Is it time for a third party?
If voters can expect Biden-Trump II in 2024, the answer is yes.
With notable exceptions, even the Democrats, who have nothing against President Joe Biden, who has been the necessary antidote to his predecessor’s incompetence and criminality, are running again next year at age 81. I have serious doubts about doing so. 81 year old elderly.
As for Trump, who turns 78 in 2024, he was pale in 2016 and 2020, but now he could be sent to prison.
All of this explains why an NBC poll in April reported that 70% of voters didn’t want Biden re-elected and 60% said they didn’t want Trump re-elected.
And good luck to those Republicans who are nostalgic for the “work-in-the-box” conservatism that can still attract prospective candidates like Tim Scott and Nikki Haley, MAGA. Because the world wants Trump to lead them into the Valley of Despair again, despite the indictments.
Would a third party change anything in California, much less Santa Cruz County, where essentially one party is the only party? It may not be here, or in the long-standing one-party congressional districts and congressional districts, including our county, but California had a Republican governor until 2011 (moderate Arnold Schwarzenet gar).
yes republicans Might be so Come to my senses and turn away from Trump and Biden can After further consideration, he decided that he would be too old to devote the energy needed for the next term. But many Democrats have little enthusiasm for Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the party’s standard-bearer, to say the least.
So it’s a third party.
It’s not easy. Now a third party would need to organize and participate in nearly every state ballot. And perhaps one by one from each party he identifies credible and experienced candidates who may even be elected.
This is not impossible. A growing number of voters identify as independents (49% of voters were independents in a Gallup poll earlier this year), frowned upon by MAGAism and arousalism, and by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Almost no enthusiasm for candidates such as Polarization. Senator Bernie Sanders (left), right, or even older than Biden.
The last time a third-party candidate, or nominee, threatened the White House’s two-party system was in 1992, when the political landscape was less polarized than it is today. Ross Perot ran. . For a time, Mr. Perot actually led incumbent President George H.W. Bush and challenger Bill Clinton, but he soon self-immolated himself and dropped out of the race, only to resurface late and resurface. It still got about 20% of the vote.
One of the third parties is colluding. No Labels already has him on five state ballots. No Labels will hold a convention in Dallas in April 2024, and the candidates include Senator Kirsten Cinema (Arizona), former Governor Larry Hogan (R-Maryland), and Senator Susan Collins. Rep. (R-Maine), Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-W. Virginia).
Critics, mostly on the left, see No Labels as advocating big business, corporate benefits, and anti-government regulation, and one of the group’s biggest supporters is Harlan Crow, the patron of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. points out. The Arizona Democratic Party is already pursuing a lawsuit to remove the no-label from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot.
But No Labels is right to point out that a good chunk of voters are fed up with both parties and want politics to return to the middle.
Benjamin Chavis Jr., co-chair of No Labels and former NAACP leader, said recently that the group “doesn’t want to ‘ruin’ the election, but no one believes America can keep doing the same thing and get different results.” You shouldn’t think about it,” he wrote. ”
“Continuous slander of the other side is no substitute for solving the problems of this country. The need for greater, innovative and transformative political change will remain on the table.”
Listen, listen.
