'Panderer': Libertarians jeer Trump at their convention

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump drew cheers when he committed to pardoning Ulbricht on his first day in office, and again when he spoke of ending foreign "regime change" wars -- one of the few policy planks he shares with Libertarians.
55% : When Utah Sen. Mike Lee, a libertarian-leaning Republican, asked people to support Trump at the end of his opening remarks, he was met with a round of boos.
51% : But the evening was dominated by animosity toward Trump and his allies.
49% : But Trump didn't mention Kennedy at all in his speech.
48% : "You should nominate Trump for president only if you want to win.
40% : Trump asked the crowd, which proceeded to pelt him with jeers.
40% : "If he thinks he is going to win our nomination, he's more delusional than I thought," said Chase Oliver, one of the presidential candidates for the Libertarian Party, at a press conference after Trump spoke.
39% : "If we unite, we are unstoppable," Trump told a crowd split between Libertarians and Trump supporters.
35% : The raucous reception laid bare the difficulties confronting Trump in his effort to expand his base and cut off a third-party threat, not only from Libertarians, but also from independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
29% : After Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Rectenwald said in opening remarks that Libertarians "have major differences" with Trump and that the former president had "violated the basic premises of libertarianism," he was confronted by a pro-Trump chant from the back of the room.
24% : If Donald Trump came to the Libertarian National Convention to make peace on Saturday, it could hardly have gone worse.
24% : "The libertarians in attendance didn't want to hear it, as hecklers chucked insults at Trump all night.
20% : Trump was met with a chant to "debate" Libertarian candidates, and every time Trump fans in the room tried to start a "We want Trump" chant, libertarians yelled "End the Fed," referring to the Federal Reserve.
19% : As Trump spoke, hundreds of delegates held "Free Ross" signs, referring to Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
17% : Trump did extend a few olive branches to the third party, pledging to commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht -- the creator of Silk Road, an online marketplace for illegal drugs and other illicit goods -- and appoint a Libertarian to his cabinet and senior government roles.

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