Jo Jorgensen
Jo Jorgensen (Libertarian Party) ran for election for President of the United States. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Jorgensen also ran for election to the U.S. House to represent South Carolina's 4th Congressional District. She did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 3, 2020.
Jorgensen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Jorgensen won the Libertarian Party presidential nomination on May 23, 2020.[1]
Biography
Jorgensen is a senior lecturer in psychology at Clemson University. She holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Clemson, which she received in 2002. She earned a B.S. in psychology from Baylor University in 1979 and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University in 1980.[2]
Outside of academia, Jorgensen's professional experience includes working as a marketing representative for IBM and starting her own software and computer technology sales company.[3] She has also founded a business consulting company and co-founded the software duplication company DigiTech, Inc.[2][4]
Jorgensen was the Libertarian Party's vice presidential nominee with presidential nominee Harry Browne in 1996.[3]
Elections
2020
Presidency
- See also: Presidential candidates, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) won the presidential election on November 3, 2020. Biden received 306 electoral votes and President Donald Trump (R) received 232 electoral votes. In the national popular vote, Biden received 81.2 million votes and Trump received 74.2 million votes.
| Jo Jorgensen (L) presidential ballot access by state | ||
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| State | Status | % of vote received |
| Alabama | Lost |
1%
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| Alaska | Lost |
2.4%
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| Arizona | Lost |
1.5%
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| Arkansas | Lost |
1%
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| California | Lost |
1%
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| Colorado | Lost |
1.6%
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| Connecticut | Lost |
1.1%
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| Delaware | Lost |
0.9%
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| District of Columbia | Lost |
0.5%
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| Florida | Lost |
0.6%
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| Georgia | Lost |
1.2%
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| Hawaii | Lost |
0.9%
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| Idaho | Lost |
1.8%
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| Illinois | Lost |
1%
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| Indiana | Lost |
1.9%
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| Iowa | Lost |
1.1%
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| Kansas | Lost |
2.2%
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| Kentucky | Lost |
1.2%
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| Louisiana | Lost |
1%
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| Maine | Lost |
1.7%
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| Maryland | Lost |
1.1%
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| Massachusetts | Lost |
1.3%
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| Michigan | Lost |
1%
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| Minnesota | Lost |
1%
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| Mississippi | Lost |
0.6%
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| Missouri | Lost |
1.3%
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| Montana | Lost |
2.5%
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| Nebraska | Lost |
2.1%
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| Nevada | Lost |
1%
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| New Hampshire | Lost |
1.6%
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| New Jersey | Lost |
0.6%
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| New Mexico | Lost |
1.3%
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| New York | Lost |
0.7%
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| North Carolina | Lost |
0.8%
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| North Dakota | Lost |
2.6%
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| Ohio | Lost |
1.1%
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| Oklahoma | Lost |
1.5%
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| Oregon | Lost |
1.7%
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| Pennsylvania | Lost |
1.1%
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| Rhode Island | Lost |
0.9%
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| South Carolina | Lost |
1.1%
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| South Dakota | Lost |
2.6%
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| Tennessee | Lost |
0.9%
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| Texas | Lost |
1.1%
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| Utah | Lost |
2.5%
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| Vermont | Lost |
0.9%
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| Virginia | Lost |
1.4%
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| Washington | Lost |
1.9%
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| West Virginia | Lost |
1.3%
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| Wisconsin | Lost |
1.1%
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| Wyoming | Lost |
2%
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Libertarian presidential primary
The Libertarian Party selected Jo Jorgensen as its presidential nominee on May 23, 2020, during the Libertarian National Convention.[5] Spike Cohen was selected as the party's vice presidential nominee the next day.[6]
The convention was originally scheduled to take place May 21-25, 2020, in Austin, Texas.[7] Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the nomination portion of the national convention was held online May 22-24.[8][9]
Campaign themes
2020
Candidate Conversations
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Video for Ballotpedia
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jo Jorgensen completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Jorgensen's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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On Day One of a Jorgensen administration, I will pardon all 80,000 non-violent people imprisoned on federal drug charges. The War on Drugs has been a disaster, and has been used to target the poor and people of color, and to ruin lives that could have been salvaged. Neither Republicans or Democrats have the courage to change the status-quo. I will also use my pardon power to free whistleblowers who risked their liberty to expose corruption and abuse by government agencies. We can protect our communities without sacrificing freedom through failed initiatives like civil asset forfeiture, no-knock raids, qualified immunity, mass surveillance, and the War on Drugs. The land of the free will no longer lead the world in incarceration.
Both my opponents have been raising taxes, accelerating government spending, and adding trillions to the nation’s debt. Both have, by their records, continued U.S. military expansion. Both failed to make meaningful changes to immigration, criminal justice, and drug war policies which continually put Americans at odds with law enforcement and exacerbate inequalities.
Politicians and special interests who will endorse my opponents want to keep your taxes high so they can profit from business-as-usual in big government. Our support will come from everyday workers, taxpayers and small business owners who desperately need relief from high taxes and red tape.
No one in Washington has the courage to oppose our non-stop involvement in expensive, unnecessary, and deadly foreign wars. I have pledged to turn America into one giant Switzerland—armed and neutral. Democrats and Republicans in the federal government have needlessly mired us in conflicts to appease special interests, including the Military industrial complex. These wars have caused the injury or death of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers and millions of innocent people around the world. They have wasted trillions of tax dollars and created trillions of dollars of burdensome federal government debt. As your president, I will immediately begin the process of closing military bases and bringing our troops home to their families.
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Note: Jorgensen submitted the above survey responses to Ballotpedia on October 1, 2020.
See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ YouTube, "LNC Convention Day 2," May 23, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Clemson College of Behavioral Health & Social Sciences, "Faculty and Staff Profile: Jo Jorgensen," accessed May 29, 2020
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jo Jorgensen, "About Dr. Jo Jorgensen," accessed May 29, 2020
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on September 19, 2020
- ↑ YouTube, "LNC Convention Day 2," May 23, 2020
- ↑ YouTube, "LNC Convention Webinar Day 3," May 24, 2020
- ↑ Libertarian Convention, "Home," accessed October 21, 2019
- ↑ 2020 Libertarian National Convention, "Where," accessed May 21, 2020
- ↑ 2020 Libertarian National Convention, "Schedule," accessed May 21, 2020
