The former president could face a hostile crowd when he addresses the Libertarian Party on Saturday.
People stand to vote no on a motion during a business session at the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, on May 24, 2024. | Francis Chung/POLITICODonald Trump won’t be speaking to his usual self-selected crowd of adoring red-hatted MAGA fans when he addresses the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday.
The raucous opening to the convention reflects the pockets of hostility that Trump faces as he appeals to the Libertarians to help him box out a growing, third-party threat from Kennedy’s independent presidential campaign. Suburban Philadelphia options trader Jeff Yass, a libertarian and one of the GOP’s biggest donors, who was not in attendance at the convention, said it was “unclear” whether Trump could make inroads with libertarian voters. Yass, who bankrolled an effort to stop Trump from winning the Republican nomination and financed several of his primary opponents,“He has some libertarian instincts for sure.
Yet Trump is encountering resistance, not only from rank-and-file Libertarian Party members, but from leading figures within the movement — including Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the son of former Texas congressman and ex-presidential candidate Ron Paul., and in February, Kennedy announced that he supported Paul to be the next Senate GOP leader when Minority Leader Mitch McConnell retires after this legislative session.
While many convention-goers lamented that Trump’s presence would distract from the party’s own presidential candidates, his appearance has generated increased media attention, registrations and ticket sales. In the hours after announcing Trump’s speaking slot,Outside the Washington Hilton, mobile billboards criticizing Trump and Kennedy sat beside each other. | Francis Chung/POLITICO
The infighting over the speaking invites to Trump and Kennedy reflect a civil war within the Libertarian Party. Since 2022, the hard-line Mises Caucus has controlled party leadership, forcing out many of the more pragmatically minded Libertarians that had supported the presidential ticket of former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and former Mass. Gov. Bill Weld in 2016, both of whom received record high levels of support for the party nationally.
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