Who is Joe Jorgensen and why her influence on the 2020 elections could be decisive

Joe Jorgensen has no real chance of winning. But political scientists believe that she could have influenced the determination of the winner in this presidential race. Tells about it The Indian Express.

Photo: video frame YouTube / Jo Jorgensen for President 2020

Joanne Marie (Joe) Jorgensen won 1,2% of the vote nationwide (about 1,8 million) and, ranked third behind Joe Biden and Donald Trump, took away a substantial number of decisive votes from each of the two leaders in key states, although and did not win a single electoral vote.

Libertarian Party candidate Jo Jorgensen is the only female presidential candidate in all 50 U.S. states and has the second-most votes for Libertarian candidates in her party's 49-year history.

Who is Joe Jorgensen

Dr. Joe Jorgensen, senior professor of psychology at Clemson University in South Carolina, is the first female presidential candidate to be nominated by the Libertarian Party. The 63-year-old woman and her partner, entrepreneur Jeremy Cohen, ran in general elections in all 50 states, as well as in Washington, DC.

Jorgensen is no stranger to politics. She first ran in 1992 in a constituency in South Carolina, where she received about 2,2% of the vote. In 1996, she was nominated for the vice-president of the Libertarian Party alongside then-candidate Harry Brown.

In May of this year, she was officially nominated as the party's presidential candidate. Shortly thereafter, she announced on Twitter that she would "repurpose" Hillary Clinton's 2016 election slogan "I'm with her" and use it as her own. This slogan has become popular on social media again.

A longtime critic of the U.S. two-party system, Jorgensen also opposes mass incarceration, foreign military operations and large federal programs. In a video released by her campaign in April, she said her goal is to turn the US "into one giant Switzerland, armed and neutral." Dr. Jo said that if elected, she would bring home American military personnel from around the world and would also work to end foreign aid to other countries. She promised to eliminate the federal income tax.

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What party does she represent

The Libertarian Party, founded in 1971, has become the third largest political party after the Republicans and Democrats. According to ballotpedia.org, she has nominated a presidential candidate every year since 1972, but none of them have ever won more than 4 percent of the popular vote.

The Libertarian Party stands for a completely free market, small government, and civil liberties. According to the party's website, the party believes that all Americans should be "free, live their lives and pursue their interests as they see fit, as long as they do not harm others." The website also includes their "statement of principles" with the words: "We, members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the almighty state and defend individual rights."

In November 2020, the party won its first seat in any state's House of Representatives in nearly two decades when Marshall Burt was elected to the Wyoming House of Representatives.

“This is the fifth time in Libertarian Party history that a candidate running solely under the LP (Libertarian Party) label has been elected to the state legislature, and the first time in nearly 20 years,” the party said in a statement.

LP's last win in the state was in 2002 when Vermont Representative Neil Randall was re-elected to a second and final term in the state legislature.

Photo: video frame YouTube / Jo Jorgensen for President 2020

How Jorgensen performed in the 2020 US presidential election

In addition to defeating all third-party and independent candidates in all 50 states, Jorgensen's vote total in three key states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Nevada — exceeded the margin between Biden and Trump. Although the Democratic nominee ultimately carried both Wisconsin and Michigan in his favor, analysts say votes for Jorgensen could have swung the election either way.

In Georgia, Jorgensen received 1,2% of the vote, or 61 yeses. Trump and Biden are neck and neck in the otherwise Republican stronghold state, with just 269 votes the difference.

Jorgensen's performance in rural and western states is also noteworthy. She received 2,7% of the vote in Alaska and North Dakota and 2,6% in South Dakota, the Associated Press reported.

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Criticism of "useless voting"

The Libertarian Party is often criticized for "taking votes" away from the two major US parties - the Democratic and Republican. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and several others indicated that Jorgensen's 38 votes in the state could crush the margin between Trump and Biden.

In response to the statement, party officials said on Twitter, “Do you want libertarians to vote for you? Try to appoint someone who will not add trillions to the national debt, who will effectively end our foreign wars, bring the troops home and believe that the rights of all people should be protected. "

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