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2. Voting 3rd party helps GOP
Wed Dec 31, 2025, 12:17 PM
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There's no better example of how voting 3rd party helps the GOP than what Nader did in 2000. I have no doubt that Al Gore would've gotten most of the 97,000 Florida votes that went to Nader. Nader got the GOP to pay for his $5 million tv ad campaign that was run in crucial states like Florida. Sadly, enough voters in Florida bought Nader's big lie that there were no differences between Al Gore and Bush. Nader was in Miami the weekend before the 2000 election. Nader made it possible for Bush to get close enough in Florida to have Bush brother Jeb and Florida Bush campaign co-chair Katherine Harris refuse to count the uncounted Florida votes which then made it possible for the GOP controlled U.S. Supreme Court to violate the U.S. constitution in order to not count all of the uncounted Florida votes and appoint Bush. It was the Supreme Court appointed Bush who put Roberts and Alito on the court which made the terrible Citizen's United ruling possible and paved the way for the catastrophic Dobbs decision. There would be no Trump today without this.

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