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this week, 2020 four campaign trail brings you highlights from the libert;s party's national convention in washington, d.c. an in-depth look race. first, the political headline of the past week. former president trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts in the hush money case against him. mr. trump had this to say the day after the manhattan jury returned its verdict. >> from the leading person, the president i am under a gag orr by a man they cannot put two sentences together. given by aouin total conjunctioe white house and ■:the doj. this is all done by biden and his people. maybe his people more important. i don't know if biden knows too much about it. i don't know if he knows much about anything. so we have to use his name. this is done by washington.

nobody has ever seen anything like it. we have a that is highly conflicted, you know what the confliction is. nobody wants to write about it. i'm not allowed to talk about it. he said i get put in jail. we will play that game a little bit longer. we will not talk about it. i hope you do. there has never been anybody so conflicted. as far as the trial itself, it was very unfair. we weren't allowed to use our eltion expert under any circumstances. you saw what happened to some of the witnesses on our side, they were literally crucified by this man who looksike an angel, but he is really a devil. he looks so nice and soft. people say he seems like such a nice man. unless you saw him in action and

we saw that with a certain and when we wanted to do things, them -- he would not let us do those things. but when the government wanted something, they got everything. they got ethryit was a rigged t. we wanted a venue change. or we could have a fair trial. we did not gett.anted a judge, s not conflicted. obviously he did not do that. let me give you the good news. the good is last night, we just got a report this morning. they raised with small money donors, like $42, $53, $38, a $39 million in about a

10 hour peod■. think of tt. >> former president trump the st weekdsibertarian party national of two non-libertarians who spoke a the convention. making his case the party should support his candidacy instead of the party's own presidential nominee. next, highlights from his remarks there anattempt to nomis a libertarian candidate. >> a lot of peoplek at this libertarian convention. is an interesting question, isn't it? but we are going to have a lot of fun.

i have been indicted by the government on 91 dier if i was in a libertarian before, i sure as hell am a libertarian now. our rights and freedoms have never been more in danger than they are right now. that is why i've come to extend a hand of friendship to ask for your partnership to defeat communism, defeat marxism, and defeat crooked joe biden who is destroying our country. we can be libertarian or anything else. this man is destroying our country. the fact is we sul fighting each other. if joe biden gets back in, there

will be no more liberty for anyone in our country. combined with us in a partnership, we are asking that of the libertarians, we must work together. combined with us, you have to combined with us. we cannot give crooked joe biden four more years. and i stand before you tonight the weaponized biden and a very evil regime that his peopl -- it is probably not him, because he does not know whe tut that he pursuing. you can make the difference.■]f. the libertarian party can makeb. together we can make america freer than ever before for citizens of all backgrounds and all walks of life. we can unleash new hope, optimism, and energy. we can release limited government so that the people can have an unlimited fure.

united, we will be unstoppable. if were unstoppable. i will be a true friend to libertarians in the white house. a great libertarian who may very well be in the room right now, i believe. but he is a great libertarian. leroy murdoch. who i have become friends with through his writings in the american sctnd numerous other places. wrote an article in which he mentions some of the things that make me a be one. that is nice. wrote donald j. trump will dress the libertarian party at his national convention libertarian party should nominate trump for president of the united states. that is nice.

that is nice. only if you want to win. maybe you don't want to win. thank you. only do that if you want to win. if you want to lose, don't do that. keep getti 3% every four years. so, policy and as the hope diamond. he said this. this is very unprecedented, he said. as the cato institute president, peter gopher observed at post, t will be the first timen 2e history a presidential candidate of a rival party will address

the convention of a party that is presumably gathering to nominate its own candidate. now i think you nominate me, or at least vote for me, andshould. ■you heard those words. nominate me or vote for me. because the libertarians want to vote for me, and most of them will. and it is very important. because we have to get rid oe w. and together we will. without it, there is a risk we could have four more years, we is the purpose of thet. libertarian party getting 3%? what is the reason to take a chance of having thient destroy, she will do in far less than four years -- it is not going to take four years. that is why i'm itting to you tonight that i will put a

libertarian in my cabinet■,, and also libertarians and senior posts. pretty good. that is pretty big. or you can keep going the way you have for the last long decade, get 3% and meet again, get another 3%. you want to make yourself winners. it is time to be winners, you have a lot of common sense. time to be a winner. i am asking for the libertarian party's endorsement, or at least lots of your votes based on my four year, very outstanding presidential record. much of my record is libertarian. >> i would like to nominate the

