'Swamp Creature!': Trump Gets Shouted Down as He Begs for Libertarian Nomination

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Minutes after Trump left the stage, McArdle announced a press conference with the Libertarian Party's actual candidates.
54% : As the crowd waited for Trump to appear, supporters in the audience could be heard fretting that there needed to be more of them.
51% : " The response was quieter than it had been when Trump was speaking.
50% : "A lot of people ask why I came to speak at this Libertarian convention," Trump said as he began his remarks.
48% : A chant of "We want Trump!" was quickly overpowered by one demanding to "End the Fed!" "We should not be fighting each other," Trump said soon after he took the stage.
47% : There were more boos when Trump urged the Libertarian Party to nominate him as its candidate.
44% : "The Libertarian Party can make a big difference," Trump promised the crowd Saturday, saying he would be "a true friend to Libertarians in the White House" before being booed again.
42% : When Trump talked about the government crushing citizens' rights, an audience member screamed, "You crushed my rights!"
42% : " Trump did sometimes earn cheers from the crowd, including when he talked about ending wars, pardoning Jan. 6 protesters, protecting cryptocurrency, denying money to schools with vaccine or mask mandates, and defunding diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
41% : In a close race with Biden, where polls consistently find the two men within a few points of each other, whether Trump earns Libertarians' votes could be a deciding factor.
37% : The formal program began with Mises Caucus-backed presidential candidate Michael Rectenwald roasting Trump and his leadership of Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to develop the COVID-19 vaccine.
33% : But in the days ahead of the speech, the party's decision to allow Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, to headline the Libertarian convention was a major point of contention, and on Saturday, the disagreement broke out into heated conflict.
27% : "None of us are great fans of Donald Trump," he said, provoking boos from the middle of the room, where McArdle had relegated most of the Trump supporters.
26% : "I'm curious to know how President Trump is going to defend his attacks on the Constitution when I meet him on the debating stage," Kennedy said, earning roars from the crowd.
26% : Kennedy told the convention Friday he had challenged Trump to a debate at the Libertarian convention, but that the former president had declined.
22% : They broke out as soon as he appeared, and never died down, marking one of the most negative receptions Trump has ever received.
5% : While red-hatted Trump supporters lined up outside the ballroom ahead of the former president's speech, one woman hurried by, her middle finger up, singing "Fuck Donald Trump.

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