How Third Party Candidates May Cause Trouble for Biden or Trump

American voters are so disillusioned by their options in the presidential election that pollsters have come up with a term for it: “Double-hater.” These are people who don’t like President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump, who leads the race for the GOP nomination. And yet, when asked by the Big Take DC podcast if an outsider candidate could break through in 2024, Ralph Nader, who ran for president outside the two major parties four times, gave a simple, “No.” Still, there are some indications that third-party candidates could cause trouble for the frontrunners.

Nader says there are too many roadblocks for a third-party candidate to contend with. “It’s the hardest democracy, so called, in the Western world, just to get on the ballot,” he says. “It was like climbing a sheer cliff with a slippery rope.”