{"id":13144,"date":"2024-03-14T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13144"},"modified":"2024-03-14T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:25:31","slug":"third-party-candidates-widening-trumps-lead-over-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13144","title":{"rendered":"Third Party Candidates Widening Trump&#8217;s Lead Over Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Though the majority of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/latest-polls\/general-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">general-election presidential polls<\/a>&nbsp;at this stage of campaign 2024 feature only President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, a growing number are beginning to reflect what most voters&#8217; ballots are going to actually look like:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/02\/02\/presidential-ballot-will-be-crowded-with-third-party-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretty crowded<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what happens when other names are added to the two least popular presidents in the modern polling era? Led by former Democrat and current independent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/tag\/robert-kennedy-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>, they combine to attract support in the low double digits, usually. But what really has Democratic operatives in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/02\/08\/biden-third-parties-rfk-jr-west-stein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funk<\/a>&nbsp;is how the introduction of competition affects the spread between the Big Two. Long story short, it widens Trump&#8217;s lead. At least as of now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"sFxcFLJOtZ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/02\/08\/third-party-candidates-widening-trumps-lead-over-biden\/\">Third Party Candidates Widening Trump&#8217;s Lead Over Biden<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Third Party Candidates Widening Trump&#039;s Lead Over Biden&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/02\/08\/third-party-candidates-widening-trumps-lead-over-biden\/embed\/#?secret=X8gJW7ZAfF#?secret=sFxcFLJOtZ\" data-secret=\"sFxcFLJOtZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Though the majority of general-election presidential polls at this stage of campaign 2024 feature only President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, a growing number are beginning to reflect what most voters&#8217; ballots are going to actually look like: pretty crowded.<br \/>\nSo what happens when other names are added to the two least popular presidents in the modern polling era? Led by former Democrat and current independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they combine to attract support in the low double digits, usually. But what really has Democratic operatives in a funk is how the introduction of competition affects the spread between the Big Two. Long story short, it widens Trump&#8217;s lead. At least as of now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/02\/08\/third-party-candidates-widening-trumps-lead-over-biden\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[372,198,1101],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-election","tag-elections","tag-third-parties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13145,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions\/13145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}