New Mexico Political Report interviewed Gary Johnson recently. He said, “I hope to be the Libertarian nominee.” See this story.
The week that started on October 19 has been significant already for presidential campaign news, with Joe Biden’s announcement on October 21 that he won’t run, and Jim Webb’s withdrawal from the Democratic race a few days before that.
Anderson Shumate, a student at North Carolina State University, has this column, “What Can We Learn from Canada?” about the freedom of Canadian voters to use their votes to revise national government. Shumate (so far, anyway) has more insight than the leading pundits and columnists of major U.S. media, who should be making this point. The column appears in The Technician, the university’s student newspaper.
This article says Donald Trump and Ben Carson are likely to receive Secret Service protection very soon. Hillary Clinton already has such protection because of her status as the wife of a former President.
The last presidential candidate to receive early Secret Service protection was Barack Obama, who received it fairly early in 2007. Normally, Secret Service protection for leading presidential candidates do not begin until the spring of election years. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.
According to this story, Ben Carson still hasn’t told the Florida Republican Party that he will attend its “Sunshine Summit” set for November 13-14. Florida Republican rules this year say no one can appear on the presidential primary ballot unless he or she attends the meeting, or pays $25,000, or submits 125 signatures of Republican voters in each U.S. House district.
The party has invited every presidential candidate who qualified for any Republican presidential debate to attend. Carson is the only one who hasn’t accepted.
This news story has information about the Canadian smaller parties and their vote showings on October 19.
