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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz recently announced that he was considering an Independent presidential run. By and large, the reaction has not been positive. Democrats, for one, are worried. The New York Times summarizes:

The possibility of Mr. Schultz’s candidacy as an independent has drawn condemnation from Democrats, who said that an independent run would split the vote on Election Day 2020 and hand Mr. Trump a second term.

Even Republicans think it’s a bad idea:

“I think it would be terrible for the Democratic candidate to have a left-of-center, self-funding candidate running to siphon off voters,” said David Kochel, a Republican consultant who worked on the presidential campaigns of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and former Florida governor Jeb Bush in Iowa. “I just think it would be a disaster for Democrats.”

 

The Daily Beast took Twitter’s temperature. The social media site is not positive on Schultz 2020.

Splinter News ran an article simply titled “Fuck No.”

But is he all bad? USA Today points out he has been highly successful in the past.

He took over Starbucks when it sold only coffee beans, not cups – it had 11 stores and fewer than 100 employees at the time – and grew it into a global behemoth that now has close to 30,000 stores in 78 countries. Along the way he adopted an ethos of corporate responsibility, making Starbucks one of the earliest U.S. companies to offer stock options and health insurance even to part-time employees, and more recently partnering with Arizona State University to cover tuition for workers who want to earn their bachelor’s degree online.