Five states held partisan primaries one June 2, but only Montana held a primary for a party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties (also, California held a top-two primary that had some minor party candidates running, but no party had nominees).
Here is a link to the Montana primary results, which includes the Libertarian Party’s U.S. Senate primary. Kyle Austin narrowly defeated Tom Jandron.
Here is a story from last month about the Libertarian Senate contest.
Kind of crazy it was that close since Kyle Austin put a quarter million dollars of his own money into the campaign, and it appears
Jandron raised nothing.
https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00870352/?cycle=2026&tab=summary
Unfortunately, it does seem like Kyle Austin’s commitment to the libertarian philosophy is lacking.
LOL, AIden is the arbiter of libertarian purity now?
@Lemon… I’m just affirming the take of the state party in the news article that Richard posted. That’s why there was a primary, the party didn’t want him to be the nominee.
168K votes in the R primary.
111K votes in the D primary.
3K votes in the L primary.
Independent Seth Bodnar apparently has enough signatures, with 21.3K of 30K submitted (71% valid), with 13.3K needed.