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On March 1, 2016, Johnson won the Libertarian Party of Minnesota caucus with 76% of the vote. [24] On March 29, 2016, Johnson attended the first nationally televised pre-nomination convention Libertarian Party presidential debate, hosted by Fox Business Network, on John Stossel's show Stossel. The two-hour debate was divided into two one hour ...
Gary Johnson, who had won the party's nomination in the 2012 presidential election, won North Carolina with 42%. In Missouri a plurality of voters chose the "Uncommitted" option over local candidate Austin Petersen, 40% to 29%, with Johnson not appearing on the Missouri ballot due to announcing his candidacy after the filing deadline.
He has received over 100 thousand popular votes and one electoral vote. Two other electoral votes were disallowed. Notably, he came in third in Vermont, [48] coming ahead of both Gary Johnson and Jill Stein and taking 5.7% of the vote (18,183 tallied), something that has never happened before in a fall Presidential election.
President Barack Obama said Wednesday he thinks a vote for third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein is a vote for Donald Trump.
In recent national polls, Johnson got about 10 percent in a three-way matchup against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Libertarians now have a presidential candidate: Gary Johnson Skip to main ...
Johnson, who says he voted for Libertarian Party nominee Chase Oliver, predicted a Trump victory—an outcome about which he confessed to having mixed feelings. "Half of what Trump does is good ...
The election is one of five presidential elections in American history that the winner of the popular vote did not win the presidency. Libertarian Gary Johnson won 3.3% of the popular vote, the strongest performance by a third party presidential nominee since the 1996 election.
The 2016 election marked the eighth consecutive presidential election where the victorious major party nominee did not receive a popular vote majority by a double-digit margin over the losing major party nominee(s), with the sequence of presidential elections from 1988 through 2016 surpassing the sequence from 1876 through 1900 to become the ...