Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. each spoke over the weekend at the Libertarian Party convention, and MSNBC's John Heilemann said both presidential candidates had embarrassed themselves.
Neither candidate came away with the party's nomination, and while Kennedy's speech was met with a tepid response, Trump lashed out at a hostile crowd during his address, and the "Morning Joe" political analyst said neither made much of an impression.
"You have both the guys, both interlopers at the Libertarian convention in Washington," Heilemann said. "People are paying attention, obviously, because the election will be so close. Trump down there trying to get non-traditional, non-MAGA voters, he is appealing to them. Kennedy was seen as angling for something different, which was to actually get – really needing the Libertarian nomination because he would immediately get ballot access in 38 states. The Libertarian Party is the third-biggest political party in the country, Kennedy is trying to get on the ballots. Both made complete asses of themselves over the weekend. You saw Trump say, 'Make me your nominee,' right? That was on Saturday night, on Sunday morning when they went into session to actually decide who was going to be the Libertarian nominee, the chair started the day by saying, 'Trump can't be put into nomination, they didn't file the appropriate paperwork.' Immediately, Trump was tossed off. The campaign had not done, having begged for the endorsement the night before, for the nomination the night before, it turned out Trump couldn't even be nominated if anybody wanted to nominate him."
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"I'll tell you exactly how much they wanted to nominate him, though," Heilemann continued. "He got six write-in votes, putting him under 1 percent in the first round of voting. Kennedy, who was trying harder to get the nomination, got his name put in the nomination. He ended up getting a few more votes in that first round of voting, about 2 percent of the total. Also, he was eliminated from consideration."
"I will tell you what this says more than anything, and I know you'll know as a student of these things, what I mean when I say this, neither one of these guys is a libertarian," he added. "Whatever you think about libertarians, apparently, the libertarians saw they didn't want to nominate either of two dudes who have nothing to do with libertarianism."
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