re: Another unhinged Trump statement on Ron

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So the same group that bitches at libertarians for splitting the vote

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I’ll never understand people who complain about the 3rd party candidates, which obviously is usually the libertarians because they’re the most prominent 3rd party. Now there may be a point of frustration where a candidate has to get 50% of the vote or there is a runoff, because with only 2 candidates, someone would have gotten it (even if none of those who voted for the libertarian candidate voted at all). But there is a run-off, while annoying, to settle it anyways.

That aside, it doesn’t make sense in any other election, especially the “stole votes from X candidate). A lot of times people will only vote in that race if say a libertarian is on the ballot. And in the case of libertarians, there are a lot of both right and left-leaning libertarians, so even if they did vote for an R or D candidate, we don’t know how they would vote, but it’s likely that they would be pretty evenly split, at least split enough not to make much of a difference. If anything, I would argue the D candidates suffer more, because the GOP has catered more the libertarians and even had more libertarian candidates themselves (Rand, Amash, Massie), especially with the clear rightward shift with the Mises Caucus taking over the party. So whoever is voting for a libertarian, probably has more left-leaning tendencies that haven’t been catered to.

Regardless, it’s always dumb when people complain about 3rd party candidates “stealing votes.”