It breaks up the status quo and it will certainly fracture the Republican vote and give a Democratic candidate an opportunity like there hasn't existed in a long time.

My intentions are to be the Republican candidate.

The status quo sucks.

. . . a businessman's candidate, hovering around the status quo like a sick kitten around a hot brick.

The status quo is simply unacceptable.

The entrenched interests want to protect the status quo, and the apologists for those interests want to say they can't have effective energy and clean air at the same time,