The American Independent Party has not spoken to Trump personally, Robinson said, but the AIP was in touch with Trump California state director Tim Clark in August as soon as it nominated the New ...

In 1968, Wallace ran for president as the candidate of the newly formed American Independent Party, with a platform focused on states’ rights, farmers, anti-elitism, and law and order.

American Independent Party chairman Mark Seidenberg of Aliso Viejo said that decades ago he had encouraged Dornan, then a television talk show host, to make his first run for Congress in 1976.