there are over a 1000000 people a 1000000 libertarians that voted for the libertarian candidate and during the selection process republicans and democrats were always both contacting us saying why are you going to vote libertarian instead of republican or democrat and that gives us the opportunity to point out how we're not voting republican because you guys say you're for smaller government but you increase spending you in keep creased taxes you increase the debt and we tell democrats you say you are for protecting civil liberties and for ending the wars but when your guys are in charge you keep those wars in the middle east going and you keep the patriot act spying on americans so maybe not when elections but impacting policy debates and reaching out to voters is what we do how it's want to pick up on something that was to sadly he said you know we're talking about a single percent support for thought parts of town to that's right it's kind of spent quite even $48.00 points night for the republicans and democrats so it's almost sad to say that that the republicans the democrats at this p

you know, wes is a libertarian. i, i have to probably think that you're, you're probably just as sick and tired of this woke politics rhetoric that just sucks all the air out of the room. when it comes to issues that affect all people, when you're sick, it doesn't remotely, doesn't matter if you're a republican or democrat or a libertarian. go ahead with us. well, if you're talking about health care in particular and this applies to other issues when, when ronald reagan was running for president, he used to say government is the problem, not the solution. and he would spend quite a bit of time explaining how free markets and freedom wark donald trump is not really reflects a fully libertarian leaning or for small government or for free markets. and so for the last 4 years, he hasn't spent any time educating and training the people and especially republicans themselves on, you know, what does it mean? how does freedom work with, with free markets, with less regulation, with lower taxes. how would it be easier for peo

the one percent that libertarians get. does play a significant role i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election maybe not win in elections but impacting policy debates and reaching out to voters is what we do how it's want to pick up on something that was just said we he said you know we're talking about a single percent support for thought party town today that's right it's kind of spread quite even 4849 for the republicans and democrats so it's almost sad to say that the republicans or democrats at this point represent the will of the majority of americans do you think that as you know you disagree with that absolutely when you look at public opinion polls majority of americans want a green new deal which is what the green party for to do with the climate crisis get the economy going again majority of americans want medicare for all in both the democrats and republicans oppose those policies the problem is that our electoral system we have abo

we discuss with america's 1st and 4th place to political concious the libertarians and greens on how people are given no real choices from the republicans and democrats. i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties or it will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election we have both who are all the winners single member districts when you take all system. which encourages people to vote for the list real. states go back to lock downs with coronavirus cases reaching new highs. a very good morning to you and thank you for joining us as we continue to bring you the latest on the race for the white house. america is a spy on easy anticipation as ballot counting enters the final stages in most states don't miss out on our special coverage america decides. thank you. thank you. so far it's been a very tight race his how it looks at this point democrat joe biden has the backing of 264 electors while his rival donald trump has secured 214 votes the threshold for winning the race is 270 votes and to have a crosses the line 1st will get america's top job but one thing we c

i don't know if libertarians are other 3rd parties or if we'll ever consistently get a high enough food to win a national election we have to rally winners single member districts when you take all system. which encourages people to vote for the listerine. know what you want to international this thursday evening just gone 8 pm here in moscow while in america counting house resumed in key states to decide the u.s. presidential election. now 2 days on from the election america still doesn't know who will be handed the keys to the white house and everything does hang on the key swing states that are yet to decline at the moment things are looking good for democrat joe biden he has the backing of 264 electoral you can see that right behind me that's if you include arizona which many say is too early to cool if it is his though it means that he needs just 6 more to reach the magic 275 victory donald trump as you can see has 214 well let's look at the polish ways to power for the counted as food joe biden securing a majority in nevada would hand him 6 electors which is an offer to put him in

professor of sociology at the university of california in santa barbara benedict founder of the libertarian political action committee good to see you all thanks for taking the time today is can we kick off with you is the electoral college system is it a relic of the past and should it be consigned to history. most of the time whoever wins the popular vote would also win the electoral college of course we've seen something different in 2 elections which was kind of surprising 2000 in 2016 i'm in texas which is a big state and i'm a libertarian so i don't prefer republicans or democrats one or the other i am what i tell voters here to try and get them to vote libertarian as i say your vote will have no impact on the outcome of the election we know republicans always win texas just like democrats always win california so go ahead and vote for a 3rd party like libertarians if you want. that example demonstrates how the electoral college does make a lot of voters preferences not very influential ok the electoral college it gives a voice to the voice lee does it not how this power to small stat

