Introducing Gary Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, and the man who could become the biggest spoiler in the 2016 presidential race. Betting that the country will be split between two unpalatable choices, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Johnson believes that now is the time for libertarians to make their presence known on the national stage. He may not have a hope of winning, but he’s picked as good a time as any to present his case.

“The Libertarian party has a unique opportunity here to take the position of the wide swath middle between arguably the two most polarizing figures in American politics who have ever run for president,” Johnson says in the eighth episode of NomiNation. The third-party candidate might be right, too: in a three-way match between him, Trump, and Clinton, Johnson has received up to 10 points in the polls—a significant enough chunk to keep Clinton up at night.

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The latest installment of NomiNation visits the Libertarian National Convention, where Johnson was officially nominated on May 29 by a landslide. Compared to the high-budget, tightly scripted pageantry of the Democratic and Republican events, the Libertarian convention is an amateurish affair: the nomination takes place in a nondescript hotel conference room in Orlando; the delegate votes are tallied on an Excel spreadsheet projected onto a screen; and perennial joke candidate Vermin Supreme is selling toasters in the hallways. Johnson stands out amid the shoestring sideshow for his insistence that libertarianism should go mainstream and allow the government some involvement in regulating Americans’ lives, a policy that his principle-loving opponents, who believe the government shouldn’t even regulate drivers’ licenses, wholeheartedly disagree with. Hey, one step at a time.