Why people are endorsing ron paul

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Photo Galleries. More from GlobalPost: Mitt Romney's classmates remember him as a bully. In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Benton said the campaign had turned down the Republican National Committee's offer to set up a joint general election fundraising committee, as it has with Romney, and warned that Paul's supporters aren't a sure thing for the former Massachusetts governor this fall. 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. Whether any of them can rally support from the less libertarian parts of the Paul coalition remain to be seen.

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