Former Governors Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, Libertarian candidates for President and Vice President, started their university tour at UNR Friday night. More than three hundred people gathered on the lawn outside the Joe Crowley Student Union to hear them speak.

"So, has there every been a crazier election?" Johnson asked the crowd as he took the stage. "It's so crazy I could be the next president."

Johnson says he's confident about his party's chances if they're able to get the polling numbers they need to participate in the national debates.

"We do have enough to take the whole thing but it depends on being in the Presidential debates and that's 15 percent in the polls," Johnson said. "We have a lot of momentum and I don't think that momentum is going to stop at the moment. It's projected that more people are going to watch the first presidential debate than the Super Bowl so there's no way you win the Presidency if you're not in that game."

Johnson and Vice Presidential candidate Bill Weld are both former two-term governors; Johnson of New Mexico and Weld of Massachusetts.

"I'd like to think Gary and I both have open minds and the fact that we do have open minds was the secret to our success in putting through our policies without having them rolled back by majority Democrat legislatures," Weld told the crowd.

The two are starting a university tour and hope to reach a broad audience in the coming weeks. The goal is to reach the 15% polling numbers by the middle of the month.

"I think most people in this country are Libertarian; they just don't know it," Johnson said. "Speaking broadly, keep the government out of my pocket, keep government out of my bedroom and then, skeptically, my gosh are we going to be at war forever?"

He talked about cutting government spending, cutting taxes and getting rid of the IRS.

"In 2012 I had the best record when it came to job creation among all the Presidential candidates and I was asked what I did to create so many jobs," Johnson said. "My answer was not a thing. Government doesn't create jobs, the private sector does. What the government can do is really get out of the way and make equal opportunities available to all."

Johnson ended his remarks by thanking the crowd.

"This is so cool that we started this whole campus rally being here and that you have come out like this," Johnson said. "You have no idea how energizing this is; I cannot thank you all enough."

He answered questions from the audience for the next half hour on topics like public land management, benefits for veterans and the Black Lives Matter movement. His next stop is Salt Lake City.