Jonathan Realz
Jonathan Realz (independent) ran for election for Vice President of the United States. Realz lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Biography
Jonathan Realz's career experience includes working as an actor.[1]
Elections
2024
Vice presidency
Former President Donald Trump (R) won the November 5, 2024, presidential election.
Presidential election, 2024
Candidate/Running mate |
% |
Popular votes |
Electoral votes |
||
| ✔ |
 
| Donald Trump/J.D. Vance (R) |
49.8
|
77,303,568 | 312 |
 
| Kamala D. Harris/Tim Walz (D) |
48.3
|
75,019,230 | 226 | |
 | Jill Stein (multiple running mates) (G) |
0.6
|
861,164 | 0 | |
 
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr./Nicole Shanahan (Independent) |
0.5
|
756,393 | 0 | |
 
| Chase Oliver/Mike ter Maat (L) |
0.4
|
650,138 | 0 | |
 
| Claudia De La Cruz/Karina Garcia (Party for Socialism and Liberation) |
0.1
|
165,191 | 0 | |
 
| Cornel West/Melina Abdullah (Independent) |
0.1
|
81,084 | 0 | |
 
| Peter Sonski/Lauren Onak (American Solidarity Party) |
0.0
|
41,853 | 0 | |
 
| Randall Terry/Stephen E. Broden (Constitution Party) |
0.0
|
41,290 | 0 | |
 
| Shiva Ayyadurai/Crystal Ellis (Independent) |
0.0
|
28,399 | 0 | |
 
| Richard Duncan/Mitchell Preston Bupp (Independent) |
0.0
|
12,805 | 0 | |
 
| Joel Skousen/Rik Combs (Constitution Party) |
0.0
|
12,786 | 0 | |
 
| Jay Bowman/De Bowman (Independent) |
0.0
|
5,971 | 0 | |
| Christopher Garrity/Cody Ballard (Independent) |
0.0
|
5,294 | 0 | |
 
| Joseph Kishore/Jerry White (Socialist Equality Party) |
0.0
|
4,650 | 0 | |
|
| Rachele Fruit (multiple running mates) (Socialist Workers Party) |
0.0
|
4,118 | 0 | |
| Mattie Preston/Shannel Conner (Godliness, Truth, Justice) |
0.0
|
2,857 | 0 | |
 | Lucifer Everylove (no running mate) (Unaffiliated) |
0.0
|
2,653 | 0 | |
 
| Blake Huber/Andrea Denault (Approval Voting Party) |
0.0
|
2,196 | 0 | |
 
| Michael Wood/John G. Pietrowski (Prohibition Party) |
0.0
|
1,144 | 0 | |
 
| Vermin Supreme/Jonathan Realz (Independent) |
0.0
|
914 | 0 | |
 
| Laura Ebke/Trisha Butler (Liberal Party) |
0.0
|
859 | 0 | |
 
| William P. Stodden/Stephanie H. Cholensky (Socialist Party) |
0.0
|
364 | 0 | |
 
