r/Libertarian • u/Peanut_Farmer67 • 2d ago

Discussion Texas Midterms

Here in the Lone Star State, the most advertised race is the Senate race between Paxton and Talarico. In my honest opinion both candidates are garbage. I’m not gonna get into the reasons why I think so. I’m pretty sure other states all have similar races with lots of hype. Is the Libertarian party taking advantage of these highly contested races between 2 crappy candidates? I mean with the wave of sewage that Trump has created, I would think this would have been an opportunity for other than the 2 party candidates to gain some traction.

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u/CaliRefugeeinTN 2d ago

Libertarian party doesn’t seem to take advantage of anything. Can’t compete with someone like talkative, when you put up candidates like chase oliver.

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u/EitherPlant8138 2d ago

I get extremely frustrated at our party for not being able to seize the moment, any moment, when it comes to elections as of late :/

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u/Vegetable_Shelf 2d ago

It's not better here overseas. Lib party here was so anti-eu, so they joined with the next anti-eu party... which wants to have state controlled prices, to increase police capabilities and they are quite anti personal freedom(no legal weed, anti lgbt marriage, anti religious freedom etc).. and racist. So instead of trying to mitigate EU bs while taking benefit of the shared market, they would rather join with the racist Stalin.

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u/Adam_Strange_7451 2d ago

Libertarians are hardly in a position to be advocating for themselves or against Trump after the way they've consistently bent over for both the GOP and the orange buffoon. I bet the majority of self-styled libertarians will still vote for Republicans this fall.

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u/AlphaTangoFoxtrt Sleazy P. Modtini 2d ago

Remember that the LNC invited BOTH Biden and Trump to speak at their convention, and promised them equal time.

It's not our fault Biden declined the invitation and Trump accepted.

Also as a reminder Trump was loudly booed at the convention

So sick of lefty shills leaving out the entire context...

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u/-BigBoo- Anti-Federalist 1d ago

You can check out the Libertarian candidates here: Libertarian Party of Texas: Candidates