Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson reiterated his pro-Second Amendment stance in light of the Orlando shooting in a phone interview with Reason Tuesday morning. “I understand how so many people can believe that if you restrict this kind of weapon you can prevent this kind of incident,” Johnson said. “But there’s just no evidence whatsoever…
As the Libertarian Party nominee for president, Governor Gary Johnson is now tasked with peeling off voters from two historically unpopular candidates in the major parties. The question is, however, how quickly he can consolidate his own base. Perhaps due to the possibility of having a substantial impact on the electoral outcome, the nominating process…
In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday night, Mitt Romney, 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said that he will not rule out voting for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in 2016. An outspoken Never Trumper, Romney has insisted that he will not be voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in November. With the…
The one word consistently used to describe the 2016 Presidential Election Cycle is “unprecedented.” It is unprecedented that a figure like Trump swooped in to take over a major political party; it is unprecedented that the Democrats nominated a figure with unfavorables as high as Hillary Clinton; it is unprecedented that Americans are so displeased…
Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian presidential nominee, has described his tax policy on his own website as follows: Governor Johnson advocates the elimination of tax subsidies, the double taxation embodied in business income taxes, and ultimately, the replacement of all income and payroll taxes with a single consumption tax that will allow every American and…
Samantha Bee’s interview with Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson is anything but conventional — it’s also considerably more entertaining than most of Johnson’s interviews. “Let’s say you were choosing a sandwich,” Bee said in the opening to Monday’s Full Frontal segment. “What do you do when your only choices are something morally reprehensible, against the…
By Guy Bentley Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson promises he won’t use marijuana if he’s elected president in November. Johnson won the nomination for the second time May 29 and picked former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld as his running mate. In an interview with The Hill Monday, Johnson freely admitted he had used marijuana as…
Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, continues to improve in the polls. He has been averaging 8.5% in national polling against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Johnson did very well in a recent poll conducted among Utah voters. In a new Gravis poll, Johnson received 16%, while Trump received 29% and Clinton 26%. “Other”…
Yesterday, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) slammed Governor Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, on Twitter. This comes after he said he would consider voting for the Libertarian Party ticket and announced he would not be voting for either Trump or Clinton. Notes for October:Johnson is pro-abortion, pro-exec overreach, bad on religious liberty & naive…
Republican Sasse Could Lend Legitimacy to Libertarians by Josh Guckert Yesterday, Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) announced that he plans to vote for president in November and that he and his wife will decide in October for whom to vote. Sasse definitively ruled out voting for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton, stating that while he “hasn’t looked…