Libertarians turned out for Trump - Washington Examiner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The deal paid dividends at the ballot box for Trump, and all signs point to several major wins for liberty lovers in the coming years.
47% : No former or future president had appeared at a third-party convention in the past, but in a stroke of what turned out to be political genius, Trump was willing to face a hostile audience and make multiple concessions to libertarians in order to expand his coalition heading into the general election.
43% : Trump pledged to give libertarians a few of their bucket list items in exchange for their votes.
39% : Comic Dave Smith, author Tom Woods, radio host Austin Petersen, and Libertarian Party Chairwoman Angela McCardle all threw their weight behind Trump, a decision undoubtedly made easier by the nomination of left-libertarian Chase Oliver by the nation's third-largest party.
37% : Trump won the so-called blue wall states, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, by an average of 1.1%, meaning the libertarian vote may very well have been the difference between a clean sweep of the swing states and an Electoral College victory by Vice President Kamala Harris.
28% : In an apparent attempt to change course fiscally from the policies of his first term, Trump has pledged to bring Tesla CEO Elon Musk into the fold to head a yet-to-be-created Department of Government Efficiency, focused on identifying waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal budget.
23% : Oliver performed worse than any libertarian candidate for president since 2008, finishing fifth behind Green Party nominee Jill Stein and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who dropped out of the race and urged his supporters to vote for Trump.
10% : Trump announced Saturday night that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, both of whom are hawkish on foreign policy, would not be welcomed back.

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