Voters at the party convention have chosen Chase Oliver over former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead their 2024 race to the White House.
Political activist Chase Oliver has won the Libertarian Party presidential nomination over former President Donald Trump and independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after multiple rounds of voting at the party’s convention.
Mr. Oliver also called for the nomination of his running mate, Mike ter Maat.
“But the work is not done, please help me nominate my running mate @terMaatMike,” he said.
The 38-year-old activist of Atlanta previously ran for a Senate seat in Georgia in 2022, receiving 2 percent of the vote, which led to a runoff that Republican Herschel Walker lost to Democrat Raphael Warnock.
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Mr. Oliver, also known as the first openly gay Senate candidate in Georgia, ran for Congress in Georgia’s Fifth Congressional District in 2020, where he earned 2 percent of the vote.
President Trump, who spoke at the party’s convention on May 25, said he didn’t submit the necessary paperwork for the party’s nomination.
The former president said he would have “absolutely” secured the Libertarian Party’s nomination if he hadn’t already become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
“Regardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes.”
Mr. Kennedy, who received support from some libertarian delegates but failed to garner enough votes to continue, said speaking at the party’s convention on May 24 was “a high point” of his campaign.
“Together we will break the stranglehold of the Uniparty; end the forever wars; pardon Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, and Ross Ulbricht; dismantle wasteful and abusive bureaucracies, and restore the authority of the Bill of Rights.”
Mr. Kennedy said he would have accepted the Libertarian Party presidential nomination if it had been offered. He left the Democratic Party last year to run for president as an independent.
“What an unexpected honor to wake up this morning to a groundswell in the Libertarian Party seeking to nominate me. I would have accepted the nomination if offered because independents and third parties need to unite right now to reclaim our country from the corrupt two-party system,” he said.
Mr. Kennedy chose to run as an independent after facing multiple roadblocks from the Democratic National Committee and claiming that the organization was “rigging the primary” to favor President Joe Biden and prevent other candidates from competing.
Jeff Louderback and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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