Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico, ran for president before, so this isn't his first dip in the presidential pool.

In the 2012 election, he ran for the Republican nomination. After losing that to Mitt Romney, he ran as a candidate for the Libertarian Party. He ended up with just shy of 1 percent of the total electorate's votes.

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