Posted on 04/28/2021 5:20:49 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
If libertarians had voted for then-President Trump last year, he would have won. As close as the 2020 election was, it could have been a lot closer and far more complex — and its outcome reversed. Libertarian voters could have flipped the three closest states and sent the outcome in favor of the House of Representatives and Trump’s reelection bid.
Jo Jorgensen, the Libertarian Party candidate from South Carolina, won 1,865,724 votes, just 1.18 percent of the total votes cast. Her campaign received minimal attention and her vote total seems equally insignificant, until its huge impact in Biden’s three closest states is seen.
Had Jorgensen’s votes in each of the three closest states gone to Trump, he would have won all three. Not only would he have won all three, Trump would have won Arizona and Georgia by multiples of the margin by which he actually lost in them — and he would have won Wisconsin by almost the same margin he actually lost it by.
(Even without PA) Trump’s flipping of Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin with libertarian votes would have delivered 37 electoral votes to him — and pushed him into a 269-269 tie with Biden.
Under any conceivable scenario, had the votes cast for the Libertarian candidate gone to Trump, he would have won reelection.
For over a century, third parties have been American political spoilers, most recently in 2000 when Ralph Nader pulled away enough votes from Al Gore to throw Florida and the election to George W. Bush. What is not appreciated is that this just occurred on a much larger scale. America just missed having its most dramatic modern election, one that would have made the actual 2020 outcome pale in comparison.
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Third parties cost us elections.
CHEATING “elected” Biden.
Did not PDJT get more votes in 2020 than he did in 2016?
If so, then the premise fails in this instance.
That’s right - the democrat party selected biden; the election was stolen from the rightful winner ...
And people still talk about 1992, when Ross Perot got 19% of the vote, and may have tipped the balance in some states to Bill Clinton. I’ve heard arguments on both sides of that one, some saying Perot siphoned enough votes from George HW Bush to elect Clinton, and some saying Clinton would have won anyway.
I agree, third party or independent candidates can be spoilers, as presidential elections are winner take all in the electoral vote in 48 out of the 50 states.
NO ONE eected Biden
CHEATING STOLE THE ELECTION FOR JOE AND THE HO
It’s all Jo Jorgensen’s fault! Finally, someone to blame!
In 2015, in my province Alberta, the liberal party collapsed because all the liberals jumped over to the NDP to ensure they could come up the middle while the conservative vote was being split between the conservatives and Wildrose.
There could be some districts where that occurred as well in the US that cost some House and Senate seats.
The election was STOLEN, Libertarians had NOTHING to do with the loss!! GEEZE!!!
Utter BS. You can’t possibly believe this. Libertarians weren’t doing 4 AM dumps of ballots.
Massive fraud in several states “elected” Biden.
The democrats would have just had mor votes to create to get biden in.
I don’t think anything would have changed even if they had all voted for Trump.
The Deep State was not going to let Trump in again.
Treason takes many forms.
I doubt it. The RATs were going to cheat as much as necessary to win.
Exactly. Does the author of this article really think the Demon-crats would not have simply created more phony votes if the Libertarians had all voted for President Trump?
Dominion voting machines theft, mail in ballots shenanigans and the thugs in Detroit, Atlanta, Philadelphia and elsewhere did some dirty work thievery.
Who?
BS. Trump won overwhelmingly. Biden is a vegetable.
Yep.. Hoping it gets proven..
Except he didn't. There is documented evidence that massive fraud occurred. Counts, video footage of ballots being inserted, counting ballots suddenly stopping etc etc.
We have had a coup. We all know it's not going to end well.
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