greatest president of our time, donald j. trump. ■>> can anyone tell me if donald j. t is able to accept the nomination? >> i object the consideration. >> i need you to be quiet -- no o points of order. we are in the middle of a nominaonmy curd and chills chair if he's checked to see if donald j.rump is a valid member of the libertarian party andees register -- and if he's registered libertarian. [applause]d onto your >>■, -- madam chair, i would lie to confirm for the record an

did take the opportunity last night after that to credential mr. trump. in all of the profiles, that not one time is he a basic sustaining member, so he does not qualify. >> you. all right. thank you very much, mr. potter. i also learned mr. trump did not turn in any nominating■hers. but heas and it is nice to be nominated. independent presidential contender robert f. kennedy, jr. also tried to make inroads at the libertarian convention and received some support in the

form of a nominatiotw days after his remarks to the group. next, highlights from mr. kennedy's time at the convention in the nation's capital. >> i'm curious how president trump is going to defend his attacks on the constitutionhei g stage. if -bas of this party, but he declined. ■ has the courage to stand up there so we can all talk about these issues and make sure these our constitution never happen again. we need to have a civics lesson for the american people to make suret is never repeated. president trump leftj9 off the assault on the constitution intensified. president so fundamental, that

james did not even think to put it in the bill of rights. he never imagined the governmens to unwilling americans in violation autonomy. that is what happened during the pandemic. of coercion and information, chaos and information, control ty informe. th wasn't the worst of it. he put the power of his office behind the assault of the one freedom un which al rely, the ff the press. we now know in the twitter files, from the in the mercy versus biting case, and my own case which is in front of the supreme court, kennedy versus biden, hours after

he took the oath of, president biden was colluding with fbi to coercthe social media sites google, twitter, facebook, youtube, instagram to open portals to allow the federal agencies to censor political speech of americans. i standf with you in valuing personal liberty. and i promise you that when i'm president, i'm going to protect your right to speak freely. i'm going to protect your right toeedom to worship area i will prote■ you . >> good morning, madam chair. i'm from pennsylvania. >> i'm hector roose from

florida. >> nominate robert f. kennedy, jr.. the single most important anti- two-party system we have seen in our lifetime. >> moment, settle down. they have nominated robert f. kennedy, jr.. and he is a member of the libertarian party. >> he is, madam chair. chair, i confirm he is a basic sustaining member. he is a basic sustaining member. it is my understanding he did turn in nomination papers that had the required amount of signatures on them. does he accept the nomination? >> >> do you want me to call him and ask him if he accepts the nominaonringing.

good morning. i'm at the podium. accept the nomination. he's going to get back to us. >> madam chair -- to microphone three. >> thank you. i do believe it is in the policy manual if you are a speaker at the convention, you have to sign to say you will not seek the mination for president for the libertarian party, therefore his nomination iou. >> i'm going to give you my ruling and another piece of information. mr. kennedy did not sign any such agreement.3. and it was not during business hours or on the stage -- during conventi business or on the stage that he spoke.

so your point of order is not well taken. i would also stateturn in any ss intention to run for secretary. so his nomination is not in order at this time. point of ore chairman. as has been explained to my team multiple times, an inability to accept the nomination or unwillingness to submit the paperwork in a timely■k fashions tantamount to declining the nomination. the reason i got outf bed this morning was to make sure you had the paperwork and i would have expected the same respect from mr. kennedy if he were serious. the libertarian party -- [applause] >> the libertarian party is quite literally convened by definition, those who are not in the room today, i will leave it to ti have been informed mr. key did accept the nomination. this is the deal.

it is time to read you guys in this body right now have a moment unlike any other. every single one of you in this room has a chance to change the course of history. not just for this country, but for the world. i understand, let's get something straight. robert kennedy is not a libertarian. can we admit that? exactly. let's get something else straight. we are all misfits, outcasts. a few of you may have been born st of us, we found our way here. we found enough pain either in the republican party or the democrat party, whatever it dee our home. his morning to let you know i accept this unexpected honor.

i will always admire the libertarian party, aligd valuey toward war, the commment to end our addiction to forever wars. and the love of personal freedoms liberties, the understanding that we are going to fulfill -- is by exercising freedom of choice and that united sta tempe are outlining those freedoms, and those freedoms are sacrosanct. and that there are no exceptions. 'm going to protect these rights, your rights, the united states constitution. i'm going to9= and i'm veryy, it is a great

honor. i look forwaiance across the country all of thesee republican and dem■ocrat corrupt duopoly. >>asd nearly 14 hours, the lirtianar nominated chase oliver as its presidential candidate. mr. oliver, who ran r e u.s. senate in georgia in 2020 has a libertarian beat out other party hopefuls to be a standardbearer for this ye's presidential race. speech near the conclusion of the libertarian convention. >> thank you libertarian party. has today been a wild ride or■f what? right now, there are two things we said first and foremost. i want to thank those who

