COBB, BENJAMIN ALLEN

Benjamin Allen Cobb is registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) as a candidate filer for President of the United States in the 2028 election cycle, under FEC candidate ID P80008055.^[1] The FEC registry records the party affiliation on this registration as Independent.^[1] The registry does not mark the filer as an incumbent; the registration is a challenger or open-seat filing rather than a sitting officeholder seeking re-election.^[1] Presidential registrations are recorded nationally, so the registry ties this filing to the United States as a whole rather than to a single state or congressional district.^[1]

The registry's filing record for this candidacy opens on July 19, 2025, the date of the first FEC filing on record — a registration made about three years ahead of the November 2028 general election.^[2] The most recent filing on record is dated August 17, 2026.^[2] The FEC lists 2028 as the election year for this registration and treats the candidacy as active through 2028.^[1]

As of August 19, 2026, the FEC assigns this candidacy the status "registered filer; not yet a statutory candidate" (candidate status code N).^[1] Registered with the FEC as a filer, but has not yet met the statutory definition of a candidate for this election cycle.^[1] Under federal campaign-finance law, a filer meets the statutory definition of a candidate for an election once contributions or expenditures on the candidacy's behalf cross the $5,000 threshold; the registry does not record that threshold as met for this filing.^[3] The registry does not mark this candidacy inactive: the filing remains active in FEC records, which is a statement about the registration itself and not a claim of campaign activity.^[1]

The FEC registry records that this candidacy has raised funds; the totals reported to the commission appear in the campaign financials section of this page.^[1]

An FEC registration establishes that this candidacy's paperwork exists in the federal registry; it does not by itself establish an active campaign organization, ballot access in any state, or a party's endorsement.^[3] The Candidate publishes this profile from that registry record, so each fact above is verifiable at the source: the FEC's public page for candidate P80008055 and the filings the commission indexes for it.^[1][2]