while he was publicly saying shit like this...https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1009325255142207488...and he was denying he was working on any campaign like this...https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/01/schmidts-break-from-the-gop-the-talk-of-dc-753107....somehow we magically end up with an 'indie' candidate that bashes democrats using conservative think tank verbalism. schultz didnt pull that out of nowhere.