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Claudi De la Cruz
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Photo from the web
Chase Oliver
Liberatarian Party
Photo from Oliver’s
website
De La Cruz is a political
organizer, pastor in the
United Church of Christ and a
co-founder of the
People’s Forum, a facility in New
York that describes
itself as a “movement
incubator for working class and
marginalized
communities.”
De La Cruz supports a wide
range of leftist policies,
including single-payer health
care, reparations for Black
people and cutting a
majority of the military
budget.
Chase Oliver, a left-leaning
Libertarian who used to be a
Democrat, narrowly won his
party’s nomination in May. Mr.
Oliver said he became
politically active as an
opponent of the Iraq War. He
opposes Israel’s actions in Gaza
and wants to abolish the Federal
Reserve.
Oliver previously ran for
Senate in Georgia in 2022, and
received about 2 percent of the
vote, enough to force a runoff
between Senator
Raphael Warnock and
Herschel Walker.
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