Gary Johnson's Record Doesn't Quite Match His Rhetoric

GARY JOHNSON

For the last two weeks, we've been running clips from our interview with Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson. He's spoken with eloquence about taxes, health care and drug laws. In this clip, we ask him about his record as Governor of New Mexico for eight years and the seeming inconsistency between what he says he will do as President, and what he actually did as Governor. (Fact Check: In this clip, Johnson states several times that New Mexico is the youngest state in the country. That's not true. New Mexico is the ninth youngest state.)

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