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We really don't...
There's Jill Stein, and if she lies about being a Russian puppet, it's absolutely illogical to believe anything she says. So I give zero ducks about what she says she'd hypothetically do.
Then there's Cornell West who got run out of the People's party.
Neither are viable. Like, literally, they're not on enough ballots to win, so voting for either is effectively leaving it blank.
Thank you for proving my point. You don't want change from the status quo, you just want to complain.
I do want to fix shit...
But there is literally no way for anyone beside trump or Harris to get enough votes in enough states to be the president this election...
You get that right? There is literally a zero percent chance someone besides those two win the election.
So if you want to fix shit, literally the only path forward is hoping we can pull Harris back to at least the center, but ideally so far that she's on the left.
If you know anyone else that has a path to the White House I haven't thought of yet, feel free to share.
YOU CONTROL WHO GETS ENOUGH VOTES.
If every person that doomerposts about how no one else could get enough votes ACTUALLY JUST VOTED third party, then that third party would win, barring elector shenanigans.
No. The electoral college determines who gets the most votes.
There's literally no candidate besides trump and Harris who are on ballots in enough states to win the election.
This is not a hypothetical.
Even if we had Gordon Bombay and literally baby Jesus just brought back to life as those candidates.
https://ballotpedia.org/Write-in_candidate
There are only two candidates for president registered and on ballots in enough states to mathematically wing the US presidency.
Literally any vote that isn't for one of them is at most a protest vote that means as much as leaving it blank.
I get it, I know it sucks, but one month before the election that's the way it is.
The chance for anyone else has passed, were lucky it's not still Biden.
Jill stein has more than 270 possible electoral votes. Since you started off with an easily disproven lie, I'll ignore the rest of your "woe is me, guess I'll have to vote for genocide and ecocide" nonsense.
Are you counting states where you can write in a party or something?
I could be wrong, but I tried to search and didn't find a result that flat out said, her website looked like, but was including states you could write in "green party" or some weird stuff
The green party via Jill Stein is on ballot for a total of 437 electoral votes (I hadn't checked since they hit 270, in May.) this does not include the additional 74 electoral votes from states with only write in ballot access.
https://www.jillstein2024ballotaccess.com/