May 5 — Mary Matalin, the longtime Republican strategist and operative, enrolled in the Libertarian Party. Matalin called herself a Republican in the “Jeffersonian, Madisonian sense . . . The Libertarian Party represents those constitutional principles that I agree with.” See e.g., http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/mary-matalin-leaves-republican-party/2016/05/05/id/727489/#ixzz47zEfH2q0