Brian T. Carroll


Brian T. Carroll is an American teacher who is the nominee of the American Solidarity Party for President in the 2020 United States presidential election.

Life and career

After getting his bachelor's degree in history from UCLA and a teaching credential at California State University, Los Angeles, Carroll taught junior high history and other subjects in Farmersville, California, from 1977 to 1983. At the time, he wrote for the Valley Voice newspaper especially on the local need for public transportation. He taught nine years in Colombia, South America and one summer in China. He has traveled extensively in Brazil and Europe. As an amateur naturalist, his work has been cited in studies on spiders and insects. In 2008, he returned to teaching in Farmersville.

2018 California congressional campaign

Carroll ran for California's 22nd congressional district in 2018 against Republican Devin Nunes and Democrat Andrew Janz. This was a contentious election due to Nunes' role in the Trump investigation. After Carroll was eliminated in California's Top 2 primary election, Janz claimed that Carroll had endorsed Janz for the general election; Carroll publicly denied this claim.

2020 presidential campaign

On April 5, 2019, Carroll declared his candidacy for the 2020 United States presidential election, seeking the nomination of the American Solidarity Party, a Christian Democratic political party. He won the nomination at the online party convention. He chose ASP chair Amar Patel as his running mate.
Carroll is expected to be on the ballot in ten to twelve states and as a registered write-in candidate in most others. At 70 years old, he is younger than major-party candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Carroll's campaign stops have included the Rehumanize Conference in New Orleans, a speaking engagement at the Presidential Politics Conference of Iowa at Dordt College that was also attended by Joe Walsh and Tulsi Gabbard. He participated in the presidential debate hosted by the Free & Equal Elections Foundation alongside Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green candidates.

Endorsements

Political positions

Carroll is running on a platform of G. K. Chesterton-style distributism as an alternative to global capitalism, a consistent life ethic, healthcare for all, climate and environmental protections, social justice and reconciliation, and a more peaceful world. His positions are similar to those espoused by other Christian Democratic parties in many European countries.
Carroll subscribes to a consistent life ethic which opposes abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty, while advocating for progressive and social justice issues. He supports the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Personal life

Carroll has been married for 46 years, and has five children and 14 grandchildren. An elder in the Evangelical Covenant Church, a Pietist denomination, Caroll considers himself an Evangelical Christian.

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