Evan McMullin said Gary Johnson is not a serious candidate. | Getty McMullin disses Gary Johnson as 'not a serious candidate'

Independent candidate Evan McMullin took a shot Friday at his fellow outsider presidential contender, saying he doesn't believe Gary Johnson is “a serious candidate.”

“He has no knowledge of foreign policy. He spends his time advocating for legalized prostitution and for a drug culture here in America, rather than dealing with problems that are really big, like our economy and national security and government reform,” he said while appearing on CNN on Friday afternoon. “Gary Johnson just is not a serious candidate. What we really need to be talking about is Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump."


McMullin’s comments come in the wake of Johnson’s gaffe this week about Aleppo, the Syrian city currently devastated by civil war. Johnson was asked on MSNBC: “What would you do if you were elected about Aleppo?” Johnson responded by asking, “And what is Aleppo?”

Johnson’s campaign later said he had "blanked," and Johnson himself said he should’ve been able to identify Aleppo during the interview.

"As Governor, there were many things I didn't know off the top of my head. But I succeeded by surrounding myself with the right people, getting to the bottom of important issues, and making principled decisions. It worked," Johnson said in a statement.

McMullin, an anti-Trump conservative, has embarked on a campaign that requires him to obtain signatures for individual state ballots very late in the race. He will appear on the ballot in Minnesota, Colorado, South Carolina, Louisiana, Utah, Arkansas, Idaho, Virginia, and Iowa. He has failed, however, to get on the ballot in bigger states like California.

Johnson, however, as the nominee of the Libertarian Party, will appear on the ballot in all 50 states.