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Here's John Bachelor.

I welcome Salina Zito of the Washington Examiner the Pittsburgh Post

Gazette the New York Post to comment on this question here the beginning of the

the 2020 election cycle for president.

Can a third party win in the United States

as we now understand our electoral process.

Salina, a very good evening to you, this is a column you have up at the Washington

Examiner and it came about for an anecdote a conversation with a voter in Pennsylvania.

Can a third party win?

You consult scholars about this matter.

What would a third party look like for Pennsylvania?

Would it look like Joe Manchin?

Good evening to you. Good good evening thanks so much for

having me on so you know it the third party candidates or the ideal of one

especially with so many people dissatisfied with both front runners right

now, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, in the polling, has always been based on the third party candidate trying to achieve

the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the presidential nomination.

And that today just cannot happen. And so the problem with third party

candidacy and how they've been structured is they're always still going

for 270 where what they should do is go for just enough

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