▲ 164 ▼ Trump Allies Have a Plan to Hurt Biden’s Chances: Elevate Outsider Candidates (www.nytimes.com) submitted 2 years ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments This works because almost all the US uses first-past-the-post elections for the Presidential general election. So you get outcomes like this: Scenario 1: Biden: 10 votes Trump: 9 votes Kennedy/Stein/West: 0 votes Biden wins the state Scenario 2: Biden: 9 votes Trump: 9 votes Kennedy/Stein/West: 1 vote Tied vote, decided by game of chance/lawsuit Scenario 3: Biden: 8 votes Trump: 9 votes Kennedy/Stein/West: 2 votes Trump wins the state This is why you see huge financial support from Republican billionaires for third party candidates who have no chance of winning.
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) So far the polls don't show that kind of backfire. Would take a bunch more people hearing about why he's actually running to create it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] lennybird@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago Republicans have done this for decades to great success. Usually they'll push a wedge-driving issue with online operatives sometimes posing as grandstanding leftists who will vote 3rd party, independent, etc. It rarely works for Dems, but Libertarians did screw over Trump to some extent last election thanks to Jojo permalink fedilink source parent [–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago "Shit, Rita, that's what we're getting paid to do, not what we're getting paid to say!" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago Republicans have done this for decades to great success. Usually they'll push a wedge-driving issue with online operatives sometimes posing as grandstanding leftists who will vote 3rd party, independent, etc. It rarely works for Dems, but Libertarians did screw over Trump to some extent last election thanks to Jojo permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago "Shit, Rita, that's what we're getting paid to do, not what we're getting paid to say!" permalink fedilink source parent