Vermin Supreme appeared with a boot for a hat in 2024's primary ballots, these were his results

The 2024 Super Tuesday seems like years ago; it was a big day for the Biden campaign before a debate debacle caused his party to push him aside. But it was also a great day for another candidate: Vermin Supreme.

A third party also took the stage on Super Tuesday (March 5, 2024) in Minnesota, and Vermin Supreme, a satirical candidate with a boot for a hat, took his chances.

The candidate had his best primary result, reaching third place in the Minnesota party. However, he only received 397 votes. The primary winner, activist Krystal Gabe, withdrew, so he technically reached second place.

He switched to the Minnesotan third party from the Democratic ballot. Just a couple of months before, he was one of the more than 20 names on the New Hampshire Democratic Primary ballots.

Vermin Supreme is a political satirist, a performance artist who wears a boot for a hat, eight ties, and carries a giant toothbrush. He is a regular in the New Hampshire primaries, where he has competed for years.

The number of times Supreme has run in the primaries is unclear, but there are records of his presence since the 90s.

According to data from the New Hampshire Secretary of State's Office, collected by the Concord Monitor, he started running there in 2008.

But there are also media records of him participating in the 2004 Washington Primaries. The political satirist also tends to change parties when he feels like it.

The only party he has vocally endorsed is the Libertarian Party, for which he ran a more serious campaign in 2020, according to an interview with the magazine Film Daily.

Aside from his 2020 run, his political platform has remained consistent throughout his career. He mentioned the four pillars of it during a 2016 Fox25 interview collected by CBS.

"Gingivitis has been eroding the gumline of this great nation of ours for long enough and must be stopped," he said, explaining he advocates for mandatory oral hygiene laws.

He also offers every American a free pony, which he expects to use as an ID system: "A federal pony identification system, and you must have your pony with you at all times."

Supreme claims to be the only candidate spreading awareness of the "imminent zombie invasion," which he plans to harness as an energy source.

Finally, Supreme told Fox25 that he is the only candidate willing to fully fund time travel research, to "go back" and "kill baby Hitler before he is even born."

During his consistent attempts, Supreme has gathered a sort of political base. This election, he reached seventh place, but he landed the fourth place in the 2016 Republican primary.

The origin of Vermin Supreme can be traced back to Baltimore, where he started as a club promoter in the 80s before changing his name and beginning as a political activist.

During several interviews, the satirist has explained that his name came from that club scene: "All club owners are vermin," he told the Baltimore Sun in 2012, "so I was Vermin Supreme." He has said the same about politicians.

As the Sun recalls, he experienced his first political campaign to become the Mayor of Baltimore against Kurt Schmoke, a Rhodes Scholar who won the election.

Supreme mentioned that, around that time, he decided to join the March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, a peace movement that traveled through the country.

That marked Supreme's origin as a regular in the protest scene. He takes his role much more seriously there, as he told the Baltimore Sun, trying to ease the tensions between police and protesters.