Posted on 08/01/2023 11:36:13 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Democrats are very worried that a third-party presidential candidate backed by the group No Labels could cost Joe Biden the 2024 presidential election — handing victory to the Republican candidate, possibly former President Donald Trump. Democrats are right to be worried … but Republicans should be worried too.
Although third-party candidates are fairly common in U.S. presidential elections — as well as other federal and state elections — they seldom have much of an effect on the outcome.
But in at least four presidential elections since 1900, a third-party candidate attracted enough votes to arguably change the outcome. Two of those losses went to Democrats and two to Republicans.
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Yeah. Since there are really no Republicans running other than Trump who have even gotten a clue about anything, watch for this. RFK or Milt Romley seem the most likely to me, although there could be others like Tulsi, et al.
Damn straight.
Yet still there are FReepers today that defend throwing their vote away giving Clinton the win.
Haven’t seen the pro-Desantis Freeper posters lately. They must have been cut from the budget.
Mot famous in my mind was populist progressive GOP Teddy Roosevelt who was denied the GOP nomination and ran on his own Bull Moose ticket, which handed the POTUS victory to nortorious progressive Woodrow Wilson.
There is only one “third party” candidate that takes POTUS from DJT, that’s Election Fraud.
If Election Fraud runs, then DJT “loses” and Deep State Cabal wins.
it was the beginning of exposing the uniparty...
Wallace won Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia. His running mate was General Curtis Lemay.
My dad was in Vietnam and he voted for Wallace because GW said that if anti-war protesters laid down in front of his car, he'd just put it in drive and move on.
The Hill saying that Ron Nader in 2000 and Jill Johnson in 2016 were consequential is BS.
Reno is still out there pimping DeSantis.
Yes. And there is speculation that if Trump fails to get the GOP nomination, he will do the same thing Teddy did.
And achieve the same results.
A win for the Rats.
Bush should have done the honorable thing and supported Perot. Perot was right then, and right now. The problems he ran on have only gotten worse. Spending, national debt, outsourcing, globalization, etc. The gop and dems have no solutions or want to change the dynamics destroying America.
The Hill saying that Ron Nader in 2000
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“giving Clinton the win”
LOL. Senor Bush gave Clinton the win when he broke his promise to the voters.
Everything else is just excuses by people who don’t want to put the blame where it is most deserved.
“Haven’t seen the pro-Desantis Freeper posters lately.”
They’re still around, just being quiet.
C’mon man, would you be making noise if your guy was racing in reverse? I wouldn’t.
DeSantis should have finished his term as governor then took two years setting up a killer team for ‘28.
“if Trump fails to get the GOP nomination”
Weasel words. It seems extremely improbable at this point that anyone except Trump can win the GOP nomination. It’s his for the taking.
So the only way he doesn’t “get” the GOP nomination is if the nomination is stolen from him by some shenanigans by the party “elites”.
And if they do that, then they will deserve to have the party split and broken and consigned to irrelevancy. It’s their choice to make.
It’s a safe bet that Bush didn’t vote for Perot giving Clinton the win.
It’s also a sure bet that the 20 million LIVs who voted for Perot did give Clinton the win.
Perot - another example of a populist who had nothing other than a few populist themes he promoted.
He may have been right on those themes but being so was no marker as to how else he would have governed. To me, no mtter who supported Perot’s populism, he was no Conservative. What about the courts and the appointtments thereto, or the regulatoty/administrative state, or school choice, or abortion, ect., ect., ect.
Nader probably did cost Gore Florida and the election.
It’s okay to say it now. Bush was no prize either.
Heck, there are Freepers today, who swear they won’t vote for the GOP, if Trump isn’t the nominee. And if they actually do that, this would hand the election to Biden.
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