According to a new survey of 804 registered Utah voters conducted for the Deseret News/Hinckley Institute of Politics, incumbent U.S. Senator Mike Lee is leading in his re-election bid with the support of 43% of voters. Independent challenger Evan McMullin runs second at 19% and Democrat Kael Weston trails with only 11%.… Read more ...
Thomas P. Schneider, the former mayor of Florissant, Missouri has announced that he is going to run run as an independent for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Roy Blunt.
A self-described centrist, Schneider who served as the nonpartisan mayor of Florissant from 2011 to 2019, and previously served on the city council from 1979 to 2011.… Read more ...
Last month, I announced my candidacy for the Green Party nomination for the US Senate in North Carolina. I am a disabled Marine Corps combat veteran of the Iraq war.
In 2009, I resigned from my position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war.… Read more ...
Minnesota’s Norma Lundeen, widow of the Farmer-Labor Party’s Ernest Lundeen, an isolationist who was later accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, unexpectedly entered the race for her late husband’s U.S. Senate seat in July of 1942.
Lundeen’s husband, who had been tragically killed in a plane crash near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia two years earlier, was reportedly under investigation by the FBI at the time of his death.… Read more ...
Pat Ford chatted with William Henry and James Sceniak on this week’s edition of the LP’s Candidates Corner. The pair of men are currently seeking the Libertarian Party’s nomination to run for U.S. Senate in Indiana next year.
Henry was the party’s nominee for Lt. Governor in 2020, running with Donald Rainwater III.… Read more ...
Former Libertarian National Committee chairman Bill Redpath is running for U.S. Senate in Illinois. He will be challenging the re-election bid of Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, who is seeking to win a second term.
Redpath has long been a fixture in party leadership, serving in a variety of positions with both the LNC and the Libertarian Party of Virginia.… Read more ...
Former Democratic congressman Ben McAdams and former United Utah Party candidate Jonia Broderick are supporting independent candidate Evan McMullin, who is vying to unseat Senator Mike Lee.
In a joint editorial for the Deseret News, they laid out their case:
… Read more ...Utah deserves someone who won’t forget why we sent him there, someone who is free to look for good ideas and to work with anyone who helps solve problems facing our country.
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Phil Anderson of Fitchburg, WI has announced his formation of an exploratory committee to possibly run for Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate seat in 2016, in an election currently expected to feature a rematch between incumbent first-term Republican Ron Johnson and Democratic former Senator Russ Feingold.
Anderson is a realtor and the general manager of Green Cab of Madison, a company which offers environmentally-friendly hybrid cabs. … Read more ...
Press Release via the Libertarian Party:
Today Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark released the following statement:
I woke up this morning to the news that the government no longer has the legal authority to spy on the phone records of every American.… Read more ...