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Please contact us with any updates. Republican Party. Texas' current delegation to the United States Congress. John Cornyn R. Ted Cruz R. District 1. Louis Gohmert R. Daniel Crenshaw R. Lizzie Fletcher D. Kevin Brady R. Michael McCaul R. August Pfluger R.
Ronny Jackson R. Vicente Gonzalez D. Veronica Escobar D. Pete Sessions R. Sheila Lee D. Jodey Arrington R. Joaquin Castro D. Tony Gonzales R. Rand Paul , who thought he could expand on his father's base of support by appealing to establishment Republicans as well as true libertarians. Steve Grubbs, Rand Paul's chief Iowa campaign strategist, said the campaign's internal polls found that of Iowa voters who said they supported Ron Paul in , only about a third identified generally as having libertarian leanings.
Iowa was where the Ron Paul phenomenon took hold in After placing a competitive third, he eventually wound up with 22 out of the state's 28 delegates.
The liberty movement took over the Iowa state Republican party with A. But two years later, in , Striker and other Paul-friendly officials were deposed by the establishment and replaced by officials loyal to the governor, Terry Branstad. That was hastened by a series of indictments against several top Ron Paul staffers, including campaign manager John Tate and chairman Jesse Benton, who were charged with trying to bribe an an Iowa state senator for an endorsement.
Both Benton and Tate were eventually cleared of charges last fall, and Benton went on on to serve as the top strategist for a pro-Rand Paul super PAC this cycle. In an interview with CNBC. He said that Ron Paul never tried to dissuade him from supporting Trump, but added that he had no hope of bringing his former mentor along for the ride. And that's OK. In addition to peddling a home-schooling curriculum, and doing commercials for a checkered investment research firm, Paul commits his time to leading the Campaign for Liberty and the Ron Paul Institute, a foreign policy nonprofit.
But perhaps Paul's greatest political legacy is Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian student organization that Paul is not formally affiliated with, but which grew out of his presidential campaign. It currently counts college chapters and ,plus members. He is more patient, he's got time, he understands this may not be resolved in his lifetime, but that has been his strength all along.
Cruz, despite Paul's withering criticisms, has arguably made the most consistent effort to attract his former supporters, even name-checking libertarians in his Iowa Caucus victory speech. Prior to Rand Paul dropping out of the race, Cruz had already snatched the support of Iowa state Sen. Jason Schultz, who endorsed Ron Paul in , and Joel Kurtinitis, an activist who served as Paul's regional director.
Cruz also won the endorsement of former Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr , who has gotten crosswise with Paul in the past. Ultimately, former Paul staffers say, the movement and the coalition has to extend beyond individual presidential cycles to flourish. But at least one political organization sees a unique opportunity this election — the national Libertarian Party.
Past nominee Gary Johnson's 1,, votes in represented a high-water mark for the party in its year history. The party sees encouraging indicators heading into November: A Monmouth University poll commissioned last month found that Johnson, again the LP's putative front-runner this cycle, received 11 percent of the vote in a hypothetical three-way race with Trump and Clinton.
During the Virginia gubernatorial race, Libertarian Party candidate Robert Sarvis ended with almost 7 percent of the vote, the most a third-party candidate has netted in the South since Immediately after Rand Paul's exit from this year's nominating contest, the Libertarian Party saw notable spikes in new donors, according to figures provided to CNBC.
The party is on the ballot in 32 states and Washington, D. Benedict said that while Ron and Rand Paul have "branded" libertarianism as more harmonious with the GOP, he hopes that the Libertarian Party will maintain an equidistance between the two major parties.
Johnson's greatest challenge for the LP nomination appears to come from two businessmen: Austin Petersen , the CEO of a photo and video consulting firm; and John McAfee, the voyaging antivirus software magnate. Petersen has already rankled Paul supporters by pillorying Paul over his stated skepticism about the official account of the Malaysian Airlines flight that crashed in Ukraine two summers ago.
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