Sarah Bedford gave her forecast of what a third-party candidate could do to disrupt the 2024 elections.
Bedford appeared on Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto Friday to answer Cavuto’s question about the effect a “disgruntled Republican” would have if he or she left the Republican primary race and ran as a third party instead.
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“If by ‘disgruntled Republican leaving the race’ you mean Donald Trump, I think that would effectively hand the presidency back to Joe Biden because it would split the Republicans down the middle,” Bedford explained.
“If it’s anyone who runs as a third party candidate, they are going to siphon off some of those suburban moms, those college-educated white-collar workers who don’t really want to vote for Joe Biden, but they don’t have an alternative right now,” she continued.
This group of Republican voters is looking for a candidate because “it’s not socially acceptable for them to vote for a Donald Trump if he was the Republican nominee,” according to Bedford, which could flip key states away from President Joe Biden, thus allowing his opponent to win instead.
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Currently, liberal activist Cornell West is running for president in 2024 under the Green Party ticket, but he initially announced his campaign under the People’s Party.
Biden is facing off author Marianne Williamson and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump faces off against 13 other Republican candidates for the GOP nomination.
