Johnson and Weld, the former GOP governors of New Mexico and MA respectively, won the Libertarian nods for president and vice president during a raucous convention in Orlando on Sunday. Libertarians also allow their party to choose the vice presidential nominee, and Johnson’s chosen running mate – Weld – is not a party favorite, as many question whether he’s really a Libertarian.
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Libertarian presidential hopeful former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is a few steps closer to having a competitive campaign.
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The Libertarian Party of Arkansas has a candidate running in every congressional office (Democrats are challenging just two seats) along with a handful of state legislature and justice of the peace races.
“I think that they’ve already started coming”, Johnson said. That definition should be left to religions and individuals – not government. Johnson was the party’s nominee in 2012 as well.
The Libertarian Party has drawn more attention this year as many voters seek alternatives to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the likely nominees for the Democratic and Republican parties.
Ross Perot, a technology corporation executive, was the most recent serious third party presidential candidate in the US, winning 19 and 8 percent of the national vote, but no individual states, in the 1992 and 1996 elections, when Clinton’s husband, Bill Clinton, was twice elected as president. It was not immediately apparent what attacks the announcer was referring to, but in a statement to the New York Times about Weld, Trump said, “I don’t talk about his alcoholism”.
On Sunday in Florida, delegates to the party’s convention picked Johnson over several other candidates.
“I am fiscally conservative in spades and I am socially liberal in spades”, Johnson told The Associated Press. The party’s best showing was 1980, when candidate Ed Clark got slightly more than 1 percent of the vote.
Governors didn’t fare too well in the Republican and Democratic presidential primaries this year. They’re like, ‘Hillary Clinton?
According to FiveThirtyEight.com, a poll put Johnson at 10 percent against Trump and Clinton.
On Sunday, the Libertarian party in the United States nominated Gary Johnson as the Presidential candidate for the upcoming elections to be held in the fall of 2016.
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Libertarian National Committee chair Nicholas Sarwark spoke to press following the nomination process, discussing the Libertarian Party’s outreach and fundraising efforts.
