The pandemic may keep Libertarian and Green party nominees off the ballot in many of this year’s key states
, a former California judge and Johnson’s 2012 running mate, jumped in the race, defining himself to the libertarianmagazine as “an incrementalist and a pragmatist.” Gray had been supporting the Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat-turned-Libertarian Lincoln Chafee, but stepped in after Chafee suspended his campaign in early April.
And while his poll numbers could change if an announcement generated a lot of news coverage, Amash is not starting from a strong position; athis week pegs his support in a three-way race with Trump and Biden at a scant 1 percent. Such anemic numbers wouldn’t help him convince party delegates that he possesses any special ability to help the party clear the 5 percent popular-vote threshold.
“Judges aren’t truly insulated from public sentiment about anything,” said Magarian. “If the public broadly wanted for minor parties to be able to compete more robustly in elections, I think courts would feel at least some background pressure to take minor parties’ complaints about ballot access seriously. Instead, my sense is that the public and most opinion leaders tend to view minor parties as troublemakers, spoilers and refuges for unserious political obstructionists.
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