Concerns arise over third party candidate potentially favoring Trump in 2024 race.
Growing Concerns Over Third-Party Candidate in 2024 Presidential Election
Growing speculation over a third-party candidate in the 2024 presidential election has raised concerns amid Democrats that such a candidate could help former President Donald Trump reclaim the White House.
Recent polling showed that if there were no third-party candidate in the 2024 election, Biden would either barely be ahead of Trump or be tied with him. On the other hand, Trump would take the lead or be tied with Biden if a third-party candidate did run, according to ABC News.
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“The concern among Democrats is that Biden has a softer hold on his voters than Donald Trump voters who are going to do anything for his candidates,” said Rick Klein, a political director at ABC. “And just remember how close it was in some of those key battlegrounds last time around; 10,000, 11,000, 20,000 votes in the states that Biden won. Every single one of them had more than enough third-party votes to have potentially swung an outcome.”
The fears come as many people in the United States are growing frustrated with both political parties, with many people not wanting either Trump or President Joe Biden to serve another term in office as president. A recent poll, conducted from July 8-11, showed 61% of voters believe Biden is not the strongest candidate Democrats could nominate, while 53% of voters believe Trump is not the strongest candidate Republicans could nominate in 2024.
Former Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, who is a founding chair of the No Labels organization, stated that a majority of people in the United States “are not buying what the two parties are selling anymore.” The organization has sought to open the door for a third-party candidate in several presidential elections.
Former Alabama Sen. Doug Jones claimed that it is ”a fool’s errand” to think that a third-party candidate can win the 2024 election.
“There is no way on God’s green Earth that they can get to 270 electoral votes, which means they will be a spoiler,” said Jones. “One way or another, they will be a spoiler, and as Rick Klein said, it looks like they will be a spoiler in favor of Donald Trump, and that will be the biggest threat to democracy that we have seen since January 6.”
The concerns about a third-party candidate running in 2024 come as Cornel West, a far-Left activist and a former professor at both Harvard University and Princeton University, announced earlier this year that he is running for president in 2024 as a Green Party candidate. He has defended his decision to run third-party, claiming that a Democratic administration would only be a “postponement of fascism.”
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Earlier this month, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, also a chair of No Labels, said he’s not considering a third-party 2024 bid, but suggested that there “may have to be” an additional candidate given voter’s dissatisfaction with the top Democratic and GOP choices.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is running against Trump in the 2024 Republican primary race, said he has no plans to join the No Labels’s third-party movement, calling it a ”fool’s errand.”
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