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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
That's not really praise. It's a political faux pas, but this is Trump. He doesn't know any better and wouldn't care if he did.
I don't think he can do this either, because it's a tacit endorsement of the Johnson ticket. If the Libertarians were to be legitimized as a real third party option (say, by getting 15% of the national vote), it would represent an existential threat to the GOP, without a fourth party on the left to balance things out.
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I'm not sure it would represent a threat to the GOP. It still seems unclear if Gary and Co are pulling support from the Dems or the GOP. Although I assume the conventional wisdom that it is from trditional GOP voters is likely correct
However, both parties have a history of re-absorbing splinter groups by adopting some of the policies that interest the public, and abandoning the more fringy aspects. Abolitionists might be a good example of that.