i don't know if libertarians your other 3rd parties are all we'll ever consistently good and kind of to win a national election we have to rally the winner's single member district when you take all system. which encourages people to vote for the lesser evil. england 3 imposing restrictions following the examples of wrongs and germany in a bid to flow record search in covert cases but many of your citizens a few make the most of. you know in my opinion the measures come too late and i think they should have been different to the money of god if you have no savings or support it isn't enough. for good morning to you thank you for joining us as we continue to bring you the latest on the race for the white house. with the u.s. vote by uncertainty on claims of electoral fraud thousands of people around the country have taken that anger to the streets demanding all votes are counted some of the protests a ton violence with demonstrators facing off with police up to 20 people have a portly being detained in new york. well that says america is gripped by an easy anticipation with ballot cou

i think it's an interesting point you make about the libertarian candidate. it depends on the state and the race. there can be a green party candidate who takes away votes from democrats. that certainly can be the case. in maine, for example, susan collins pulled out a win over sarah gideon who is a democrat but there were other ballot candidates who drew away from that and they were opposed to each other. they were not similar at all, they had a green party candidate and another libertarian candidate so they took away several percentage points from the two leaders. that's how you get into these runoff situations or in the case of maine, they have a ranked choice but susan collins got above the 50%. people look at florida back in 2000 and say ralph nader cost that state and cost him the presidency. advocate andumer he ran as an independent in florida. he pulled away several percentage points that could have gone -- and you can also look at the clinton-bush race and 92 and ross perot and how much he took away was double digits potentially from george h w bush.

>> my guess is that it depends -- if the libertarian voter -- i think most libertarian voters are morervatives in value, but david purdue is not the most attractive candidate to a libertarian voter because he is, you know, a former fort chon 5 -- fortune 500 ceo, he kind of represents the big money and so i think for the more libertarian-minded person, david purdue might not be their ideal candidate. so i think it comes down to are they willing to kind of overlook david purdue's kind of capitalist roots and support him because of his conservative values, or is it the opposite way, where they're more willing to support john ossoff who represents -- even though he comes from money too, but he represents that progressive that i--those progressive ideals, but again, he doesn't have the conservative values that i think possibly some libertarians might want to look for as well. so it's probably split down the middle. eric: we'll see what happens. kelly loeffler got attacked for a private jet, taking it off her taxes. quite a race. tia, thank you. arthel. arthel: dominoes keep falling at the

let's bring in the us the libertarian party's arvin vote. he's a former vice chair of the libertarian national committee. thank you very much for being with us here in our 2 international as always. so, joe biden, he's chosen an all female senior communications team. again, lots of familiar faces. we were, we've known them here on our team for quite some time. now, these are all from the obama era. why is biden going in this direction? i mean, this is an obvious distraction tactic. the idea i assume is to create such a highly noticeable identity shift that the content of the message is different. so the idea is that if you have an all female communications team saying yes, the united states is continuing perpetual war. yes, we're going to keep our keep the drug war going. yes, we're going to keep our failed welfare policies ranging from food stamps, a government schools that have kept the american people in a state of dependency. yes, we're going to keep doing that that somehow. the fact that the messages are all female will distract the ame

and we discuss with america's minor parties the libertarians and the greens on how people like you for no real choice from the republicans and democrats. i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are or will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election we have here all the winner's single member district when it's a.

if you are a libertarian and a friend who is in the middle of the road or you don't, they will understand more from this book that government involvement impressed the benefit of the well-connected. and then it's even more important. >> so to think of they are working towards so right now there is bipartisan agreement but for people who held beliefs and we can use that turned off but the most important thing for libertarians is educational and then to provide those examples they are compelling but another thing to talk about the terrorist is proportionally fallen people who are middle class and working class because we spend our money on a higher portion shoes because go to the drinking glass i will say i spend a ton of money but you get the idea the more your money is spent on consumer goods as opposed to a vacation in europe or something like that the war they fall on you but there is a more interesting example the farmer named grade shows up. he doesn't accept farm subsidies so now you think he plays his tax dollars, his earnings that's not it. the fact that other people who are rentin

we discuss with america's minor polities the libertarians and brings on how people are given no real choice from the republicans and democrats. i don't know if libertarians or other 2 parties or it will ever consistently get high enough to win a national election we have those who are already winners single member districts when you take all system.