| Robert Wells Jr./Tony Jones (Independent) |
0.0
|
359 | 0 | |
| Other write-in votes |
0.2
|
235,673 | 0 | ||
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Total votes: 155,240,953
0 states have not been called. |
2022
See also: Alabama's 2nd Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Alabama District 2
Incumbent Barry Moore defeated Phyllis Harvey-Hall and Jonathan Realz in the general election for U.S. House Alabama District 2 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Barry Moore (R) | 69.1 | 137,460 |
 | Phyllis Harvey-Hall (D)  | 29.2 | 58,014 | |
| Jonathan Realz (L) | 1.7 | 3,396 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 91 | ||
| Total votes: 198,961 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Alabama District 2
Phyllis Harvey-Hall defeated Vimal Patel in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Alabama District 2 on May 24, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Phyllis Harvey-Hall | 68.8 | 16,884 |
 | Vimal Patel | 31.2 | 7,667 | |
| Total votes: 24,551 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Terell Anderson (D)
- Jack Slate (D)
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Barry Moore advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. House Alabama District 2.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jeff Coleman (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Jonathan Realz completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Realz's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Professional, practical, and sensible. These are all adjectives which could be used to describe Jonathan Realz, if he ever aspired to the level of banality of the common politician. Instead, Mr. Realz has chosen to distinguish himself as a free thinker unconstrained by the shackles of the two party system.
Working tirelessly towards the pursuit of liberty, Mr. Realz served as Vice-Chair of the Libertarian Party of Alabama and uses connections in the entertainment industry to reach average people with a mainstream, unifying, and accessible message of Liberty and Justice for All.- We do not need to be ruled over. We need representation that reflects our values as Americans.
- Cannabis Prohibition has been a massive failure and is hurting our already dying economy.
- All individuals have the right to be who they want to be, live how they want to live, love who they want to love, as long as they don't forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose.
Without unnecessary enforcement of laws that criminalize a victim-less act, many tragic incidents involving police officers can be avoided. For this reason, we must end the process of arresting and prosecuting those whose actions create no victim. Among these actions are drug possession, sex work, gambling and working without documentation or government licensing.
My second job (first real job) was working at WGMK "Oldies Radio" as a board operator. I worked there for 4 years and eventually moved my way up to an on air position.
We have gone so deep into debt as a country and this has completely devalued the US Dollar. It is imperative that we remedy this and it will take a multi-prong approach, including cutting back on enforcement of victimless crimes, legalizing competitive currency, and massive reduction in foreign interventionism.
I do believe there are some lessons that could come from the playbooks of Justin Amash, Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Thomas Massie.
I said, "If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip. Which, according to your own very latest government Pentagon spending figures, will more than make up the difference." - Emo Philips
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Campaign website
Realz's campaign website stated the following:
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PRINCIPLES FREE YOURSELF We challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual. All individuals have the right to be who they want to be, live how they want to live, love who they want to love, as long as they don't forceably interfere with the equal right of others to live in whatever manner they choose. Governments throughout history have regularly operated on the opposite principle. The ruling class has no right to tell you how to live or who to love, and has no right to control your labor or the products thereof. Liars, theives, and cronies have used the levers of power to make it nearly impossible for people like you and I to succeed without reliance on them. They redraw their districts and restrict your choices on election day all in the name of power. They do not serve us. Together we take our power back.
YOU OWN YOURSELF You sell your time, body, and labor, and you own the products thereof. What you do with your body is your choice, as long as it doesn’t violate the body autonomy of others. No one has a right to tell you what you can or can not choose to do for an honest living. Your home is an extension of yourself. Paying a ruling class for the right to live is inexcusable and an immoral societal system that only favors the upper class. No one has the right to harm or steal from you. No one has the right to harm, pollute, damage, or steal from your home. No one has the right to secretly poison your air, water, food, land, or body. In order for society to prosper, perpetual debt slavery must be abolished. State sanctioned, corporatist violations of body autonomy must not stand. You have rights that other individuals, groups, and governments may not violate under any circumstance. All people are born with certain inherent, irrevocable, human rights. We condemn bigotry as irrational and repugnant. Governments can not deny human rights based upon sex, wealth, ethnicity, creed, age, national origin, personal habits, political preference, or sexual orientation. Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the government’s treatment of you in marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration, employment or military service. The Government does not have the authority to define, promote, license, or restrict personal relationships, regardless of the number of participants. Consenting adults should be free to choose their own sexual practices and personal relationships. The right to self ownership must be restored. We seek to build a world where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power. Together we seek nothing more nor less than a world set free in our lifetime. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of your rights, it is your right to alter or to abolish it. For these reasons, in order to secure our human rights we must [resist] all rulers.
YOU ARE NOT GOVERNMENT PROPERTY YOU ARE NOT A SERVANT TO THE RULING CLASS. Have you ever wondered what happened to your money during the pandemic? Every year, more and more of your money has been funneled directly to large corporations and special interests. During the 2020 pandemic, we watched the mega-rich get richer while everyone else was told not to go to work. We were forced to shut down our small businesses while the mega-corporations were allowed to keep their doors open. Our government gave billions and billions of dollars to Big Tech, Big Oil, and the Wall Street Giants without the knowledge and approval of the people. Our government has created a predatory national banking monopoly that transfers money from the people into the hands of the mega-rich. They remove the purchasing power from our money while the average person struggles to make ends meet. No matter how much we work or how hard we work, we can never get ahead in this predatory system. The government will simply create more money out of thin air to loan it to the people at astronomical interest rates. If you fail to pay it back, they will take everything from you. They will take your house, your car, your land and force you to watch as they sell it for a 100% profit! We didn’t “lose” our homes, the government’s banking monopoly took our homes from us. To add insult to injury, what they won’t tell you is that the money they gave you never existed in the first place! It’s time to stand up and say that enough is enough. We will not let ourselves be exploited by this predatory banking system anymore.
END QUALIFIED IMMUNITY RESTORE JUSTICE. DEFEND RIGHTS. Qualified Immunity protects government officials (including police officers) when they abuse the authority they are given. All of our public servants who are given authority over others should always be held to the highest of standards. Without unnecessary enforcement of laws that criminalize a victim-less act, many tragic incidents involving police officers can be avoided. For this reason, we must end the process of arresting and prosecuting those whose actions create no victim. Among these actions are drug possession, sex work, gambling and working without documentation or government licensing. The drug war, qualified immunity, no-knock warrants, over policing, and other misguided policies perpetuate a violent system where human behavior is criminalized and human life is not valued.
GUN CONTROL IS PEOPLE CONTROL The people they want to control most are the working class, the marginalized, and people of color. They have been using gun restrictions as a tool of oppression for centuries. I support no regulation on arming oneself. The right to bear arms is a defense mechanism against anyone who would infringe upon your rights, including the government.[2] |
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| —Jonathan Realz's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 22, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Jonathan 4 Congress, “Home,” accessed September 10, 2022
