any third party will do...
“I received a campaign mailer extoling the virtues of a Libertarian candidate’s 2nd Amendment stance....I ...saw that it was mailed by the Arizona democrat party. They must be getting desperate!”
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Maybe they are desperate. But promoting “Losertarian” candidates to get on the ballot and steering conservatives (who would NEVER vote ‘RAT) to vote for the Losertarian is a ‘RAT modus operandi. They do it wherever they think it will help the ‘RAT candidate.
This ‘RAT tactic works to insure the defeat of Republicans to ‘RATS more often than I would think possible.
It doesn't work in states where there's a runoff if no one gets 50% in the general election, like Georgia and Lousiana. In Georgia in 1992, the incumbent U.S. senator Wyche Fowler (D) won a plurality in the general election thanks to a Libertarian, but the Repub Coverdell won the runoff against Fowler.
It does indeed work everywhere else, like Virginia, e.g., Terry McAuliffe.