Never-Trump Republicans Announce New Fundraising Effort To Re-Defeat the Ex-President
Renew America Movement co-founder Miles Taylor vows, "We will split the vote and sink him."
Renew America Movement co-founder Miles Taylor vows, "We will split the vote and sink him."
Anti-Trump Republicans have yet to win an intra-party fight. And launching third parties are for marathoners, not sprinters.
Three reasons to be skeptical about Evan McMullin's latest political initiative.
Trump's outgunned primary challenger says he'd endorse Biden and Bloomberg but not Sanders, and that Republicans might still go the way of the Whigs.
The former Massachusetts governor and 2016 Libertarian V.P. candidate gets just 9 percent in his own back yard, will continue to Super Tuesday.
"I like a lot of what she has to say," the former Libertarian Party presidential candidate tells Reason.
The president's would-be primary challengers fail to reach 2 percent, and are being out-fundraised a combined 230 to 1.
Jacob Hornberger becomes the latest back-to-basics libertarian to enter the Libertarian presidential race.
The 'Three Stooges' of Bill Weld, Joe Walsh, and Mark Sanford raised $647,000 combined in the third quarter, compared to $125.7 million for the presidential juggernaut.
Republican Presidential Nomination
Even as impeachment poll numbers rise, the GOP gleefully stifles any hint of internal dissent.
The 2008 Libertarian Party presidential ticket continues to run interference for the embattled Republican president.
Both the president and his critics casually deploy the once-incendiary charge to discredit their opponents.
Dave Smith and Nicholas Sarwark debate the 2016 Libertarian Party ballot, what constitutes success in an election, and how to effectively share libertarian principles.
Dave Smith and Nicholas Sarwark debate the 2016 Libertarian Party ticket, what constitutes success in an election, and how to effectively share libertarian principles.
President with 90% approval ratings among Republicans will be shielded from Bill Weld and Joe Walsh in four states, reports Politico.
The ex-congressman and talk show host thinks he can save the Republican Party.
Plus: The trade war still isn't good or easy to win, trans activists are upset about a new romantic comedy, and more....
The man who couldn't win a GOP primary on his home turf as an incumbent is polling at just 4%—though even that is better than Bill Weld.
If Mark Sanford wants to run a presidential campaign on restraining federal spending, he's in the wrong party.
The libertarian-leaning Republican was unseated after criticizing, among several things, the president's poor grasp of the Constitution.
Trump's challenger soldiers on despite being outraised 150 to 1 and outpolled by more than 70 percentage points.
The #NeverTrump primary challenge to the president is nearly DOA.
Scuffling GOP primary challenger, meanwhile, defends his assertion that the president would prefer an "Aryan nation"
So much for impartial arbitration of intra-party competition.
With the Mueller report scaring off other GOP challengers, the special prosecutor's former boss calls on the president to resign, raises "millions," and continues to get drubbed in the polls.
Why is the president rigging a primary fight he's leading by 70 percentage points?
The first Republican to primary the president is an ex-Libertarian worried about debt, divisiveness, and decorum.
Sobering reminder for all current and future Libertarians: A previously unknown mayor from a midsized Indiana college town will soon shatter the high-water fundraising numbers for America's third party.
Confidants of the late senator have either buckled, joined #NeverTrump plotters, or bolted.
When voters see what the actual options are, their interest in political competition plummets.
In a New Yorker interview, the would-be primary challenger compares the president to Charles Lindbergh.
Ronna McDaniel's CPAC comments are latest indication that the Republican National Committee will tilt heavily Trump in 2020.
"All I can do is keep plotting straight ahead," says the GOP field's lone challenger, who is polling at 18 percent.
The possible presidential contender has come a long way since his tough-on-crime speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention, but he's still emphasizing his U.S. attorney past.
Richard Nixon faced a primary challenger in 1972...and he squashed him like a bug.
The first semi-declared 2020 GOP challenger comes out blazing against the president while trying to wriggle off the hook about his recent Libertarian past.
Pro-choice, Obama-supporting "Libertarian for life" will take a "substantial" move Friday toward competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
Billionaire seeks ballot access, political party seeks cash, both hate the national debt...but Schultz is far more interventionist at home and abroad than, say, Bill Weld.
Untethered from real-world constraints, progressive Democratic policy goes utopian.
"As far as we're concerned he's a Libertarian and he can't flip-flop back and forth for political expediency," says New Hampshire GOP chair.
Despite Weld's 14 months of party-building as a Libertarian, the local media and some of his allies are talking up a GOP primary challenge to Donald Trump
"That's me!" jokes Bill Weld, while calling Amash a "hero" and encouraging the congressman to run.
Party activists reflect after both a disappointing midterm and an energizing Jeff Hewitt win
"Fishman would bring a sorely needed independent streak to the office," the paper editorializes.
Former L.P. veep pick says 2016 emphasis on the "six-lane highway" down the middle of the road "might have been a fundamental error."
State Rep. Brandon Phinney talks about removing outdated laws, being an Army reservist against interventionism, and what the L.P. needs to do in an era of Trumpism and Democratic Socialism.
The former governor cut government's size, scope, and spending in Massachusetts. Now he says he wants to shrink the federal government too.
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