With just how close the Presidential election has been, both candidates and their campaigns are looking for any advantage to eek out some critical wins in swing states that will decide who takes the White House in January. Pennsylvania polls, for example, are showing that Trump has an extremely thin lead of just 0.3%, which is next to nothing. That’s a coin-flip.
One of the most effective methods in the way of trying to pull out ahead in these swing states has been actually convincing voters to vote third-party. The reason being that the polarization of this election has been so high, convincing voters who would normally always vote Red or Blue to go for a third-party is actually an effective way to potentially take votes away from the opponent. This goes for down-ballot races as well.
A shadowy Political Action Committee named “Civic Truth Action” has been courting pro-life voters in North Carolina and Georgia to actually convince them to vote for one of the third-party candidates since Trump has not been clear in his support for the pro-life movement. It’s clearly an under-the-table way of trying to take the rug out from under Donald Trump.
The Republicans have been engaging in some of this as well, though. A super PAC known as Badger Values has been trying to help the Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein grow support in the state of Wisconsin. That being a key swing state, any Democrats throwing their support behind Jill Stein this cycle only helps Donald Trump.
That PAC, Badger Values, has spent more than $1 million in Wisconsin alone to help Jill Stein, all according to publicly-available FEC records. On the other end, the Democrat shadow PAC, Civic Truth Action, has raised multi-millions of dollars to help flip conservative voters to being third-party supporters in this cycle.
Some of the significant efforts to convince voters to go third-party have not been as a result of the two major Political Parties and their political action committees. In some cases, there have been organic support for third-party candidates over disdain for the two candidates at the top of the ballot.
In Michigan, Kamala Harris has been struggling to maintain support among key minority groups, such as the Muslims in the Glove State. Some Muslim voters throughout Michigan have been on a mission to convince Muslims who normally would have voted for Democrats to either abstain or vote third-party. The reason being that many of the Muslims in the region are not fans of the way the Biden-Harris regime has been handling the Middle East conflicts over the past year.
These third-party Get-Out-The-Vote efforts have been targeting big races in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate as well. One shadowy PAC known as the “Save Western Culture” PAC has been trying to convince Texas voters that Ted Cruz actually isn’t conservative enough for Texas conservatives, which is hilarious considering Ted Cruz is considered one of the most conservative members in all of Congress.
“Every election cycle, national Democrats set up dark-money groups designed to confuse voters and prop up third-party candidates who have no chance at winning,” a Republican Party official shared with reporters on the topic of dark-money PACs. “This seems to be more of the same, and voters should reject this disingenuous tactic.”
New anti-Mike Lawler mailer popping up in the district, per source.
But the strange thing is that it attacks Lawler from the right — and he is only running against a Dem & a WFP candidate.
Appears to be linked to a mysterious super PAC that only recently registered w / FEC. pic.twitter.com/cuzIH5XvKm
— Melanie Zanona (@MZanona) October 30, 2024
These efforts to convince voters to get behind anyone other than one of the main candidates are more successful than ever because more Americans than ever want more options. Third-party candidates are surging in viability, especially on the Presidential scene.
Before Kamala Harris was installed as the Democrat nominee without any Democratic process for voters to participate in, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was leading an independent Presidential campaign that was the most successful anyone had seen since Ross Perot of the early 1990s.
While that died down and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did align himself with Donald Trump this cycle, the possibility of a Presidential candidate from outside of the two major political parties being a serious contender is only increasing.
In a post-Trump world, it would be no surprise if a candidate came along with a message similar to Trump’s but unaligned with the Republican Party. Such a candidate almost seems inevitable at this point.
What do you think? After Trump leaves the political scene, will a third-party/independent candidate capture the support of the MAGA movement? Let us know what you think in the comments below.