Rocky De La Fuente political campaign

Rocky 2016 LLC
Campaign	United States presidential election, 2016
Candidate	Rocky De La Fuente
Affiliation	Democratic Party American Delta Party Reform Party
Status	Active
Headquarters	San Diego, California[1]
Key people	Seven Wendroff (campaign treasurer)[1]
Receipts	US$7,351,270 (9/30/2016[1])
Slogan	We The People
Website
Official website

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Rocky De La Fuente ran a third-party campaign for the presidency of the United States in the 2016 election. De La Fuente had sought the Democratic Party's nomination during their presidential primaries. De La Fuente's campaign did not win a single delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, but he came in fourth by total votes received. De La Fuente founded the American Delta Party, and ran as its presidential nominee with running mate Michael Steinberg. He was also nominated as the presidential nominee of the Reform Party which has ballot access in Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi.^[2]

Democratic primary campaign

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De La Fuente filed his candidacy for President of the United States with the Federal Election Commission, filing as a Democrat. He identifies as a progressive Democrat. He says he was inspired to run after becoming dissatisfied with the slate of candidates, especially Donald Trump, whom he accuses of alienating large segments of the population.^{[1][11][12][13]}

On immigration, De La Fuente supports a path to citizenship and is against the wall proposed by Donald Trump.^[14]

Below is a table of the results of primaries in which De La Fuente competed during the Democratic primaries. The total number of votes De La Fuente received can be found in the Votes column. The rank in which De La Fuente came among candidates/ballot options can be found in the Place column.

De La Fuente at the Lesser-Known Candidates Presidential Forum

Map representing the ballot access of De La Fuente's Democratic Primary campaign

  On primary ballot

  On caucus ballot

  Write-in

  Not on ballot

De La Fuente seen talking to Jorge Ramos at the venue of the Iowa Brown and Black Forum

A.^ As a write-in.

Third-party general election campaign

Ballot access for the American Delta and Reform Party

  On ballot

  Lawsuit pending

  Write-in

  Not on ballot

De La Fuente founded the American Delta Party as a vehicle to continue his campaign into the general election as a third-party candidate.^[65][66][67] His running mate was Michael Steinberg of Florida.^[68] On August 8, 2016, De La Fuente was named as the presidential nominee of the Reform Party.^[69]

De La Fuente gained ballot access to 147 electoral votes in 20 states (Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming).^[70] He qualified as a write-in candidate in Arizona, California, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Washington, and West Virginia.^{[71][72][73][74]}

Campaign finances

Detailed below are the Federal Elections Commission-filed finances of Rocky 2016 LLC as of August 31, 2016.^[75]

Polls

De La Fuente's general election campaign has seen limited inclusion in polls.

Nevada - Five-way race

2016 Senate campaign

On June 20, 2016, De La Fuente paid the $10,440 qualifying fee to run for the Democratic nomination of the 2016 Senate election in Florida. He competed with Patrick Murphy, Alan Grayson, Pam Keith, and Reginald Luster for the nomination.^[79][80] Murphy won the nomination; De La Fuente came in fourth place out of five candidates, receiving 60,606 votes (5.38% of the overall vote).

References

External links

• Rocky 2016 campaign website
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Columnist Dave Barry on meeting De la Fuente
• "De La Fuente: The man challenging Clinton, Sanders". WOOD-TV. 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-03-05.