She graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in English and Environmental Studies. She's a proud Delawarean but has found herself saying "wicked" more and more often, so the Bostonian metamorphosis is well underway.Contact: hannah_uebele@wgbh.org

November 08, 2019

Updated August 07, 2023

Chuck Todd, host of "Meet the Press Daily" on MSNBC, spoke with Boston Public Radio Thursday about President Trump's campaign strategy for the 2020 election.

"The fact is, Trump is still trying to run the same race he ran four years ago," Todd said. "Four years later, there's no evidence that his base has gotten bigger, and his vote share has gotten slightly smaller, so I don't know how he recreates what he did in 2016 without a third-party candidate."

Having a third-party candidate enter the race is one of the only real chances Trump has of cracking the electoral college, Todd added.

"Until a semi-serious third-party candidate that can get 3 or 4 percent shows up, I don't know if whatever it is Trump thinks that he can pull off in the electoral college is as doable as people fear that it is."