“In the general election, it would be. You can spin it or justify it in your head any which way you want, but its the truth.”
No more fuzzy math.
Zero is not equal to one.
If you refuse to vote for rudy, it isn’t a vote for hillary.
It all depends on the particular dynamics of a specific race, but in an especially close election if there is a “true conservative” third party candidate taking 3-5% of the vote or more and Hillary and Rudy are in a statistical dead heat, in a pivitol state(s), then it can be reasonably deduced that if our “true conservative” friend were not in the race a large enough percentage of his supporters would otherwise vote Rudy and put him over the top.
In this scenario a third party candidate getting moderate support = Hillary presidency.
Like I said, justify it in your mind any way you wish, and we can both hope it never comes down to it, but that’s just the way it works.