Far Right Party In California Will List Trump As Its Nominee On The Ballot

Donald Trump is awarded the AAA Five-Diamond Award for his Trump International Hotel & Tower in New York City. March 31, 2011. Credit: Dennis Van Tine/MediaPunch/IPX
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The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Donald Trump will be on the ballot not once, but twice in California.

Trump will be listed as both the Republican Party nominee and the nominee of the far right American Independent Party.

The American Independent Party is best known for supporting segregationist George Wallace in the 1968 election where he won five states, a feat that has not been replicated by any third party candidate since.

“We are the demographic that Trump is appealing to,” Markham Robinson, the secretary of the American Independent Party of California told the LA Times. “We are heeding the voice of our voters.”

The LA Times reported that Trump didn’t explicitly work to be nominated by the party or to be the first candidate in 80 years to be on the ballot for two parties, but Trump’s position on immigration– his proposal to build a wall and deport millions of undocumented immigrants– appealed to the party.

“Mr. Trump’s campaign did not seek the endorsement or nomination of
the American Independent Party,” Tim Clark, Trump’s state director, told the LA Times in an emailed statement.

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  1. so does this the voters in ca will be able to vote for trump twice?

  2. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    George Wallace was peanuts compared to the complete disaster Trump would be for America and the entire world.

  3. “We are heeding the voice of our voters.” said the leader of the far-right racist party in California.

    Literally, all of them sat in a Denny’s booth and decided. (And I mean that literally).

  4. Early voting which more and more makes the difference in the outcome is on the horizon in a number of states, and in CA it begins October 10. teamtrumpet better look at their calendar a little more closely. He cannot make up for lost ground though they think that pivot is just around the corner.

    Voting actually starts in less than six weeks, on Sept. 23 in Minnesota and South Dakota, the first of some 35 states and the District of Columbia that allow people to cast ballots at polling sites or by email before Nov. 8. Iowa is expected to have ballots ready by the end of September, as are Illinois and two other states.

    The electoral battlegrounds of Arizona and Ohio are to begin voting on Oct. 12, nearly four weeks before Election Day. And North Carolina and Florida will be underway before Halloween.

    @ncgirl741 Five times, 10 times, who knows?

  5. “We are the demographic that Trump is appealing to,” Markham Robinson, the secretary of the American Independent Party of California told the LA Times.

    There you have it, straight from the horse’s mouth. Could not be any clearer.

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