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Trump Allies Have a Plan to Hurt Biden’s Chances: Elevate Outsider Candidates (www.nytimes.com)
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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.

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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Trump Allies Russia has a Plan to Hurt Biden's Chances: Elevate Outsider Candidates.

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    A lot of it is US billionaires:

    One thing we should expect is for all of the “major” third party candidates — Kennedy, Stein, West — to be funded in part by ultra-high-net-worth Republicans. That’s already happening to some degree.

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