Atlanta's Chase Oliver wins Libertarian presidential nomination

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Chase Oliver wins the Libertarian nomination for president in May 2024.

Credit: Chase Oliver for President

Atlanta political activist Chase Oliver secured the Libertarian Party presidential nomination at the libertarian convention last weekend despite appearances by former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy who is running as an Independent. Nine other candidates were in the running for the nomination. 

Oliver’s campaign is directly appealing to Gen Z voters under 30.

“This is about not just the short-term gains that we can make in 2024, but also about how, long-term, we can build our party to be sustainable in the long run for the next generation,” Oliver said. He said he hopes that Gen Z will be more open to a third-party presidential candidate than other generations. 

Oliver ran for Senate in 2022 against Sen. Raphael Warnock and former University of Georgia football star Herschel Walker and for Congress in 2020. He has vocally opposed the construction of Atlanta’s police training center, and advocates for criminal justice reform. 

"The city of Atlanta is the perfect example of libertarianism in action, because there are so many different types of people from different walks of life, different base backgrounds, different personal backgrounds, and yet we seem to be able to get along pretty well as a city for the most part," he said.