Evan McMullin’s Twitter profile picture. (Twitter)
Independent candidate Evan McMullin was one of the third-party candidates who was left off the debate stage Monday for the first presidential debate.
However, like his counterparts Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, McMullin had a lot to say anyway. He said a lot of it on Twitter. At one point he accused Donald Trump of racism, and Hillary Clinton of socialism.
He didn’t think anyone on stage won, that was clear.
McMullin is a former CIA counter-terrorism officer who has previously written that he and other third party candidates deserved to be included in the debate, calling the system rigged. The Commission on Presidential Debates has said that only candidates who met a 15 percent polling threshold in five recent polls qualified for the debate.
That left the stage to Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The debate immediately ignited into fireworks, with a night dominated by a more aggressive Trump, whose sniffling and interrupting became talks of the night. You can watch the full debate video here.
Here are some of McMullin’s best tweets from the debate:
As he has before, McMullin had harsh words for Trump, accusing him of racism.
.@realDonaldTrump and his campaign have mainstreamed racism. That’s unacceptable. #EvanDebate #debatenight #Debates2016
Several of his posts revolved around this theme.
.@realDonaldTrump has no business talking about the African-American community, while embracing the white supremacist movement’s support.
He was upset about Trump and Russia.
Is @realDonaldTrump actually justifying and defending Russian hacking of Americans? #debatenight
But he’s not a fan of Hillary and those emails.
.@HillaryClinton talking about cyber security: ironic.
He wanted to protect the rights of Americans.
We cannot bring peace to our communities by taking away the rights of our citizens. #DebateNight
Generally, he thinks both candidates are awful.
We cannot bring peace to our communities by taking away the rights of our citizens. #DebateNight
He doesn’t think Trump will be good on the economy either.
.@realDonaldTrump‘s “idea about money” is borrow borrow borrow!
He had more negative things to say about Trump than Clinton, it seemed.
As a former counter-terrorism agent, he thinks he could best beat ISIS.
Fact check: @realDonaldTrump doesn’t have the slightest idea how to defeat ISIS. Guess who does? Me.
He thinks this election has very high stakes. He decided to provide a video message.
Sadly, the 2 candidates on stage tonight fail to live up to our country’s promise. I’ll be sharing my views of the debate here. #debatenight
For good measure, he accused Hillary Clinton of socialism.
Sounds like the same warmed over socialism we’ve heard from @HillaryClinton before.