As the Libertarian Party's vice presidential nominee, Cohen became the first Jewish vice presidential nominee of a political party since Joe Lieberman in 2000. Despite Jorgensen having expressed a preference for John Monds to be her running mate over Cohen and Ken Armstrong, Cohen defeated Monds with 533 delegate votes to Monds' 472 after three rounds of voting. Īfter Supreme lost the Libertarian presidential nomination to Jo Jorgensen on May 23, 2020, Cohen remained in the race for the party's vice presidential nomination. Main article: Jo Jorgensen 2020 presidential campaignĬohen ran as the proposed running mate of presidential candidate Vermin Supreme in the 2020 Libertarian presidential primaries, and was actively involved in campaigning. 2020 vice presidential campaign Cohen speaking at a vice presidential campaign rally in Tempe, Arizona He is the co-host of The Muddied Waters of Freedom, and the host of My Fellow Americans. This culminated with him becoming the co-owner of, and a podcaster on, Muddied Waters Media. īy 2017, Cohen retired from web design to focus on Libertarian messaging, entertainment, and activism. In 2016, after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Cohen sold his web design business and turned his focus to libertarian activism. In 1998, at the age of 16, Cohen began learning web design and subsequently started a profitable business within a few years. He purports to have chosen the nickname "Spike" at the age of 3, after the character from the 1986 children's film My Little Pony: The Movie. Cohen's father is Jewish, and he was raised as a Messianic Jew, including having a bar mitzvah. Early life Ĭohen was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1982. He was the Libertarian Party's nominee for vice president of the United States in 2020, serving as Jo Jorgensen's running mate. Jeremy " Spike" Cohen (born June 28, 1982) is an American libertarian political activist, entrepreneur, and podcaster.
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