libertarians identify as conservatives. conservatives or traditionalists identify conservative. when we think about this broad label, it actually does mean different things to different people. it applies on the left as well, that is that it is not easy to say one is just a liberal. what does that mean with the and sociallicy policy? again it can mean. different things. it is somewhat misleading to say that trump is going to win the conservative vote and biden is going to win the liberal vote, in fact there is a lot of nuance to that. what i suspect is happening in the state is the story of -- is the sort of independent philosophy that runs deep within the gop. it is something that maybe doesn't jive well with the sort thatump-style populism we've seen during the campaign. to an arizona viewer, mark, calling from flagstaff, arizona, and he support go biden. good morning. -- he support joe biden. -- he supports joe biden. with martha mcsally, do you think there is the notion that she is sort of a lame-duck senator in the fact that she was appointed to an open seat after the death

people who voted libertarian did it as a protest.in what you mean by that. >> a lot of folks who voted libertarian to make a statement, they don't like either party, they think both parties have become two versions of the same, big government, big spending in washington. removing the libertarian ballot, would have helped one candidate or another overwhelmingly but what is frustrating is in some states they have other third-party candidates like in pennsylvania where the green party candidate, that helped joe biden. >> just up right now according to our decision desk joe biden has taken the lead in georgia, he is a little over 900 votes on the right side of your screen plus 917. a couple minutes ago, the fact that in a lot of states donald trump did outperform what was expected to, a bit of a failure because they were expecting joe biden to do better. in a state like georgia where you look at what is happening right now where joe biden took the lead. what message from joe biden and his camp resonated with george of voters in a state l

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party in the libertarian vote was somewhat decisive in wisconsin but we're waiting for official results from wisconsin and from michigan now another state that is contested is pennsylvania and it's contested and many of the ballots in pennsylvania have not been counted results in pennsylvania are expected to be delayed due to the fact that the postal facility and a number of postal facilities are being inspected on orders of the us federal court so the results in pennsylvania and. the determination of who receives their 20 electoral votes will remain remain unknown for quite some time as postal facilities are being inspected so at the moment things are looking good for biden but at this point it is still you know too soon to call it right there are a number of electoral votes that are still up for grabs both candidates have a clear path to victory so at this point you really can't say many people predicted that the morning following the election in the united states it would not be clear who the winner was and despite what we've heard from both of the candidates at this point it just is

i don't know if libertarians or other 3rd parties are. consistently good.

vice presidential candidate from the libertarian party spike cohen. thank you very much for joining us on the program. now joe biden says his new team is ready to lead the world and not retreat from it. is that the impression you get from his choice of candidates? well, i think if you like the continued expansion of u.s. imperialist foreign policy, then this is a dream team for us. donald. we got tony blinken, we got michelle flournoy, admiral haynes and others who served under the obama administration. and while they were there, they were the main cheerleaders for the expansion of the war in iraq. the involvement in expansion of the war in syria, the continuation of the u.s. sponsored genocide in yemen and the involvement and invasion of libya by the us military. in fact, michele flournoy actually criticized obama for not being enough of a war hawk in syria. so if that's what you want, if you want more dead u.s. troops and dead people overseas, if you want more trillions of dollars being run up in debt to continue this empire imperial system going, t

i just want to say that i voted for jo jorgensen, the libertarian candidate for president. ofs goes to the question african-american support for biden.nd lack of it for there were african-american gentleman in back of me and i could hear the conversation. they were saying to the, so you ain't voting for biden. -- he's aone said racist mofo. i am black, but i ain't voting for biden. which is a reference to biden saying in that interview, if you don't support me, you ain't lack. this young man was saying i am black and i still ain't voting for biden. he also said i ain't voting for trump neither. he was talking about the local congressman. host: why did you vote for jo jorgensen? the -- partly because of i couldn't bring myself to vote for trump. for a variety of reasons. the democrats have kind of left me in terms of their woke culture, all the cancel culture going on. the woke politics. the holier than thou. the being able to say as biden said which i think is a racist thing, you ain't black. if a white man said, if you don't like hip-hop music, you ain't black. host: ok. t

