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Apr 14 2024
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RFK Jr.: Won't Run as Libertarian
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he has ruled out running as a Libertarian candidate, shifting his focus to securing ballot access in all 50 states. "We're not gonna have any problems getting on the ballot ourselves, so we won't be running Libertarian," he said in an interview with ABC News. Speaking from West Des Moines, Iowa, Kennedy celebrated a successful
Newsmax (News)Apr 19 2024
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How Libertarians plan to ‘throw a wrench’ into the 2024 presidential election
From left, Libertarian presidential candidates Dr. Charles Ballay, Lars Mapstead and Mike ter Maat smile for a photo after a debate at the state Libertarian Party convention at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Salt Lake City on Friday, April 19, 2024. The group of three dozen voters gathered in Salt Lake City in the Hilton DoubleTree ballroom have a plan to alter the course of American politics.
Deseret NewsApr 13 2024
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David Boaz on libertarianism, Ronald Reagan, and the 2024 election
Few individuals have had a bigger impact on the libertarian movement than David Boaz, the longtime executive vice president of the Cato Institute, D.C.'s most prominent think tank. For decades, virtually every idea and policy utterance that Cato published crossed his desk at some point, where it was scanned not just for grammar and punctuation but for coherence, persuasiveness, and ideological
ReasonApr 02 2024
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Why libertarians don’t trust RFK Jr
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Nicole Shanahan, a 38-year-old attorney and philanthropist, as his running mate last week. Outside of Silicon Valley, Shanahan is a relative political unknown, though as the ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, she brings considerable financial assets to the ticket.
Reaction to the pick has been mixed, however —
UnHerdApr 06 2024
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Voters question signatures on petitions for Arizona Libertarian congressional candidate
Several voters allege that forgeries of their signatures were included on the paperwork that Michelle Martin, a Libertarian candidate running for Congress in Arizona, submitted to qualify for the ballot in this year’s elections. To appear on the ballot in Arizona, candidates need to gather a certain number of signatures from registered voters in support of their candidacy. Martin filed to run
AZ CentralApr 08 2024
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Arizona voters question petition for Libertarian candidate: ‘Not even close to my signature’
Multiple Arizona voters say their signatures were forged in Libertarian Michelle Martin’s paperwork to run in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District. Four people told the Arizona Republic that they had not signed the petition that their signatures were on. In order to appear on the ballot in Arizona, candidates must gain a number of signatures proportional to the number of registered voters in
Washington ExaminerMar 22 2024
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Libertarian Hazlitt Coalition Trains State Legislators to Target Public Schools
The national libertarian youth activism organization, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), has assembled a network of extreme conservative state legislators as part of its Hazlitt Coalition. Pulling its members from legislatures across the country, the Hazlitt Coalition’s Colorado delegation includes Reps. Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs), Ken DeGraaf (R-Colorado Springs), Brandi Bradley (R-
Colorado Times RecorderMar 05 2024
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RFK Jr. sparks speculation of switch to Libertarian Party for greater ballot access
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing the possibility of joining the Libertarian Party amid difficulties in securing ballot access ahead of November.
Kennedy left the Democratic Party in his long-shot bid against President Joe Biden in October to become an independent candidate. But getting on state ballots is an expensive challenge for independent
Washington ExaminerJan 14 2024
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Donald Trump Secures Massive Endorsement from Libertarian GOP Senator Mike Lee
Former President Donald Trump received an endorsement from an influential senator just days before his first primary challenge in Iowa. On Friday, Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah announced his endorsement of Trump’s White House bid during an appearance on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” The firebrand Utah senator told host Laura Ingraham that the American people have a chance to choose
Western JournalDec 11 2023
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Argentina's newly elected president, Libertarian Javier Milei, sworn into office
Argentina’s newly elected president, Javier Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist whose sensational rhetoric drew comparisons to former U.S. President Donald Trump, was sworn into office on Sunday
During his inaugural address, Milei reportedly spoke about the nation’s economic emergency and sought to prepare the public for a major adjustment to public spending cuts.
"We don’
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