This New York Times story talks about leading Republican Party figures who say they would back a “third party” for President if Donald Trump becomes the nominee. The story mentions the Libertarian Party and the Constitution Party. Generally, the New York Times never mentions the Libertarian Party. Even when Gary Johnson declared for the Libertarian nomination on January 6, 2016, an announcement that received coverage in virtually all daily newspapers in the U.S., the New York Times did not mention the Johnson announcement, at least not in the paper edition.
On March 2, an Illinois state trial court dismissed a lawsuit challenging the qualifications and ballot status of Ted Cruz in the upcoming Illinois presidential primary. The plaintiff failed to serve Cruz himself; he only served attorneys for Cruz. See this story.
Via Independent Political Report, here are the results of the Minnesota Libertarian Party caucus, held March 1. The caucuses were attended by 227 voters.
Here are the Minnesota Green Party caucus results, from the party’s web page. That web page only gives percentages received by each candidate, not the number of votes for each, so one can’t tell how many votes were cast.
The Independent Party has asked the Oregon Secretary of State to list these ten candidates on its presidential primary ballot: Republicans Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump; Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders; independent Mike Bloomberg; Libertarian Gary Johnson; and Green Party member Jill Stein. The Oregon presidential primary is May 17.
This Washington Post story says some evidence shows that many Democrats in northern Virginia chose a Republican presidential primary ballot. The story also says that the evidence is that many, if not most, of these Democrats voted for Marco Rubio.