Fellow Libertarians, Vote Trump

But I go a step further and urge Libertarians to vote for Mr. Trump. Not all Libertarians—only those in swing states. Libertarians are too few to help him carry Massachusetts or California, so they might as well vote for Chase Oliver, our party’s nominee. And he’ll easily win Tennessee and Idaho without our help. But in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we could make the difference. Libertarian nominee Jo Jorgensen received roughly 50,000 votes in Arizona in 2020, when Mr. Trump lost the state by about 10,000 ballots.

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If we pull the lever for Mr. Trump in these swing states, we may get a slightly more libertarian president and help free Mr. Ulbricht. If we vote Libertarian everywhere else, we make a statement and help preserve our ballot access.

Some Libertarians find Mr. Trump unacceptable on grounds of principle. True, he is no libertarian, but Mr. Biden—the wokester, the socialist, the interventionist—is much further from us on the political-economic spectrum than Mr. Trump.

Ed Morrissey

I'd agree ... but of course, I'm not a Libertarian. I'm not a Republican these days either, a status that's easy to maintain in Texas, which doesn't require partisan registration for primary voting. But what I can do is choose the candidate closest to my own values in an election among those with a chance of prevailing, even if I'm not particularly fond of any of them. And for conservatives and Libertarians, this choice is obvious, especially in swing states. 

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