Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in the raucous crowd at the Libertarian Party’s national convention Saturday night, a contrast to the adulation he received at rallies from his fervently loyal supporters. obvious change.
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presidential candidate Donald Trump He was booed and heckled by many in the raucous crowd at the Liberal Party’s national convention on Saturday night, a marked change from the adulation he received at rallies from fervently loyal supporters.
Liberals who believe in limited government and individual freedoms have accused Trump, a Republican, of rushing a COVID-19 vaccine during his presidency and not doing more to prevent public health restrictions on unvaccinated people during the pandemic.
When Trump took the podium in Washington, he was met with loud boos and jeers. A small section of the crowd, Trump’s supporters, cheered him on.
Shortly before he appeared, a member of the Liberal Party shouted: “Donald Trump should take a bullet!”
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the hostile reception.
In 2020, liberals received just 1.2% of the national vote, or about 1.8 million votes, but the November election may hinge on tens of thousands of votes in just a handful of battleground states, so Trump is looking to take away some of it author’s support.
Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also spoke at Friday’s convention, hoping to gain support.
Libertarian Party Chairwoman Angela McArdle ruled Sunday that Trump is ineligible to be the party’s presidential candidate because he has not filed nomination papers.
“The reason I didn’t file for the Libertarian nomination is because I would absolutely get it if I wanted it (everyone could see by the enthusiasm of the crowd last night!), and the fact is, as the Republican nominee, I’m not Allowing nominations from other parties,” Trump said on “Truth Society.”
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Trump, who was president from 2017 to 2021, immediately highlighted his total income during his speech on Saturday 88 felony charges He faces four federal and state indictments.
“If I wasn’t a liberal before, I am now,” he said Saturday. He denounced the president’s administration Joe Biden, his challenger November 5 election In a rematch, Biden’s fellow Democrats are seen as part of the “rise of left-wing fascism.”
Trump is trying to appeal to liberals, who have more in common with Republican policy positions than Democrats on issues such as taxes and the size of government, in what is expected to be a close election.
“We shouldn’t be fighting each other,” he added. He asked liberals to work with him to defeat Biden, a call that was met with boos by many, although the vast majority of the crowd strongly opposed Biden and his government.
Trump’s appearance at the liberal rally was unusual for a Republican White House candidate and showed how seriously he and his campaign take threats from third-party candidate Kennedy, who has long opposed vaccines and mandates . Kennedy was quickly ruled out of the party’s presidential nomination on Sunday.
Trump has been stepping up his attacks on Kennedy, who ran as an independent, recently calling him a “fake” anti-vaccination supporter.
Kennedy addressed the party on social media on Sunday, writing that “while we may not agree on all downstream issues, our core values of peace, free speech and civil liberties make us natural allies.”
Polls show that Kennedy will take away votes from Trump and Biden, but it is unclear which major party candidate will be more hurt by Kennedy’s entry into the White House.
Liberal organizers said Biden was also invited to speak at the convention but declined to attend.
“The Liberal Party has a huge role to play. If we come together, we will be unstoppable,” Trump said to applause and jeers.
Trump was met with boos and jeers when he said he was a “guy who doesn’t even want to be a liberal” and that liberals should support him.
Undeterred, Trump teased the crowd that if they didn’t support him, they would continue to gain support from a small percentage of the electorate in the national election.
He promised to install a liberal in his cabinet if he won the election, but was met with calls of “nonsense”.
One of Trump’s promises did draw loud applause. The case of Ross Ulbricht, who is serving a life sentence for creating and running the Silk Road website that allowed users to secretly buy and sell drugs and other illegal products, is a rallying cry for liberals.
Liberals believe Ulbricht’s 2015 ruling represented government and judicial overreach. In front of a crowd holding signs that read “Free Ross,” Trump promised to commute Ulbricht’s sentence if he returned to the White House.
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