Robby Wells

Robert Andrew Crawford Wells (born April 10, 1968) is an American politician and former college football coach. He was the head football coach at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia for the 2008 and 2009 seasons.

Wells unsuccessfully sought the Constitution Party's nomination for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election.

College football career Wells played football at Furman University, playing fullback and wide receiver. He was a member of the 1988 NCAA Division I-AA national championship team.

Coaching career Wells coached football from 1990 to 2009. He began his career as an assistant coach at Greer High School in Greer, South Carolina from 1990 to 1994. He served as the head football coach at C. E. Murray High School in Greeleyville, South Carolina from 1995 to 1997.

Wells moved to the University of South Carolina as a graduate assistant for four seasons. He worked with the defensive backs (1998–1999) and middle linebackers (2000). Wells moved on to become the defensive coordinator at South Carolina State University in 2002. His Bulldogs defenses attained numerous national rankings and contributed to a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) championship in 2004. The lawsuit was settled in November 2011.

Head coaching record College

Political career 2012 See: Constitution Party National Convention

On November 21, 2011, Wells announced his candidacy for President of the United States in the 2012 general election. He initially stated that he would run as an independent, saying "Our party system is broken. We need a third option". In January 2012, Wells withdrew his bid for the Reform Party nomination and announced that he would instead seek the presidential nomination of the Constitution Party. At the Constitution Party National Convention, Wells received 58 of 402 votes (14.39%) for the party's presidential nomination, which was won on the first ballot by former U.S. Congressman Virgil Goode.

2016 Wells announced on November 3, 2012, that he would run for President of the United States again in 2016 as an independent candidate. On July 17, 2013, he held a conference call to address a variety of accusations by his former campaign managers.

On September 24, 2013, Wells announced that he would discontinue campaigning as an independent candidate and would instead seek the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. On March 9, 2016, a press release on Wells' website claimed that Wells is no longer running as a Democrat, but as an independent once again.

2020 See 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries

In 2018, Wells filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for President in the 2020 Democratic Party primary. He filed in person at the office of Secretary of State Bill Gardner to enter the New Hampshire Democratic primary on November 13, 2019. He then went on to get on the ballot in the Texas and Louisiana Democratic primaries. Starting in 2019, Wells has publicly associated himself with AllatRa, a new religious movement of Ukrainian origin.

2024

In February 2024, Wells announced he would run for the United States House of Representatives in Virginia's 6th district.

The Wells/Jones Party Party ticket had ballot access in Rhode Island (4 electors) and appeared in the fourth slot on the 2024 Rhode Island presidential ballot.