Johnson formally announced his candidacy for the 2016 Libertarian presidential nomination , in an interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business Network program '' Coast to Coast '' , on January 6 , 2016 . He subsequently began participating in a series of debates with the other candidates seeking the Libertarian nomination , held at state LP conventions around the country leading up the Libertarian National Convention over Memorial Day weekend in Orlando , Florida . On March 3 , 2016 , Johnson addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington D.C. , touting himself as the third-party option for anti-Trump Republicans , and saying that the Libertarian Party would be the only third party able to place its nominee on the ballot in all 50 states in 2016 due to ballot access hurdles
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