third party candidate to siphon off votes
So are you saying that the MAGA voters are stoopid?
Candidates who are right on the issues lose because they run losing campaigns. A good campaign would not lose votes to a 3d party candidate. When a 3d party canidate gets enough votes to be a factor, the voters are really saying “none of the above” including the candidate who is good on the issues.
Keep it up, I may vote for the D on putative grounds. Get off your f-ing high horse. Guillispe is a piece of sh!t candidate.
“So are you saying that the MAGA voters are stoopid?”
Stoopid when it comes to voting...then YES. Stoopid overall, then NO.
The problem is that once you leave the 2% or so of Americans who are political junkies, what you find are part-timers - people who have much more interest in other things, and only think of politics at election time, if even then. Run a 3rd party to split the Republican vote, and enough of those part-time Republicans don’t see the implications of supporting the 3rd Party, so the Democrat wins, which is EXACTLY what happened to Oliver North when he ran for Senate from Virginia. The RINOs didn’t like North, so they got a credible 3rd Party person on the ballot, and they succeeded - the Democrat won.