Who exactly is… Literally Anybody Else ?​

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    Spotlight 9/2024
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    Studies have found that many Americans haven’t yet decided if they’ll vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election, because they’re not happy with either candidate. Dustin Ebey hopes they’ll have another option: him, also known as literallybuchstäblich, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes​Literally Anybody Else. ​

    Ebey, 35, is a U.S. army veteran and math teacher from Dallas, Texas. He’s officially changed his name to Literally Anybody Else and is now trying to get enough votes so he can become a presidential candidate. He has a GoFundMeInternetplattform für die Vermittlung von Spendengeldern​GoFundMe, where he’s trying to raise $5,000, and is planning to open a campaign office.​

    “It’s not necessarily about me as a person, but it’s about literally anybody else as an idea,” he told the Texas news outletNachrichtenagentur, -anbieternews outlet WFAA. “We don’t have a ‘neither’ option on the ballotWahlzettel​ballot, and this kind of fills that role.” About 240 million Americans are eligible: be ~ to do sth.berechtigt sein, etw. zu tun​eligible to vote in the U.S. presidential election, which will be held on November 5, 2024.​

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