(NOTE: UPDATED 23 October 9:30pm EST) — In an email received by IPR earlier today, Michael Rectenwald announced his plan for securing the Libertarian Party’s Presidential Nomination some 31 weeks from today; a plan focused on securing delegates to the party’s convention, to be held May 24, 25, and 26, 2024 in Washington DC. He joins at least six other candidates who are known by IPR to be currently seeking the nomination (see list with links to campaign sites below).
The email from Rectenwald states:
I wanted to share my plan to win the Libertarian presidential nomination with you. Securing the nomination is all inside baseball, but long story short, the candidate with the support of the most delegates at the national convention wins. That’s why I’m asking you, as one of my earliest supporters, to become a delegate today. Please click the button below to start the process of becoming a delegate for my presidential campaign. We only get one shot at securing the Libertarian Party nomination. If we fail to send enough delegates, our campaign is over. Becoming a delegate is the most important thing you can do to help us win. By signing up today, my team will contact you with the next steps and what is involved. Signing up right now isn’t a total commitment, but it is the first step to becoming a delegate. This is your chance to take direct action and decide who you want to represent the Libertarian Party in the presidential race. Together, we can Rec the Regime!
Please click here to become a delegate today.
Thank you, Michael Rectenwald
Note: Links to become a delegate can be found on each candidate’s website (where provided). For fairness the hyperlink in the original email has not been included in this article. That link invites supporters to provide their name, address, email, and phone number, which is also typical of the other campaigns.
Those who have announced that they are currently seeking the LP nomination include – Keenan Dunham, Jacob Hornberger, Mike ter Maat, Lars Mapstead, Chase Oliver, and Joshua Smith.
Campaign websites can be found by clicking on the campaign banners below. (Campaigns are ordered alphabetically by last name; despite varying aspect ratios, an attempt was made to provide approximately the same area for each image.)
IPR readers who click on each of the above images, and then carefully read through each campaign’s website (links in the images above) are invited to provide informed critiques of campaign strategy, issues, graphics, and related analysis in the comments below. The candidates themselves, as well as their campaign team members, are invited to provide additional information in the comments section as well.
IPR anticipates publishing additional articles as significant information regarding the above campaigns, as well as those from other independent candidates, or the campaigns of other “third” parties, is discovered and/or brought to our attention.
(NOTE: Dr. Ricardo Mejias has been mentioned as a possible additional candidate seeking the LP POTUS nomination, but IPR was unable to find any official announcement nor a relevant website. IPR readers are invited to provide the same in the comments below. IPR will update as warranted.)
I have successfully contacted all but one of the candidates attending the SCLP convention and debate tomorrow.
I know nothing about it. These events are not very well promoted. Probably good research for my coverage of the November debate here. I will investigate…
Stewart Flood @ OCTOBER 21, 2023 — and ALL
Does anyone have any information on the LP POTUS candidate forum (debate?) that was held 21 October 2023 in Jacksonville FL?
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Debate-Logo-21-Oct-2023.jpg
https://gxstocks.com/lars-mapstead-talks-2024-strategy-ahead-of-libertarian-presidential-candidate-forum-in-jacksonville/
Jacob Hornberger’s name has been added to the list and Jacob Hornberger’s banner with link to the campaign site has been included (Thanks Todd Hagopian @ OCTOBER 23, 2023).
The number of candidates Rectenwald is joining has been increased from “five” to “six”.
The regrettable misspelling of Mike ter Maat’s last name has been corrected.
An “UPDATED” flag has been added to the beginning of the article.
IPR welcomes further reader corrections and suggestions for improvement.
Not sure where my comment went, apologize if this is posted twice. Jacob Hornberger is a 2024 candidate with a website, making FEC filings, and has raised the same amount (or more) of non-candidate money as the rest of these candidates.
http://www.jacobforliberty.com
Jacob Hornberger had announced, is filing reports, and has raised as much non-candidate money as the other guys.
http://www.Jacobforliberty.com
Of course you posted this about two minutes after I sent my email to campaigns about interviews at the SCLP debate. 😉
I have no idea what the requirements are to get into the debate, and I cannot find them anywhere. So if he attends, and is willing to be interviewed, I will add him to the list.
“the candidate with the support of the most delegates at the national convention wins.”
Not exactly; it’s a run-off and requires a majority to gain the nomination. A candidate at the beginning of the process with “the most” (unless it’s over half) of the delegates does not get the nomination, at least not at that time.
Also looking at the article above, I am reminded of John McAfee’s comments to the assembled delegates in Orlando in 2016. Where are the women and people of color?
If I remember correctly John’s point about not being able to become a successful political movement without far greater diversity than we had among the delegates and candidates at that convention (or have in this article) was well taken by the delegates then. I recall cheers and applause, some of that from me (and my then 19 year-old delegate daughter).
It’s almost ten years later . . . Has the LP become more inclusive, or less?