Jo Jorgensen 2020 presidential campaign

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Jo Jorgensen for President
Campaign2020 Libertarian primaries
2020 U.S. presidential election
CandidateJo Jorgensen
Senior lecturer at Clemson University
Spike Cohen
Podcaster and businessman
AffiliationLibertarian Party
Status
  • Announced: November 2, 2019
  • Official nominee: May 23, 2020
HeadquartersGreenville, South Carolina[1]
ReceiptsUS$785,340.48[2] (June 30, 2020)
SloganBreak Free From Big Government[3]
The First Ones Free
Real Change for Real People[4]
I'm With Her[5]
She's With Us![6]
Let Her Speak[7]
Website
jo20.com

The 2020 presidential campaign of Jo Jorgensen was formally launched on November 2, 2019 at the South Carolina Libertarian Party convention.[8] Jorgensen had previously been the Libertarian Party's vice presidential nominee in 1996, when she ran on a ticket with author Harry Browne.[9] Currently a senior lecturer of psychology at Clemson University,[10] Jorgensen had owned a software company at the time of her 1996 vice presidential candidacy.[9]

Jorgensen's positions are typically described as being consistent with the Libertarian Party's platform.[11][12][13] Her campaign has received less media coverage than those of Gary Johnson, former Republican governor of New Mexico and Jorgensen's predecessor as the Libertarian Party's presidential nominee in 2012 and 2016. Her name recognition upon entering the race is also widely considered to have been lower than Johnson's.[12][13][14][15][16][17] Although Jorgensen is often described as appealing to the Libertarian Party's base, some in the party, such as her main primary opponent Future of Freedom Foundation founder Jacob Hornberger, have criticized her for perceived departures from libertarian ideology in exchange for mainstream appeal.[18]

The Libertarian Party experienced a competitive primary.[19] On May 23, at the virtual 2020 Libertarian National Convention, Jorgensen was selected as the party's 2020 presidential nominee after four rounds of voting by delegates.[20] She is the party's first female presidential nominee.[15] Podcaster Spike Cohen – Vermin Supreme's original running mate – was selected to be Jorgensen's running mate the next day, despite Jorgensen having expressed a preference for John Monds.[21][22]

Background

In 1996, Jorgensen was nominated by the Libertarian Party as its candidate for vice president in the 1996 election. The party's presidential nominee was free market writer and investment analyst Harry Browne.[23] The Browne/Jorgensen ticket received 485,798 votes (0.50% of the popular vote) in the general election, which was won by incumbent president Bill Clinton.[24][25]

Platform

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Jorgensen speaking at a rally in Scottsdale, Arizona, October 10, 2020

Healthcare and social security

Jorgensen supports a free-market healthcare system financed by individual spending accounts that could keep any savings, which she believes would increase healthcare providers' incentive to compete by meeting consumer demand for low-cost services.[26][27][28] She opposes single-payer healthcare, calling it "disastrous".[28]

Jorgensen supports replacing Social Security with individual retirement accounts.[29] In the final debate of the 2020 primaries, candidate Jacob Hornberger accused Jorgensen of "support[ing] the welfare state through Social Security and Medicare". In response, she called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme". She then expressed the desire to allow people to opt out of the program on her first day in office, while emphasizing the constitutional inability of a president to unilaterally end the program without Congress's support, as well as the need for the government to fulfill existing Social Security obligations.[18][30] Under Jorgensen's plan, those who opt out would put 6.2% of their payroll taxes in individual retirement accounts and receive prorated Social Security benefits for existing contributions as zero-coupon bonds for retirement.[31]

Criminal justice and drug policy

Jorgensen at a rally in Durham, North Carolina in 2020.

Jorgensen opposes federal civil asset forfeiture and qualified immunity.[32] She opposes the war on drugs and supports abolishing drug laws, promising to pardon all nonviolent drug offenders.[33] She has urged the demilitarization of police.[34]

Foreign policy and defense

Jorgensen opposes embargoes, economic sanctions, and foreign aid; she supports non-interventionism, armed neutrality, and the withdrawal of U.S. troops from abroad.[35][36][32]

Immigration, economics, and trade

Jorgensen calls for deregulation, arguing that it would reduce poverty.[37] She supports cutting government spending to reduce taxes.[38]

Jorgensen supports the freedom of American citizens to travel and trade, calls for the elimination of trade barriers and tariffs, and supports the repeal of quotas on the number of people who can legally enter the United States to work, visit, or reside.[39] In a Libertarian presidential primary debate, Jorgensen said she would immediately stop construction on President Donald Trump's border wall. During another primary debate she blamed anti-immigration sentiment on disproportionate media coverage of crimes by immigrants. She argued that immigration helps the economy and that the blending of cultures is beneficial.[40][41][42][43]

COVID-19

Jorgensen has characterized the U.S. government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic as overly bureaucratic and authoritarian, calling restrictions on individual behavior (such as stay-at-home orders) and corporate bailouts "the biggest assault on our liberties in our lifetime".[27][40][44]

Jorgensen opposes government mask mandates, considering mask-wearing a matter of personal choice. She argues that mask-wearing would be widely adopted without government intervention because market competition would drive businesses to adopt either mask-required or mask-optional policies, allowing consumers the freedom to choose their preferred environment. Jorgensen has invoked the analogy of dollar voting to argue that consumer preferences would shape businesses' policies on face masks in the absence of a government mandate.[45]

Primary campaign

Jorgensen's state-by-state performance in the primaries
  Jo Jorgensen
  Jacob Hornberger
  Vermin Supreme
  No preference
Main article: 2020 Libertarian Party presidential primaries

In the Libertarian primaries, Jorgensen placed second in terms of overall votes cast, behind Future of Freedom Foundation founder Jacob Hornberger. Jorgensen won a single primary prior to the Convention, in Nebraska, on May 12, 2020.[46] After Justin Amash entered and then exited the race Jacob Hornberger lost a significant number of votes and on the fourth round of balloting Jorgensen was nominated. She did not endorse anybody to be her running mate and after three ballots Spike Cohen was nominated. After her nomination, she went on to win the New Mexico primary on June 2, 2020, which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[47][48]

General election campaign

Ballot access

Ballot access by state
  On the ballot
  On the ballot pending official confirmation
  Not on the ballot

As of August 10, Jorgensen has achieved ballot access in 40 states and the District of Columbia.[49]

Endorsements

Main article: List of Jo Jorgensen 2020 presidential campaign endorsements

Jorgensen has received endorsements from many former Libertarian candidates in the 2020 race, including Jacob Hornberger, Justin Amash, Adam Kokesh and Vermin Supreme. She has also received endorsements from Peter Schiff, John Stossel, and Katherine Timpf, among others.

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External links

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