David Weigel: “The unprecedented Biden-Harris switch added a frisson of chaos to this race, while also making it far more normal. Every third party candidate expected to benefit from voter dread about the unpopular red and blue choices. And much of that dread is just gone.”
“What the major parties see now is a small third party vote that hits differently in different swing states — Stein/West as a Democratic problem in Michigan, Kennedy as a Republican problem in the rest.”
“That’s where the money’s going. West’s gotten some GOP help in securing ballot access, and a new super PAC has been sending mail to Pennsylvania voters, ‘warning’ them that Kennedy is a ‘pro-choice, progressive Democrat’ who ‘wants to raise taxes on the top 1%.’ That’s happening because Kennedy, who was embraced by conservative media during his brief Democratic primary campaign, is now mostly drawing voters whose second choice is Trump, not Biden.”
