Chase Oliver wins Libertarian Party presidential nomination

CNN ^ | May 26, 2024 | Aaron Pellish

[Reno89519]

Chase Oliver won the Libertarian Party presidential nomination on Sunday after seven rounds of voting at the party’s convention in Washington, DC.

The 38-year-old, who has previously run for Congress multiple times in Georgia, focused his pitch on making Libertarian values palatable to a broader audience.

In an interview with CNN following his nomination, Oliver said he believes earning 2% of the vote nationally in November’s general election is a reasonable goal.

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[Reno89519]

Libertarians pick a mentally ill man as their candidate. At least RFK Jr got only 19 votes before being eliminated. Trump was not included because some states don't allow the candidate to be representing more than one party on the ballot. Too confusing for ballot counters.

Libertarians would have been better to skip a nominee and instead just endorse Trump. Cheaper too.

[lee martell]

Who? Chasen Sanborn? Is he still around?

[Reno89519]

[volare737]

That nutcase they nominated supported Obama. Yep, real small government Libertarian there. /s

Amazing.

[Dr. Sivana]

Libertarians would have been better to skip a nominee and instead just endorse Trump.

Trump isn't a Libertarian. He is not shy about spending, is NOT a free-trade-above-all junkie, and isn't reflexively against an activist federal government.

He is fighting the Deep State, not thrilled with new military entanglements and not eager for wars, and isn't interested in using the government to enforce Woke ideology.

But that isn't sufficient for most Libertarians.

[volare737]

Well, the bright side is this.

He will draw NO votes from Trump.

As a gay, open borders candiadte, he will draw SOME votes from Biden.

[Reno89519]

Here are some rather interesting points on his positions:

https://www.isidewith.com/candidates/chase-oliver-2/policies

He is a libertarian, even if mentally ill.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

A mentally ill man who supports the US Constitution’s First & Fourth Amendments is better than a man who doesn’t.

[Drew68]

In an interview with CNN following his nomination, Oliver said he believes earning 2% of the vote nationally in November’s general election is a reasonable goal.

It was 3% but after yesterday, they're giving 1% to Trump (and he'll probably take more).

[Az Joe]

He got 2% in the GA Senate race in ‘22, forcing the runoff.

2nd Amendment supporting gay guy

Oliver, 38, was previously a Democrat and had supported Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election but later left the Democratic Party due to his own anti-war views, which he felt were not being adequately represented by the party. Oliver joined the Libertarian Party in 2010 after meeting several members of the party at an Atlanta Pride Festival

[Az Joe]

On the ballot in all 50 states

[Drew68]

A mentally ill man who supports the US Constitution’s First & Fourth Amendments is better than a man who doesn’t.

A man who supports your views 50% of the time and can win is better than the man who supports your views 100% of the time but will undoubtedly lose to the man who supports your views 0% of the time.

[lightman]

When I think of Oliver THIS image comes to mind:

[lightman]

A mentally ill man who supports the US Constitution’s First & Fourth Amendments is better than a man who doesn’t.

If a sane man doest not support the US Constitution's First & Fourth Amendments I question his sanity.

[Farcesensitive]

Abortion

Oliver self-identifies as pro-choice, although he is opposed to taxpayer funding of abortions. He believes that abortion should be legal nationwide, and he has said he would support legislation to make it so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Oliver

[lee martell]

I see he’s wearing his Team Colors.
No one can say they didn’t know his ‘Raison d’etre’.

[drSteve78]

Didn’t know that the L in the LGBTAlphsbetSoup group was Libertarian, thought it was some serious group of women…..

[Reno89519]

Who? Trump, Yes. Democrats, maybe. Libertarians in only 28-36 states and DC. Independent RFK Jr. currently in 15 states.

[drSteve78]

For those in Rio Linda and others among us that need “‘splainin’ “

/SARCASM

[Drew68]

Chase Oliver.

He ain't winning s***