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Jesse Walker

UNCOVERED: The race for last place - Caught on Camera

Robby Wells is a former football coach who has picked up a habit of running for president. He made his first bid for the job in 2012, aiming initially for the nomination of the remnants of Ross Perot's Reform Party and then seeing if the conservative Constitution Party was interested. (It wasn't.) In 2016 he tried for the Democratic nomination, then switched to running as an independent when he wasn't invited to any Democratic debates. ("The consensus," his website claims, "was that he was blocked out of fear of his debate skills.") He took another shot at the Democratic nomination in 2020, and this year he ran as the nominee of the Party Party, a group inspired by the rock singer Andrew W.K.

Wells was on the ballot this month in exactly one state: Rhode Island. According to the current count at Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, he has 358 votes; the Rhode Island Board of Elections puts his winnings slightly higher, at 359. Either way, he's in last place.

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