2020 Archives - The Libertarian Republic

Did Jacob Hornberger Rig the New York Libertarian Primary?0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page, Opinions
- April 1, 2020
At the beginning of March, controversy arose in the Libertarian Party of New York (LPNY) after it was announced that, out of the eight qualified candidates for the 2020 Libertarian presidential nomination, seven of them were being kicked off the ballot. The one candidate who remained: Jacob Hornberger. While all primaries in the Libertarian Party
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Sometimes Contested Conventions Get It Right 0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page, Opinions
- March 24, 2020
Will this summer’s Democratic Party national convention in Milwaukee be a slugfest? Might the eventual nominees for president and vice president be compromise choices that result from inconclusive primaries or from delegates having second thoughts about the leading candidates? Convention surprises are not without precedent in American political history. In fact, a century ago the
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Why Is Joe Biden Supporting California’s Job-Killing Anti-Gig Work Law?0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page, Opinions
- March 17, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden has endorsed California’s job-killing AB 5 law, which restricts freelance work. This was after AB 5 “killed countless gig-worker jobs all over the state,” especially jobs held by “entertainers, freelance writers” and other people who tend to have multiple clients rather than a single employer, notes Red State’s Nick Arama. Due to AB 5,
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Have the Democrats Learned Their Lesson?0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page, Opinions
- March 13, 2020
After Joe Biden’s surprise blowout victory in the South Carolina Democratic Primary, the ensuing momentum carried him on to yet another incredible performance on Super Tuesday, putting his delegate count slightly above Sanders. And as Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Bloomberg all dropped out and rallied around the former vice president, Biden had developed a solid coalition
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Democrats Are Working to Create Permanent Democratic Presidential Rule 0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Abuse of Authority, Front Page, Opinions
- March 12, 2020
This article is not about the 2020 election. It’s about a more serious effort by the Democratic party to permanently control the presidency. The effort has a non-threatening name “The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact,” (“NPV”). Under NPV, a state, by agreement with other states in the compact, awards all its electoral votes to the
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Cory Booker Endorses Biden 0
- 2020 Presidential Race, Front Page, Headline News
- March 9, 2020
Mary Margaret Olohan Former 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president in a tweet Monday. “The answer to hatred & division is to reignite our spirit of common purpose. @JoeBiden won’t only win – he’ll show there’s more that unites us than divides us,” the New Jersey Democrat tweeted. “He’ll restore honor
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