Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld , the vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party , which has former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson at the top of the ticket, appears now to be less interested in winning the White House and more interested in seeing Donald Trump lose.

Weld told the Boston Globe on Tuesday that he “plans to focus exclusively on blasting” the Republican presidential nominee “over the next five weeks” and hoped the party would “come up with a new playbook” after the elections. Weld did stop short of endorsing Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton .

Update: By Wednesday afternoon, Weld clarified his commitment to the Libertarian Party ticket with Johnson. In a Facebook post, Weld said: “Let there be no doubt. I am the Libertarian nominee for Vice-President, proudly running with Gov. Gary Johnson, and both Gary and I will be running hard and making our case right up until the polls close on November 8.”

The newspaper cited Johnson’s recent media gaffes as having hurt the third-party ticket, which was already floundering in public opinion polls and had failed to reach the threshold necessary to appear in either of the first two debates. First, Johnson had his famous “Aleppo moment” in which he failed to recognize the war-torn Syrian city at the center of a humanitarian crisis and then he failed to name a single world leader that he respected.

Neither Johnson nor Weld were able to gain a minimum of 15 percent margin in the polls to qualify for the debates. But that didn’t stop Weld from weighing in on the vice presidential debate between Democratic nominee Tim Kaine and Republican nominee Mike Pence on Tuesday.

Weld also live-tweeted during the debate to offer reactions on topics like jobs, social security, immigration and other sniping done between Pence and Kaine.

https://twitter.com/GovBillWeld/status/783479898199457792

https://twitter.com/GovBillWeld/status/783496699272654848

Weld served as a Republican governor of Massachusetts in the 1990s and this year he endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich during the primaries in February. But Weld also praised Hillary Clinton on MSNBC last week when he said “I'm not sure anybody's more qualified than Hillary Clinton.”

Could the third-party vice presidential nominee endorse Clinton any time soon? Check back in here for updates as the story develops.

Email: luis.gomez@sduniontribune.com

Twitter: @RunGomez

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UPDATES:

3:00 p.m.: This post was updated with a statement from Bill Weld regarding the Boston Globe story.

This article was originally published at 11:00 a.m.