Jo Jorgensen is an American libertarian political activist and academic. She was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election. She finished third in the popular vote with about 1. 9 million votes, 1. 2% of the national total. She previously ran for vice president in the 1996 U.S. presidential election.
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Jo Jorgensen is an American libertarian political activist and academic. She was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election, in which she finished third in the popular vote with about 1. 9 million votes, 1. 2% of the national total. She previously ran for vice president in the 1996 U.S. presidential election, as Harry Browne’s running mate. She is a full-time lecturer of psychology at Clemson University. She has released a list of potential Supreme Court nominees in September 2020 in response to the vacancy on the Court created by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. Her supporters repurposed Hillary Clinton’s unofficial 2016 campaign slogan, \”I’m With Her\”, on Twitter that night and made national headlines.
She supports replacing Social Security with individual retirement accounts. She opposes single-payer healthcare, calling it “disastrous”. She opposes the war on drugs and supports abolishing drug laws, promising to pardon all nonviolent drug offenders. She also opposes the demilitarization of police and opposes federal civil asset forfeiture and forfeiture of qualified qualified civil asset assets. She received a Ph. D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Clemson University in 2002. She first ran for office in the 1992 United States House of Representatives election. She ran as a Libertarian to represent SC-04, in northwest South Carolina.
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