Early political activity In 1986, Supreme joined the
Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament in protest of
nuclear weapons.
Presidential campaigns 2004 Supreme campaigned in the
Washington, D.C. presidential primary in
2004, where he received 149 votes.
2008 Supreme campaigned in the
New Hampshire Republican primary in
2008. He received 41 votes (0.02%) in the New Hampshire primary. According to the
Federal Election Commission (FEC), he also received 43 votes nationally in the general election.
2012 Randall Terry during a forum at the
New Hampshire Institute of Politics at
Saint Anselm College in December 2011.|alt= Supreme campaigned as a
Democrat in the
2012 U.S. presidential election. His candidacy was supported by the
Good Humor Party. On April 14, 2011, Supreme participated in the First Debate of the New Election Cycle at the IGLO Dissidents' Convention which also included
Jimmy McMillan,
Jill Stein, and others. He qualified to be listed on the
2012 Democratic Party primary ballot in New Hampshire. On October 29, 2011, Supreme participated in a satirical debate against a representative of the campaign of deceased British occultist
Aleister Crowley. On December 19, he participated in the "Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum", at the
New Hampshire Institute of Politics at
Saint Anselm College and "
glitterbombed" fellow candidate
Randall Terry. He was a candidate in the
Iowa Democratic caucuses, and received 1.4% of the votes on January 3, 2012. On January 10, 2012, in the
Democratic Primary in New Hampshire, Supreme received 833 votes. (
Barack Obama won the primary with 49,080 votes.) Supreme participated in the Anti-
NATO protests at the May 20–21
Chicago NATO Summit. In May 2012, he visited the second largest regional high school in Maine to give a speech about his campaign style to a government class. In June 2012, he participated in the
Rainbow Gathering in Tennessee. In October, Supreme participated in a debate hosted by
Peter Schiff in the Peter Schiff Radio Show, which featured a panel of overlooked presidential candidates including McMillan, independent write-in candidate Santa Claus, and write-in Republican presidential candidate Edgar Lawson.
2016 Supreme attempted another presidential run in
2016. He embarked on a tour of 20 cities to build support for his campaign and sought to qualify for matching funds from the
Federal Election Commission (FEC). He filed as a candidate in the
New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary on November 21, 2015. He was not invited to return to the Lesser-Known Democratic Candidates Presidential Forum, due in part to him glitter bombing Randall Terry at the event in 2011. Shortly before the primary, he was observed questioning Republican candidates
Chris Christie and
Ted Cruz through a bullhorn. Supreme engaged Christie in an informal debate over his free pony platform, during which he accused Christie of hating ponies, and asked Cruz whether he thought that water being used during
waterboarding should include
fluoride. Supreme received 256 votes in the primary on February 9, 2016, coming in fourth after former Maryland Governor
Martin O'Malley, who had dropped out after the Iowa caucuses. On March 4, Supreme switched his affiliation to the
Libertarian Party. He received the vote of a single delegate in the first round of presidential nomination voting at the
2016 Libertarian National Convention.
2020 Supreme ran again for president in
2020, this time as a Libertarian. This marked the first time that Supreme ran a "legitimate" campaign, focusing on real rather than satirical issues and using the slogan "In On The Joke". While Supreme continued to use satirical humor, he focused more on legitimate political issues. He called for ending foreign wars and voiced support for pardoning non-violent drug offenders, ending the
war on drugs, and reducing incarceration, which he called his top priority. On the
COVID-19 pandemic, Supreme criticized President
Donald Trump, arguing that he should have paid better attention to the virus and have made testing more widely available. He satirically promised to make COVID-19 illegal and, in a play on his campaign promise to go back in time and "
kill baby Hitler," vowed to go back in time and "kill baby COVID." He facetiously pledged to create "COVID-19 free zones" because "they work so well for things like guns and drugs." He won the Libertarian Presidential Preference Primary in New Hampshire on February 11, 2020. On March 3, 2020, Supreme was declared the winner of the Massachusetts primary. He dropped out on May 23, 2020, after
Jo Jorgensen received the Libertarian Party's nomination for president. Incidentally, Supreme's running mate
Spike Cohen was chosen to be the Libertarian vice presidential nominee.
2024 Supreme ran for president again in 2024, this time for the
Democratic nomination. Supreme obtained ballot access in one state for the Democratic primaries,
New Hampshire. On December 8, 2023, Supreme appeared at the
Lesser-Known Candidates Forum hosted by
Saint Anselm College in
Manchester, New Hampshire. Supreme placed fifth in the New Hampshire Democratic primary with 0.7% of the vote. Supreme also appeared on the ballot for the
Legal Marijuana Now Party's
presidential nomination primary in Minnesota on March 5, 2024. He placed third among five candidates with 15.08% of the vote. In June 2024, the
US Pirate Party officially voted to endorse Supreme's candidacy for President. He was also nominated by the
Conservative Party of Delaware and appeared on the
general election ballot in that state.
Other campaigns In
2018, Supreme expressed interest in running for
Governor of
Kansas. Although he did not live in the state, Kansas had very few strict requirements for running for office. Several teenagers taking advantage of the lack of requirements had filed to run for governor, and in order not to take any votes away from them, Supreme decided to run for
Attorney General instead, becoming a challenger to incumbent Republican
Derek Schmidt. The lack of requirements in order to run for office, as outlined in the state's
Constitution, has been heralded by Supreme: "This is indeed a very interesting and attractive loophole," he said. "I think that's a very good thing for democracy." Desarae Lindsay of
Texas was named his campaign treasurer and would accompany him to his 2020 presidential campaign. Supreme was eventually disqualified from running on the basis of his non-residency in the state, his home address being in Massachusetts. On August 24, 2020, Supreme announced that he would be launching a
write-in campaign for the Libertarian nomination for the
2020 Massachusetts senatorial election. =="Right to pony" during 2017 Clinton book tour==