Libertarian Party 2024 POTUS candidates

[pmbug]

RELATED:

• Libertarian Party 2024 national convention
• Libertarian Party 2024 POTUS/VP ticket: Chase Oliver & Mike ter Maat

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Is anyone here tuned in to the Libertarian Party enough to provide some insight into the candidates vying for the LP nomination for POTUS this election cycle?

Aaron Avouris
Antonio Gagnon
Beau Lindsey
Charles Ballay
Charles Griffith Ferry
Chase Oliver
David Andrew Saber
David A. Puchta
David Dunlap
David Reed DeSilva
Frederick James Clegg
Hugo Valdez Garcia
Jacob Hornberger
Jason Karroll
John Thomas Reinhold
Jon Stewart
Joshua Anderson
Joshua D. Smith
Joshua Rodriguez
Kevin Babicz
Kevin Tucker
Lars Mapstead
Mario A. Perales
Melissa Biondi
Michael D. Rectenwald
Mike ter Maat
Nathan J. Vaught Jr.
Raymond Dude Wagner
Robert E. Sansone
Russell DeLeon
Seymour Art Lee
Trime Clover Taveler

https://ballotpedia.org/Libertarian_Party_presidential_nomination,_2024

I assume there are only a handful from that list that are realistically viable for winning the party nomination. Any ideas who they are? I only recognize one name in that list and that's mostly because he's really active on X/Twitter.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Some links (from the "POTUS 2024 declared candidates" thread):

Libertarian:

• Jacob Hornberger [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Lars Mapstead [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Chase Oliver [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Michael Rectenwald [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Joshua Smith [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Mike ter Maat [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]

Their Twitter/X accounts:

Jacob Hornberger: https://twitter.com/JacobforLiberty
Lars Mapstead: https://twitter.com/LibertarianLars
Chase Oliver: https://twitter.com/ChaseForLiberty
Michael Rectenwald: https://twitter.com/RecTheRegime
Joshua Smith: https://twitter.com/JoshuaAtLarge
Mike ter Maat: https://twitter.com/terMaatMike
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Also from that thread:

Pumpkins & Peace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIwkxJobBaI
{NJ Libertarian Party | 03 October 2023 @ 4:30 PM EDT}

Pumpkins & Peace Presidential Debate LIVESTREAM on October 3rd, from Black Forest Inn, Stanhope, NJ!

The Northern New Jersey Libertarian Party will be hosting a line up of presidential candidates and fun events for the whole family.

Entry is free, all are welcome. You do not need to be a member to attend. We encourage the community to come enjoy with us. Our venue, the Black Forest Inn, will be closed this day but there will be food, beverages and alcohol for purchase.

More info at https://northnjlp.org/event/pumpkinsandpeace2023/

 

[pmbug]

Thanks OB. I strongly dislike all encompassing meta threads. They are terrible vehicles for organizing information in logical groupings by topic for browsing. Do you have any sense of which candidates are most likely to achieve a competitive level of support with the party? Or that have real campaigns (financing, field support, advertising/marketing efforts, etc.)? I imagine some of these candidates just threw a hat in the ring without any real plan, organization or serious thought about competing/winning.

 

[Matt Collins]

If the LP were smart (they aren't unfortunately), they would run an excellent and credible candidate that could self-fund and that candidate would simply hang out in swing states and message farther to the right than the GOP and farther to the left than the DNC. The LP would gain immense political power that way. But that's too much to ask.

 

[acptulsa]

If the LP were smart (they aren't unfortunately), they would run an excellent and credible candidate that could self-fund and...

... give him or her a unicorn for a running mate, too.

But that's too much to ask.

Ya think?

 

[Matt Collins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MNsjjSohqM

 

[Occam's Banana]

I strongly dislike all encompassing meta threads. They are terrible vehicles for organizing information in logical groupings by topic for browsing.

They have their virtues (especially given the limitations of vBulletin's search functionality) - and it's not like there's an exclusive "either/or" choice to be made between "generality only" and "particularity only". (Hammers are good for things screwdrivers are not well suited to do, and vice versa.) In this specific instance, for example, there are multiple separate and independent threads for the more notable candidates such as Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, RFK Jr., et al. - some of which are linked to in the OP and subsequent posts of the "POTUS 2024 declared candidates" thread. Without such a thread, some of the not-so-notable (but perhaps nevertheless interesting) candidates are apt to be overlooked altogether - and such threads are also good when a broad overview is desired (especially given that one can't really look for something one doesn't even know might be there to be looked for).

Do you have any sense of which candidates are most likely to achieve a competitive level of support with the party? Or that have real campaigns (financing, field support, advertising/marketing efforts, etc.)? I imagine some of these candidates just threw a hat in the ring without any real plan, organization or serious thought about competing/winning.

I haven't followed things closely. My familiarity is limited to the things I happen to see on Twitter and the like. Based on that, the broad sense I get is that the ones I listed are the leading contenders (which is why I listed them). Prior to the nomination, campaigns mostly amount to internal party politicking, which presently seems to be conducted primarily by means of social media and interpsonal "networking". It's not until after the nomination that things like field support, financing, and publicity really come into play (the responsibility for which falls mostly on the national party). All this is mostly due to the fact that selection of the nominee is exclusively reserved to dues-paying members of the LP, rather than to the general voting public.

 

[Occam's Banana]

LPFCON24 Libertarian Party Presidential Debate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5KAYk665vM
{Libertarian Party of Florida | 26 January 2024}

Watch as the great Gene Epstein moderates a spicy debate between six hopefuls to win the Libertarian Party Nomination for President. The debate was held Saturday, January 20th at the Southbank Hotel Riverwalk in Jacksonville, FL at our 2024 Convention and Annual Business Meeting.

[see the list in the post quoted below for participating candidates - OB]

• Jacob Hornberger [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Lars Mapstead [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Chase Oliver [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Michael Rectenwald [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Joshua Smith [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]
• Mike ter Maat [Ballotpedia] [Wikipedia] [LPedia]

 

[Occam's Banana]

Michael Rectenwald and Clint Russell | Part Of The Problem 1124
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT8fN9czVZc
{Dave Smith | 18 May 2024}

On this episode of Part Of The Problem, Dave is joined [by] the libertarian ticket for the 2024 presidential election, Michael Rectenwald and Clint Russell.

Find Michael Rectenwald here:
- Twitter: https://x.com/RecTheRegime
- Website: https://rectenwald2024.com/

Find Clint Russell here:
- Twitter: https://x.com/LibertyLockPod
- Linktree: https://linktr.ee/libertylockdown

 

[Invisible Man]

If the LP were smart (they aren't unfortunately), they would run an excellent and credible candidate that could self-fund and that candidate would simply hang out in swing states and message farther to the right than the GOP and farther to the left than the DNC. The LP would gain immense political power that way. But that's too much to ask.

Yes, the LP should nominate one of the billionaires that is seeking their nomination.

 

[Occam's Banana]

THREAD: Libertarian Party 2024 POTUS/VP ticket: Chase Oliver & Mike ter Maat

https://x.com/LP_CLC/status/1794959301968367684