“Don’t be so sure the two-party political system continues long term,” Sen. Ben Sasse said. Ben Sasse might support Gary Johnson

Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, who has declined to mount an independent challenge to Donald Trump’s candidacy, won’t be voting for Trump or Hillary Clinton in November. He is, however, considering throwing Gary Johnson his vote.

The first-term Republican told the Lincoln Journal-Star this weekend, “The Libertarian Party is something I would certainly consider in the long term” but added that he “hadn’t really looked closely at it yet.”


Johnson secured the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination last weekend in Florida. The former Republican governor of New Mexico will be running with William Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts.

Sasse, who was among the first in elected office to denounce Trump, said the presumptive nominees of both party “are not doing a very good job of explaining what they are for.”

“Don’t be so sure the two-party political system continues long term,” he said.