Here is the story from ABC News.
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On August 28, 2023, Michael Rectenwald filed a Form 1 at the Federal Election Commission as a candidate seeking the Presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party. Here is the story on Independent Political Report.
This is his webpage on the Mises Institute website, with numerous podcasts hosted by and essays written by Mr. Rectenwald. I have been told by a knowledgeable source, that he is the favorite candidate of the Mises Caucus within the Libertarian Party.
On July 28, 2023, Joe Sanger of Lansing, Michigan, died at the age of 85. He had been one of the founders of the U.S. Taxpayers Party in 1992, along with Howard Phillips and others. In 1999 the party changed its name to the Constitution Party.
Sanger served as the party’s national treasurer for 20 years. Here is an obituary.
On August 29, a Connecticut state court ruled against Shafiq Abdussabur, a candidate for Mayor of New Haven who wanted to be on the September primary ballot. Abdussabur v Evans, New Haven Superior Court, NH-cv-23-6135336. His petition was rejected for not having enough signatures. The very day he was ruled off the ballot, he filed a lawsuit and evidence that his petition did have enough valid signatures.
The city still kept him off the ballot on the grounds that absentee voting had already started. The judge upheld that decision, citing the “Purcell Principle.” The U.S. Supreme Court had invented this principle in 2006, in a case that hadn’t even been briefed or argued in the U.S. Supreme Court. The “Purcell Principle” said election procedures cannot be changed too soon before an election. Now this Connecticut court has expanded the principle to include correcting errors in the list of candidates who should be on the ballot. This completely contradicts the history of past U.S. Supreme Court intervention in adding candidates to the ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court kept George Wallace on the Ohio ballot in 1968 in October 15; added independent presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy to the Texas ballot in 1976 on September 30; and put the Harold Washington Party on the Cook County, Illinois ballot in 1992 on October 25, only two weeks before the general election.
On August 28, Emerson College Polls released this poll. Scroll down to “2024 General Election” to see results. The poll shows alternate results, depending on whether likely Green Party nominee Cornel West is in the race or not.