Polls show a significant number of Americans find the Trump-Biden rematch in November unexciting and they wish they could have other candidates on the ballot. Biden is thought as being too old for the job given the Presidency is about firefighting all through which takes a toll on someone. Trump on the other hand is thought of as being on a revenge mission in his third stab at the Presidency and could slide America into an age of authoritarianism where America will be no different from the tin pot democracies around the world that it usually lectures. So, in that front, Third Party Candidates are positioning themselves to appear on the ballot and maybe even cause an upset.
The last time a third party candidate made a major impact was billionaire Ross Perot in 1993 who won 17 percent of the vote, and Bill Clinton won by just 43 percent of the popular vote. The Third Party Group No Labels has qualified to be on the ballot in 12 states and says it could qualify in up to 25 states. It has not chosen the flag bearer as yet but it’s expected that it will be retiring senators Joe Manchin and Mitt Romney both of whom have been problematic for their parties. Joe Manchin railed against Biden stimulus deal and trimmed it down to $1 trillion dollars whereas Biden had sought $3 trillion dollars. He also railed against green energy investments since it would have led to a loss of 14,000 coal jobs in his West Virginia state. In retiring, Joe Manchin said he will travel around America to mobilize the middle. Mitt Romney meanwhile has been a RINO all through.
Cornel West, who taught at Princeton, Harvard and the New York Theological seminary, will likely hurt Biden as it will be a protest vote by the left who find Biden unexciting and maybe even too old for the job. Another Third Party Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr is an anti vaxxer. He was a Democrat before switching to be an independent and likely he will hurt both Biden and Trump, Biden, for being a lifelong Democrat, and Trump, for being an anti vaxxer. In 2000 Ralph Nader got only 3 percent of the vote but it was enough to deny Al Gore the 27 electoral college votes of Florida and hence the Presidency. In 2016, Jill Stein got only 1 percent of the vote which was enough to deny Hillary Clinton crucial electoral college wins in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania where Trump won all the three states by just 80,000 votes whereas previously poll after poll had shown the 2016 election as being Clinton’s for the taking.
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