What Would Your Ideal Third Party Stand For?

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang together with dozens of other Democratic and Republican politicians announced on Wednesday that they're launching Forward, a new political party designed to appeal to centrists. But historically, third political parties have gained little traction in the United States. We'll talk about why and what could be different this time. And we'll hear from you: Would you support a third political party? What would it stand for? Guests: Eric Schickler, co-director, Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley Mindy Romero, founder and director, Center for Inclusive Democracy, formerly the California Civic Engagement Project - a non-partisan research center at the University of Southern California Tina Nguyen, national correspondent and founding partner, Puck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on Forum, Americans are clearly frustrated with our two-party system.
1:32.3	Gallup found earlier this year the desire for a national third party to be at a record high,
1:37.3	a stat cited this week by Andrew Yang and others as they announced their new Forward Party.
1:43.3	But third parties have struggled to
1:45.7	amass the political power needed to challenge the dominance of Democrats and Republicans
1:50.1	or have been viewed as spoilers. So are things different now? We look at third parties in
1:56.6	national and California politics and hear from you, have you, would you support a third party?
2:02.6	What would its platform be?
2:04.4	Join us.
2:10.9	This is Forum.
2:12.4	I'm Mina Kim.
2:13.8	Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, former New Jersey Governor, Chrissy Todd Whitman and other independent, Republican and Democratic politicians announced this week, they're launching forward a new centrist political party that they say will be fueled by today's disenchanted voters and will succeed where other national third parties have historically failed. For more on that,
2:36.0	we're joined first by Tina Wend, National Correspondent and Founding Partner of Puck, a digital
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