Third Party Poll Numbers Are Shaking Up The 2024 Election

2024 could be the year of Third Party candidates, and right now the candidates that are NOT running as Democrats or Republicans are seeing their highest poll numbers since Ross Perot in the early 1990’s. If this trend continues, it could make for some interesting results in next year’s election. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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2024 could be the year of third party candidates and right now the candidates that are not running as Democrats, Republicans, are seeing their highest poll numbers since Ross Perot in the early 1990s. If this trend continues, it could make for some interesting developments next year. Go ahead and pick it up.

Yeah. What we've seen now is you've got Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who's polling, depending on the poll you're looking at, up to 20%. Nationally in a three-way race, 20%. Cornel West, actually not doing quite as well as I thought he would do, but he's still got several percentage points. Liz Cheney this week is now saying, you know what, I might get in. Joe Manchin might get in. Mitt Romney,

Liz Cheney. What the hell? Why is she still even around? Have we forgot about her dad? Have we forgot about how she supported her dad? Supported her dad that was responsible for millions of death. It's just, it just freaks me out a little bit that the American public forgets so easily because Liz Cheney is willing to come out and be critical of Trump. So all of a sudden.

She hates Trump. I hate Trump.

Of course.

She sat down with Rachel Maddow. I mean, Rachel Maddow that we used to know would be disgusted by Rachel Maddow of today.

Oh, of course.

She would do segment after segment attacking her.

Well, we used to do that.

We did.

We did segment after segment with Rachel Maddow years ago. I had a little segment that I did almost every morning and I don't recognize it anymore. Anyway, so I get a interesting thing about Bobby. Bobby, people know that he's a personal friend of mine and somebody sends me a note and so now he's leading, if a unity party comes together, you understand, if you have all of these independents that are running as independent, say, hey, we're now a unity party. That's dangerous. That's really. So they're really doubling up on their attack. I had somebody send me something that called my friend an monkey. I mean, you know, really. I'm sure that they were deep thinkers. But the point is, monkey or not, he's causing some real stir in this business right now, in this political.

And listen, look, Bobby was a part of the founding of Ring of Fire as well.

Right. Yeah. He helped start this program.

And there's plenty of things like I obviously totally disagree with him with. I know you disagree with plenty of it.

Yeah, of course.

But if you, let's call back to an earlier story, we were talking about Nikki Haley. What if Bobby Kennedy teams up with Nikki Haley? Because obviously she can't beat Trump in the primary. But you run as an independent, form a ticket together, suddenly you've got a juggernaut almost. Something like that together and you're shaking up the 2024 race.

But think about even bigger than that, a unity party. Where you're saying that this is, look, we're independents out here, we're disenchanted with the Republicans. We think the Democrats are nuts. Biden doesn't have a chance. This can continue to pick up, can pick up a pace. And all those people that were saying, ah, Bobby's gonna disappear. Well, no, he's not gonna disappear.

No, no. And look, we've talked plenty of times too about the need for more parties in races. Because right now, if you wanna have an impact in politics, you have to shoehorn yourself into either being a Democrat or a Republican. And most people in this country, even the ones who do shoehorn themselves in admit, I'm mostly like them, but I'm not a hundred percent. And they do things I absolutely despise, but it's my only two options. We need the door to be kicked open.

The only talking point is Bobby on vaccines, which they'd still.