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Topic: Third Parties

Elon Musk during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, March 24, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump-Elon feud 2.0: Follow the money

Blaise Malley
Former Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., Democratic candidate for New York's 17th Congressional District, in Pearl River, N.Y., on Friday, October 18, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Third parties fight for ballot relevance

Russell Payne
Former US President Donald Trump speaks at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 15, 2022. (ALON SKUY/AFP via Getty Images)

Is Trump open to third-party bid?

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Joe Biden, Andrew Yang and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Andrew Yang won't go away: Is that good?

Brian Karem
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Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How bad will it be if Trump wins?

Bob Cesca
Democratic donkey and Republican elephant butting heads (Getty Images/teddyandmia)

Can multi-party democracy save America?

David Daley
Howard Schultz (AP/Elaine Thompson)

Howard Schultz's vanity run: Please, no

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Evan Vucci/Getty/Drew Angerer/Salon)

Didn't vote for Clinton? This is on you

Matthew Rozsa
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Why vote libertarian?

Matthew Rozsa
Gary Johnson (AP/Rick Bowmer)

libertarians to the rescue!

Matthew Rozsa
Mitch McConnell; Charles Schumer (Getty/Alex Wong/Mark Wilson)

We need a centrist party now

Greg Orman, Charles Wheelan
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Stein says she's no spoiler

Daniel P. Franklin, Abigail C. Bowen, Judd Thornton - The Conversation
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Evan McMullin; Donald Trump (Getty/George Frey/AP/Mark Humphrey)

Mormons vs evangelicals

Matthew Sheffield
Jill Stein, Gary Johnson (AP/Erik Kabik/Reuters/Lucas Jackson)

Can a third party ever win?

Matthew Rozsa
Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 28, 2016. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)

The moral case for Clinton

Matthew Rozsa
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Defending the undecided voter

David Sirota
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Third-party smackdown

Edward McClelland
David Walker (AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Americans Elect fizzles

Alex Pareene
Thomas Friedman (AP)

Friedman dreams of Bloomberg

Alex Pareene
Michael Bloomberg and Erskine Bowles (AP/Reuters)

Politico's fantasy presidential candidates

Alex Pareene
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