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Doyle McManus: Third-party candidates could (actually) swing the election — putting Biden in real danger of losing

This year's presidential election campaign is likely to be remembered as a year in which voters pondered a rematch no one really wanted. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are likely to win their parties' nominations. Yet a recent Associated Press-NORC poll found that 58% of Americans dislike the idea of Trump running again, and 56% are unhappy with Biden for staying in the ...
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein waits to speak at a news conference on Fifth Avenue across the street from Trump Tower Dec. 5, 2016, in New York City.

This year's presidential election campaign is likely to be remembered as a year in which voters pondered a rematch no one really wanted.

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are likely to win their parties' nominations. Yet a recent Associated Press-NORC poll found that 58% of Americans dislike the idea of Trump running again, and 56% are unhappy with Biden for staying in the race.

That gives an enormous amount of power to those who dislike both, the "double haters."

That happened in 2016,

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