{"id":2253700,"date":"2024-05-27T10:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T14:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libertarian-party-rejects-rfk-jr-bid-for-nomination-rules-trump-ineligible\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T10:45:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T14:45:27","slug":"libertarian-party-rejects-rfk-jr-bid-for-nomination-rules-trump-ineligible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/libertarian-party-rejects-rfk-jr-bid-for-nomination-rules-trump-ineligible\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian Party Denies RFK Jr.&#8217;s Nomination Attempt, Deems Trump Disqualified"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flibertarian-party-rejects-rfk-jr-bid-for-nomination-rules-trump-ineligible%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2253700&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u2062Libertarian Party has ruled out Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidenflation-26-of-americans-say-economy-is-top-concern-highest-since-pandemic-struck\/\" title=\"Bidenflation: 26% of Americans Say Economy Is Top Concern, Highest Since Pandemic Struck\">potential nominees<\/a> for the 2024 presidential elections.\u2062 Despite Trump urging the party to rally behind him, and RFK Jr.&#8217;s attempt to secure \u200bthe nomination,\u200b Chase Oliver, former Georgia Senate candidate, was chosen. Both Trump and Kennedy, having been met with disapproval, received minimal votes during the first round. Kennedy, \u2063having \u2064left the\u200b Democratic primary for an independent run, was eliminated immediately after securing only 2% \u200dof the vote.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Libertarians voted on Sunday against selecting independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-pressure-strengthened-desantis-decision-to-ban-biological-males-from-womens-sports-spox-says\/\" title=\"\u2018Woke\u2019 Pressure \u2018Strengthened\u2019 DeSantis Decision To Ban Biological Males From Women\u2019s Sports, Spox Says\">2024 presidential nominee<\/a> for the Libertarian Party, and ruled former President Donald Trump ineligible.<\/p>\n<p>Despite urging from Trump for Libertarians to rally behind him, and RFK Jr.\u2019s bid to be selected as the party\u2019s nominee, Libertarians selected Chase Oliver, a former Georgia Senate hopeful whose candidacy helped push the contentious 2022 Georgia Senate election to a runoff, POLITICO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/26\/libertarians-reject-trump-rfk-chase-oliver-presidential-nominee-00160040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The Libertarian Party vote came after Trump spoke at the party\u2019s convention on Saturday, asking Libertarians to support his bid for a second term in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The presumptive Republican nominee was booed when he told those at the Libertarian Party convention to \u201ccombine\u201d with his campaign. He also pledged to place a Libertarian in his cabinet and senior posts. Trump received just six write-in votes in the first round of voting, and the Libertarian Party chair said the former president was ineligible to be the party\u2019s nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot give Crooked Joe Biden four more years,\u201d Trump said, adding that the party should join forces with his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly do that if you want to win. If you want to lose, don\u2019t do that. Keep getting your three percent every four years,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump just bodied the nerds booing him at the libertarian convention lmao<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe you don\u2019t want to win \u2026 keep getting your 3 percent every four years\u201d<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/16J6GsMQRd\">pic.twitter.com\/16J6GsMQRd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_johnnymaga\/status\/1794533877308158444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 26, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112509356997089896\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted<\/a> on Truth Social on Sunday afternoon that even if he were selected as the Libertarian Party\u2019s nominee, he couldn\u2019t accept it since he is set to be nominated by the Republican Party in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless, I believe I will get a Majority of the Libertarian Votes,\u201d he added. \u201c\u2018Junior\u2019 Kennedy is a Radical Left Democrat, who\u2019s destroyed everything he\u2019s touched, especially in New York and New England, and in particular, as it relates to the Cost and Practicality of Energy. He\u2019s not a Libertarian. Only a FOOL would vote for him!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, who dropped out of the Democratic primary to run as an independent, also spoke at the Libertarian Party convention and was on the ballot for the nomination. He was eliminated in the first round of voting on Sunday after receiving just 2% of the vote from the delegates, The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4687237-rfk-jr-eliminated-in-first-round-of-libertarian-partys-presidential-nomination-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-pennsylvania-could-be-ground-zero-for-a-novel-biden-and-trump-presidential-tie\/\" title=\"Why Pennsylvania May Become the Epicenter of a Potential Biden and Trump Tie in the Presidential Election\">independent candidate\u2019<\/a>s loss at the Libertarian Party convention comes as he seeks to gain access to ballots across the country before the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver won the nomination after seven rounds of voting, clearing the required 50% threshold over his final opponent being \u201cnone of the above,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/libertarians-select-chase-oliver-presidential-nominee-little-support-shown-trump-rfk-jr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Past social media posts from Oliver <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?lang=en&#038;q=trans%20kids%20(from%3AChaseForLiberty)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show<\/a> that he opposes Republican legislation that stops boys from competing in girls\u2019 sports. Oliver has also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=open%20border%20(from%3AChaseForLiberty)&#038;src=typed_query&#038;f=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that he supports an \u201copen border\u201d and has called to \u201cabolish ICE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Libertarian nominee won 2% of the vote in the 2022 Georgia Senate election between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican candidate Herschel Walker, which pushed the election to a runoff that Warnock ultimately won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will continue to bring a hopeful and positive message of liberty to both those who consider themselves libertarian and those who don\u2019t know they are libertarian yet,\u201d Oliver said in his Sunday victory speech.<\/p>\n<p>Libertarian candidates usually receive around 1% of the vote in presidential elections. Gary Johnson received an unusually high number of votes in 2016 when he took 3% of the national vote.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite encouragement from Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s nomination attempt, the Libertarian Party chose neither as their 2024 presidential candidate. On Sunday, the party ruled Trump ineligible and rejected Kennedy\u2019s bid. Instead, they opted for Chase Oliver, former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2253701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Libertarian-Convention-e1716814399128.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Libertarian-Convention-e1716814399128.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}