Originally posted by: MisterPicture
Robert Kennedy Jr. is seriously talking about running as an independent. And he'll take votes mostly away from criminal defendant Trump.
There will probably be several ambitious goobers looking to run as a third-party candidate. If previous history is any indication, only one will shake out and be a viable candidate. But given the razor-thin majority the RepubliQ has in many states, even a 1% defection rate (RepubliQ voters switching to the new guy) could crush them utterly.
The real question is, which hyper-radical right-wing tool will it be? Whoever it is will have no turning back, as the RepubliQ will absolutely hate his guts. But maybe he could scrape up enough contributions, a la Trump, to lose comfortably and walk away laughing with 50 million in his pocket? That was Trump's original idea in 2015, remember. He wasn't serious about actually running for President until the masses of goobers shouted for him to go ahead.