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   Trump booed at Libertarian convention   
      
      
   Donald Trump was booed repeatedly during an appearance at the Libertarian   
   Party's national convention on Saturday as he asked members for their   
   support.   
      
   Mr Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, told the party's   
   delegates to unite with him to beat Democrat Joe Biden.   
      
   "We must work together," he said. "Combine with us. You have to combine   
   with us."   
      
   The request was met with vigorous jeers from the Libertarian party members,   
   gathered in Washington to pick their White House nominee.   
      
   Libertarians, who favour small government and individual freedom, typically   
   lean to the right on issues like federal spending and gun rights.   
      
   But Mr Trump's invitation to the convention divided the party, with many   
   members decrying his Covid-19 policies while in office, as well as the   
   national debt accrued under his watch.   
      
   Despite the icy welcome, the Republican pressed on with his half-hour   
   speech, saying he'd come "to extend a hand of friendship" and pledging to   
   include a Libertarian in his cabinet if elected.   
      
   Many in the crowd heckled in disbelief.   
      
   He claimed that much of his past record was libertarian, using examples of   
   tax cuts and the defunding of federal equality programmes.   
      
   The former president also tried humour, saying his four criminal   
   indictments had convinced him to join forces with the party.   
      
   "If I wasn't a Libertarian before, I sure as hell am a Libertarian now," he   
   said.   
      
   Getty Images Libertarian delegates hold up signs protesting Donald Trump   
      
   Not everyone in the crowd could be won over.   
      
   Delegates joined in chants of "End the Fed" - a common refrain among   
   Libertarians who oppose the Federal Reserve.   
      
   One person holding a sign that said "No wannabe dictators" was removed by   
   security.   
      
   Mr Trump, used to speaking before large crowds of adoring supporters,   
   appeared visibly frustrated and took to mocking the crowd before him.   
      
   "Only do that if you want to win," Mr Trump said of supporting him for   
   president. "If you want to lose, don't do that. Keep getting your 3% every   
   four years."   
      
   Libertarians have typically earned around 3% of the popular vote in past US   
   presidential elections.   
      
   But with such a close race between Mr Trump and President Joe Biden, allies   
   of both candidates have expressed concern about third-party threats,   
   including that of independent candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, who gave his   
   own Libertarian convention speech on Friday.   
   'We're not going to vote for them'   
      
   Arielle Shack, a Libertarian voter, said she had travelled to the   
   convention from New Jersey to show her opposition to allowing Mr Kennedy   
   and Mr Trump to speak.   
      
   "We don't want people that are not Libertarians here. If they don't have   
   our principles, we're not going to vote for them," Shack told the BBC's   
   news partner CBS.   
      
   Michael Reeves, a Libertarian delegate from Daphne, Alabama said he was   
   "disappointed" by Mr Trump's first term in the White House.   
      
   "I thought he had an opportunity to really make some changes in DC, and he   
   didn't," Mr Reeves said. "The best we can say is that he didn't start any   
   new wars, and that's a pretty low bar."   
      
   He added that both Democrats and Republicans are moving the country towards   
   a "more collectivist and authoritarian state".   
      
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