• SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Because it’s true every time, and it works a lot. Gore would have won if Nader wasn’t on the ticket, and guess what? The Republicans have been propping up third-party candidates for years.

    Hell, in Florida they got some random dude on the ticket just because he had the same name as the Democrat – and it worked.

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      7 months ago

      Intuitively it doesn’t even make sense in this case though. Biden is running as the safe ordinary establishment candidate. Trump and RFK Jr are going for the right wing wacko conspiracy theory crowd.

      Unless I see data to the contrary, I’m going to assume that RFK Jr siphons more votes from Trump.