More than 40 members of the Libertarian Party are leaving to join the Republican Liberty Caucus, an organization dedicated to promoting limited government and free markets, the Washington Examiner said.

“That’s the fight that is really going to matter to public policy at the federal level, to politics at the national level,” Mike ter Maat, who ran for vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 2024 and is joining the caucus, told the Examiner. “And that’s because the president will eventually leave, and that will leave a big vacuum, and the Republican Party needs to decide what it’s going to look like after that.”

Ter Maat told the Examiner he decided to leave the Libertarian Party after seeing it plagued by infighting and issues with getting ballot access. The party received less than 1% of the vote in the 2024 election.

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