Very dangerous for Democrats running for office in Missouri!
What a way to sabotage votes for Lucas Kunce against Josh Harley.
Petition drive succeeds in placing new party on Missouri’s November ballot
A new political party will appear on Missouri’s ballot this year, the brainchild of a candidate hoping to challenge Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley in November.
Jared Young, an attorney and businessman from Webb City, last year announced he would run as an independent candidate in the Senate race. In April, he decided to instead submit signatures to create a new political organization, the Better Party, and invited other candidates to join it.
I think everyone here knows that third party candidates only cause Democrats to lose elections.
2000—Al Gore vs. George W. Bush
Ralph Nader and the Green party earn votes, but it all comes down to Florida.
The election was so tight that it took a 36-day legal battle and a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court ruling before Al Gore conceded, although he won the national popular vote by more than a half-million votes. (My emphasis here)
IMO George Bush gave us the Iraq war by lying about the cause of 9/11 and moving the focus from the Taliban in Afghanistan.
2016—Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump
When outsiders dominated the presidential campaign.
From Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders to Gary Johnson to Jill Stein, political outsiders dominated the 2016 presidential campaign from its outset. But they weren’t just running on third party tickets.
According to some political analysts, third-party candidates aided Trump’s election. They pointed to the results in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Stein’s vote total exceeded Trump’s margin of victory. Had Stein’s votes in those three states flipped to Clinton, she would have won the Electoral College in addition to her popular vote majority. (My emphasis this paragraph)
That’s 12 years of disastrous Republican presidential administrations in 24 years