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It’s Weld’s move

After months of one of the most bizarre — and ugly — presidential campaigns in modern times, decision time has finally arrived. For American voters? Yes. But also for Bill Weld. The state’s quirky former governor reinvented himself earlier this year as a “Libertarian for life,” calling it a gift to be liberated from the […]

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Bail Weld?

Former governor William Weld, running for vice president, is apparently feeling liberated and it has little to do with his party affiliation. Weld, never one to hew to the party line regardless of his registration, has been more and more vocal about his goal in the presidential election and it’s coming at the expense of […]

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The Codcast: The Libertarian team of Johnson and Weld

Bill Weld, the Libertarian candidate for vice president, showed he’s still got it during a CNN town hall Wednesday night. The former Massachusetts governor was clear, concise, and controversial. He called Republican Donald Trump a “huckster” and suggested Hillary Clinton was a pal. “Real bond. Life long. No kidding,” he said. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian […]

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The return of Big Red

It’s an apt metaphor that the Libertarian Party is holding its convention next weekend in Orlando, Florida, the home of Disneyworld, because anyone who thinks the nominees for president and vice president have a snowball’s chance in the Bahamas of winning or even impacting the race is definitely living in a fantasy world. And that’s […]