libertarian candidate is on the ballot in all 50 states.ert, she's not just a spoiler . n the main bring her in party people. welcome back joe. guest: so glad to be here. kennedy: the biggest fight that i get in with people on twitter, aside from an interview i had last week. was about third-party voting. because i feel like if you like a candidate, if your vote, you on your body. you have agency over your own choices. therefore, you have every right to cast a vote for whomever you wish. and there's this mentality that either democrats or republicans only your vote and you are beholden to vote in a way that benefits only them, would you have to say about that. guest: you're so bright kennedy. it is so entrenched. i can't tell you>> how any radio shows and podcasts i have been on the interviewer plus me, somebody take the most votes from, democrats or republicans. i first want to say, wait a minute. not taking votes away from anybody if those of their votes, they on those votes. and they have the choice. but that just gets back down to the f

pocy in fact we recently saw gege soros a progressive came up with charles company, a rig-wing libertarian to found a new think tank, the quincy institute and what brings them togethe is a desire to kind of demilitarized or lower the militarization of the erican foreign policy and stay out of the foreign war. this is very similar to the alliance that woodrow wilson confronted between emily and other progressive activists on the left and people like bar that you just menoned on the libertarian internationalis right. >> it's funny how national character, i don't know if that is even the word for it, but some of these cultural features are. we have a question from the audience ande've had a great conversation and we would b happy to spend the next three hours going down various historical alleys together, but let's see what some of the audienceas and if anybody else would like to ask questions, you can use the ask a questn feature and it shouldllow you to put a question in. we have from kansas here i finished reading the plot against ameri by philip roth that plays out what might have happed

just like democrats always win california and what i tell voters here to try and get them to vote libertarian as i say your vote will have no impact on the outcome of the election so go ahead and vote for a 3rd party like libertarians if you want. that example demonstrates how the electoral college does make a lot of fodor's preferences not very influential i would love to see a much smaller less powerful government so that we really didn't care so much who won the election there's no identification of fraud in the us voting system we have a secure system what you have is a level of mistrust between both sides of this 2 party system who always believes the other side is cheating even if i think it's more of an american thing where we don't trust this money more like our sport we believe the other side is the plating the outgoing president we know that he tends to have more tangent than normal that has no relation to the electorial college and we are technologically advanced enough to simply count the votes i think we need to even move beyond the contract and have a system book a course in rep

i think we need a change and i think the libertarian party should bring that change. host: how so? there are things like the whole decriminalizing drugs. in oregon they have decriminalized magic mushrooms, left, but alsohe stuff like your second moment rights. that is right. it is right in the middle. host: janine in maryland, a supporter of joe biden. hello. caller: i have two points. my first point for people complaining the democratic party is cheating, it is simply not true. what we have watched over the course of a couple of months is fake ballot boxes by republicans being put in place in different states like california. dejoy taking out sorting machines that make it easier to process ballots, process the mail. militia groups intimidating voters at the polls. that is cheating by the republicans. my second point is what we are witnessing is the democratic party has a diverse party. supportd brown people democrats overwhelmingly. it looks like they have come out to vote in large numbers. the president is the one who disparaged people voting by mail. if anybody should be upset a

so go ahead and vote for a 3rd party like libertarians if you want. that example demonstrates how the electoral college does make a lot of voters preferences. not very influential. i would love to see a much smaller, less powerful government so that we really didn't care so much who won the election . there's no real identification of fraud in the us voting system. we have a secure system. what you have is a level of mistrust between both sides of this 2 party system who always believes the other side is cheating, even though i think it's more of an american thing where we don't trust this money more like our sport. we believe the other side is deflating the outgoing president . we know that he tends to have more tangent than normal. that has no relation to the electorial college and we are technologically advanced enough to simply count the votes. i think we need to even move beyond the compact and have a system of course in representation. we have a long history in united states of 3rd 4th and 5th parties trying to break into the political system. a