Former Massachusetts Gov. and Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee Bill Weld vowed his party’s candidate — former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson — would be included in the upcoming presidential debates as part of a plan to upend the two-party presidential race.

“Once we get announced we are in the debate, we are going to have saturation media coverage from that day until Nov. 8,” Weld told Herald Radio this morning. “So on Nov. 8 Gary Johnson is going to have 100 percent name recognition.”

Weld, a former Republican Bay State Gov. from 1991-1997, added the debate commission should put Johnson in the debates against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, “even if we get stuck at 13 or 14 (percent).”

Weld, 71, said he and Johnson would be circulating a letter to federal lawmakers asking them to lobby to include the Libertarian Party in the fall debates. The Johnson-Weld ticket earned 10 percent of a four-way survey in a Quinnipiac poll released yesterday.

“I don't think you get all the way by barnstorming,” Weld said. “I think you have to be in the debates and making your case at showtime but I think the commission will do that … they have to be nonpartisan or lose their tax exempt status.”

In the wide-ranging interview, Weld said he was in line with the Libertarian platform plank about eliminating marijuana from the list of schedule-one narcotics. He said he is in favor of passing Question 4 on this fall’s Massachusetts ballot, which would legalize marijuana in the state.

Weld also said Gov. Charlie Baker, who lists Weld as one of his mentors, is making the right decision by staying out of the presidential campaign.

“I think he is smart to do so because as soon as he sticks a finger in there, he will get 100 questions from the press every day about ‘what do you think about this federal issue’ or ‘what do you think of this that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton said the other day,’ " he said. “I think his hands off stance is just the right thing for him to do.”

Johnson and Weld have been touring New England this week, holding rallies in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine before hosting a rally tomorrow at 1 p.m. on the Boston Common.

“It’s a great week for me,” Weld said. “Home again.”