A month after independent House member Justin Amash said he was considering a candidacy for president, he said he would not run.
, former Vice President Joe Biden, who many of the so-called Never-Trumpers have said they would back.Amash brushed aside those concerns. But with the Libertarian Party set to hold its presidential nominating convention in Austin, Texas, beginning next Thursday, Amash decided to drop his presidential aspirations altogether while saying he plans to remain a member of the Libertarian Party.
It was not clear that Amash was a shoo-in for the Libertarian nomination anyway, with former California Superior Court Judge Jim Gray, who ran as the party's vice presidential nominee in 2012, and lawyer Jacob Hornberger, who founded the Future of Freedom Foundation, a group that advocates for smaller government and free markets, among the front-runners.
Former Sand Lake Village President Tom Norton is also running for the GOP nod. On the Democratic side, Hillary Scholten, who worked at the Department of Justice under President Barack Obama, is running for the nomination.
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