{"id":2364060,"date":"2024-11-04T20:18:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T01:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-libertarian-presidential-candidate-could-be-a-spoiler-for-trump-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T20:19:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T01:19:36","slug":"how-the-libertarian-presidential-candidate-could-be-a-spoiler-for-trump-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-libertarian-presidential-candidate-could-be-a-spoiler-for-trump-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Libertarian presidential candidate could be a spoiler for Trump &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fhow-the-libertarian-presidential-candidate-could-be-a-spoiler-for-trump-washington-examiner%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=2364060&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>In\u200b the\u2064 context of \u2063the 2024 presidential election,\u200d the \u2063Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver is positioned as a potential\u2063 &#8220;spoiler&#8221; for \u2063both President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. \u200bEarlier this year, there were indications that \u200ba third-party candidate could substantially impact the election, \u200dparticularly following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s withdrawal from the race, which left Trump \u2062and\u200c Harris as the primary choices for voters.<\/p>\n<p>Chase Oliver, known\u200d for\u2063 his previous runs for the House\u200c and Senate in Georgia, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">gained national attention<\/a> in the 2022 Senate\u200b race, \u2062where he garnered 2%\u2063 of the vote, a percentage significant enough to \u200binfluence the election outcome.\u200d His presence in the presidential race could draw \u200cvotes away from the major candidates, \u200cpossibly affecting their chances of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reveals-which-states-he-is-targeting-in-spending-blitz-and-2024\/\" title=\"Biden reveals which states he is targeting in spending blitz \u2014 and 2024\">winning key states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite having limited financial\u200c resources, with approximately\u200b $450,000 raised for\u200b his campaign, Oliver&#8217;s visibility\u200b is boosted by strategic advertising efforts. Notably, a\u2063 Democratic-aligned super PAC, Civic Truth \u200dAction, has invested over\u200d $1.5 million in promoting him, framing \u2063him as a &#8220;true conservative,&#8221; which aligns with some of Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-faces-conundrum-in-trashing-trump-tax-cuts-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Harris faces conundrum in trashing Trump tax cuts - Washington Examiner\">tax policy positions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver&#8217;s candidacy, \u200calongside Green Party candidate Jill Stein, may\u2063 alter the election dynamics by siphoning votes, particularly from \u200ddisenchanted Republican voters, thereby playing a\u200d crucial role in the election&#8217;s outcome.  <\/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><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">How the Libertarian presidential candidate could be a spoiler for Trump<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1872761\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">presidential<\/a> election showed signs earlier this year that a third-party candidate could make noise. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>But those signs drifted away with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&rsquo;s withdrawal from the race, and voters are now left with few options other than Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>But one of those options is the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/libertarian-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Libertarian Party&rsquo;s<\/a> candidate for president: Chase Oliver. And he has the potential, along with Green Party candidate Jill Stein, to spoil a state win for either Harris or Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver is just 39 years old, the youngest of the major third-party candidates. He&rsquo;s from Atlanta and ran there twice as a House candidate in 2020, then a Senate candidate in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver reached national prominence with his role in his latter run, in which he received 2% of the vote in the Senate race between then-candidates Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker. He debated, without Walker, against Warnock in a face-off hosted by Georgia Public Broadcast in October, gaining him additional exposure.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver&rsquo;s 2% ultimately helped force a runoff in the Senate election when neither candidate reached 50% of the vote. Warnock would go on to win.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver now has a similar &ldquo;spoiler&rdquo; role in the 2024 presidential election. While he has had minimal funding for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/corrupt-reporters-like-olivia-nuzzi-are-destroying-democracy\/\" title=\"Corrupt &#039;Reporters&#039; Like Olivia Nuzzi Are Destroying Democracy\">presidential campaign &#038;mdash<\/a>; Oliver has raised just under $450,000 for his campaign &mdash; at least one Democratic group has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/kamala-harris-campaign-attorney-marc-elias-linked-to-swing-state-ads-boosting-libertarian-candidate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">reportedly<\/a> spent significant funds to boost him in hopes that voters will see him as an alternative to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Civic Truth Action has pushed Oliver to the tune of more than $1.5 million in YouTube ads touting him as a &ldquo;true conservative&rdquo; who wants to abolish the income tax, not dissimilar from a platform Trump has taken verbally. The super PAC&rsquo;s largest backer is the Democratic-owned Evidence for Impact.<\/p>\n<p>While Stein is generally thought to take votes away from Harris&rsquo;s progressive and far-left flank, Oliver could chip away at Trump&rsquo;s support from libertarian-aligned voters. It wouldn&rsquo;t be the first time Trump has been hurt by a libertarian candidate in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen drew more support than President Joe Biden&rsquo;s margin of victory in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin. Jorgensen received her highest vote totals, all above 2% of the vote, in eight different Republican-won states. Some libertarian ideals, like no income tax and minimal gun regulation, appeal to conservatives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oliver could serve to spoil Georgia, a slight Republican-leaning state, for Trump. A recent <em>New York Times <\/em>poll of Georgia showed him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/03\/us\/politics\/harris-trump-times-siena-poll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">nabbing<\/a> 2% support in the state, causing a 46%-46% tie between Harris and Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia could be where Oliver makes his largest impact. He&rsquo;d likely draw support away from Trump, and a Harris win in the state makes it much more difficult for the Republican to win the election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1872761\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1872761\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver may disrupt Trump&#8217;s campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2364064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/chase-oliver.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[17021,35293,44352,3634],"class_list":["post-2364060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-libertarian","tag-presidential-candidate","tag-spoiler-effect","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/chase-oliver.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364060","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364066,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364060\/revisions\/2364066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2364064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}