home, to your favorite restaurants, state conventions. he airport, who text banked so far, they thought i cheated because we had so many votes coming in. i want to say than you to the presidential candidates who put themselves out there for the party. those of us who all ran for ■vpresident, we had meals together, we took the same flight, we argued in several dozen debates. all of our arguments drew us stronger, and we are better for that. i want to say thank you to the 500 members plus of our volunteer ho helped get the word across the country, and those who donated to the campaign. we had made the hard work over the last two years worth it. you answered the call when we asked for something. those who did not volunteer, i urge you to get involved in the campaign and spread liberty across all 50 states.

the energy that everyone brought is ectrgy we need to make freedom win. yes, i'm the candidate you nominated. but it is not about me. it is about all of us who will win when we spread liberty across this country. we will win because you plan the events, you took care of me and picked me up from the airport, you text banked and you take every needed request and helped this campaign. i want to preemptively say thank you to each and everyone of you who helped the campaign spread the message of freedom, liberty, invidual rights, voluntary exchange, and peace from the war machine around the country. now you are going to get asked

what is chase oliver? give me the elevator pitch. here isr pitch. if you're living your life in peace free from force, fraud, coercion, theft, or violence, your life is your life, your body is your body, your business is your business, and your life is your life. not mine to handle, and it is not the government costs now i know we've had a long day. and we've had many ballots. i urge you -- we can make it a little longer. i'm going to get out of here. what i want to say in closing is i'm fighting or a world set free in our lifetime. are you? i'm fighting to end the wars that kill innocent people. are you willing to end the wars

that kill innocent people all over the world? tired of monetary policy and inflation destroying families them to abject poverty for no other reason than the fact we print trillions of dollars a year to fund those wars. are you ready to end the inflation in o li need you to gd support me and support my running mate mike term. together, we will send the libertarian message loud and clear. i can think of no more fitting example of ctogether with a gud in the strts as an activist for police accountyability and a former police officer who understands the need for that accountability. together, we are going to send this message to the millions of people who are sick and tired of being sick and tired. in particular, those numbers of generation z who know they don't

octogenarians running their lives. they want to run their own nditions for that to happen. and the wars, the abuses, the taxation, and all taxation. because what is taxation? that is right. xation is theft. we will stop the thieving that happens from our state all over the country. i need your help to do it. thank you very much, let's set the world free in our lifetime. >> usa today's ohio politics reporter here to talk about sherrod brown, the incumbent senator from that state running for a fourth term.

>> how would you describe sherrod brown's politics? >> he is pretty progressive, but he's always focused a lot of his messaging on workers, workers rights, and labor issues. he has not been shy about disagreeing with the biden administration and other past them preside about issues like trade when he doesn't think it is serving ohio he has spoken out in favor of things like stt he was a big ade

abortion rights amendment on ohio's ballot, which passed last year and codified the right to an abortion. those are things we see him talking about. campaign and things have always>> who ared it -- his sups and are they enough to win? >> he has a lot of really big union support, which will be helpful to him in this election. he has support from democrats across the state, abortion righdvone thing that will be interesting he will also be on the ballot likely with a minimum wage issue that advocates are gathering signatures to support that on the ballot right now. seeing some overlap between those groups.

>> you mentioned his challenger. what are his strengths? >> first and foremost, he's backed by trump that is an endorsement that plays well. trump-endorsed senator j.d. vance i it propelled him to the republican primary, got him elect to office. that is really key. moreno can also play the political outsider card. that has become resident with a lot of republicans in ohio. people thinking so-called career politicians, may be looking for a change of pace in washington. i think he has that. he also has an intti businessmae emigrated legally from columbia as a child. so immigration is a really big issue for s campaign and something that is talked a lot about in ohio. >> what are his weaknesses?

>> i do think the political him. never held elected office before, that shows sometimes. he's also been inconsistent on his positions, he changed his tune about things like immigration, gun control, even once upon a time was critical of trump. have already painted him as an inconsistent person, kinof just changing whichever way the wind blows. i think that is the message you will hear through election night. >> describe their fundraising efforts as well as their ground games. >> senator brown by far has the fundraising advantage. he has been around for a while. he was able to raise money during the prep -- republican primary last year when marino was defending himself ithas of k

senator brown's campaign probly has 14 million or so in the bank. marino came out of the primary with about $1.7 million. they are both going to have support from tons of outside ■]groups, from the national sene campaign arms because the race is so competitive. outside money is going to be pouring in. now v that the donors will liky unite behind marino because they want to see sherrod brown out of office.

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