Todd Walters Sanders, ca1963 -
VP candidate for Independent (2016)
Running mate with nominee: Robert Partlow Morrow (b. 1964)
Popular vote: 145 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Robert Morrow's strange political journey began as a liberal Democrat supporting Dukakis in 1988 and somehow morphed into his becoming a conspiracy theorist Republican who co-authored a book with Nixon loyalist Roger Stone entitled The Clintons' War on Women (2015). When Morrow was elected as the Chair of the Travis County, Tex. Republican Party, based in Austin, there was an intra-party revolt. He served for a few months in 2016, at which point he ran for President as an Independent write-in. His running-mate was a fellow he called his "handyman," Todd Sanders.
Morrow was a self-styled expert on the JFK assassination, placing the blame on LBJ and other government figures. He also seemed obsessed with the sex lives of political figures, notably the Clintons, Rick Perry, George H.W. Bush, and Donald Trump. In a humorous way, Morrow was very much like the last named gentleman in terms of promoting spurious facts and unfounded conspiracies. Both men also were infamous for disrespecting women in blatant ways and they used the negative campaigning tactic of dehumanizing all who failed to see the issues from their perspective. And since Morrow's publicity gimmick was wearing his three-corner jester hat, that sort of compares to Trump's overdone orange cosmetics, oddball hairstyle, and clownishly oversize necktie. From the viewpoint of an outsider in some ways it is difficult to see why the Travis County Republicans would reject the former person but embrace the latter-- a point Morrow himself would make in 2016.
Morrow's social media was riddled with pornographic language and visuals, and that might have been what turned the dial to 11 where Trump was still at 10.
Early in the campaign season Morrow endorsed Ted Cruz, "Ted Cruz and Ben Carson over Donald Trump. Donald Trump has actually said that a lone nut Oswald killed JFK, which tells me he is too stupid to be president." However, in early May 2016 Trump alleged, without evidence or detail as he usually did with his many conspiracy theories, that Sen. Cruz's father was somehow implicated in assisting Lee Oswald in Nov. 1963.
Part of Morrow's electioneering included showing up at public events wearing his jester hat and holding a huge sign that read, TRUMP is a CHILD RAPIST. Morrow explained, "Donald Trump's psychopathy has been on full display on the national political stage for over a year ... I want folks to know that Trump is a child rapist and that he is currently being sued in a civil action in NY federal courts for raping, slapping [a] 13 year old girl at a Jeffrey Epstein party in 1994."
I am able to pick out a few Facebook posts from the campaign that are suitable for quoting in mixed company--
Aug. 24, 2016
Can you imagine *Trump supporters* telling ME that I am a disgrace to the Republican party?
Sept. 25, 2016
Morrow/Sanders 2016!! Pro-liberty, anti-war, anti-death penalty, pro boobyliciousness, pro legalize marijuana!!
Sept. 27, 2016
I am calling on my FB friends to kick megalomaniac loser Donald Trump non stop until the election. Child molester, abuses women, pathological liar in the extreme, cheats people, a full on criminal. Donald Trump's campaign must be destroyed. We will deal with Hillary later. If Texan, vote for libertarian political truth teller Robert Morrow. I will be on the ballot as an official write-in candidate!!
Oct. 10, 2016
I have a family member who is planning to vote for Trump in hopes that he will be assassinated so Pence can take over. "There are a lot of crazy people out there" is how the thinking goes.
Oct. 10, 2016
No further proof needs to be supplied for me to acknowledge Mr. Trump as not a real man but instead a weak, spoiled, slimy scumbag, psychopath and sexual predator who doesn’t respect women but rather objectifies them every chance he gets.
Put aside the argument that Mr. Trump, a buffoonish brute who has appeared in at least two soft-core porn videos, isn’t fit to be president and instead acknowledge that he’s not a good fit for American society. Mr. Trump is, as General Colin Powell put it, a national disgrace.
Oct. 18, 2016
Here is how the presidential race is looking now: Angry Bull Dyke 368, Orange Hitler 170.
Nov. 4, 2016
Donald Trump reminds me a lot of Adolph Hiter, the pathological lying, abuse of people, mental instability.
Nov. 4, 2016
Hillary Clinton is the LESSOR EVIL when compared to psychopathic, fascist child molester Donald Trump. He is also an incompentent loser who can't beat a half-dead criminal target of an FBI investigation.
Nov. 8, 2016
We are putting a fascist psychopathic child molester into the White House tonight. Thanks Crooked Hillary!! You totally suck.
The Morrow/Sanders ticket were registered as write-ins in Texas only. If they had won the national election the fact they were residents of the same state had the potential to be problematic per the Constitution. Morrow ran again in 2020 as a write-in with Anne Beckett as his VP.
Election history: none
Other occupations: handyman
Notes:
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