Chuck Todd: There'll be a third-party challenge if Perry's the nominee

“If Perry’s the nominee,” Todd told Kornheiser, “I think there’s going to be be a serious effort of some sort of moderate Republican linking up with a conservative Democrat of trying to run in some sort of like, ‘let’s throw all the bums out — let’s crash the party,’ you know, a la [Ross] Perot …”

“I just continue to believe that’s what’s coming,” he said.