“The political system is broken. Both sides are at the behest of Wall Street. More than 60 percent of us now say that the two-party establishment has failed us and that we need a party that serves the people. “My name is Jill Stein and I am running for president to give citizens this choice.”, the Green Party candidate says in a video on her campaign website. Few people outside the United States have heard of it. And even within the country, many are likely unaware that on November 5, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will not be the only candidate for the White House.
However, there are several who try to exist between the two democratic giants and republican. And its results could be decisive in elections that will take place on the margins, where each vote obtained by the The “small” candidates will have one less vote for the two favorites. The best known, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who competed under his own colors, decided at the end of August to support Donald Trump. A relief for the former president, who, however, could not prevent the candidacy of another outsider, Chase Oliver, 39, under the banner of the Libertarian Party, a party among the best established in the country and whose support the billionaire expected. .
But it is without a doubt Kamala Harris who has the more to lose with the dispersion of votes. Is The candidacy, which replaced that of Joe Biden, did not deter several contenders from running. Starting with Jill Stein, 74, who is launching again after two previous attempts, in 2012 and 2016. Eight years ago, the environmentalist had collected 1.4 million votes, or 1.1% of the votes. At the time, she was accused of giving a significant, even decisive, boost to Donald Trump by alienating progressive voters from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania, Michigan and the Wisconsin, three key states.
We could well say it immediately: none of them have the lower chances of winning. In the United States, the presidential election, based on indirect universal suffrage in one round, is a complex process. The president is not elected directly by the Americans but by the fifty states of the country through a college of 538 electors responsible for representing them. The goal is to get 270 votes to win the bet.
“These small candidates come from organizations that sometimes have existed for a long time but do not always have a structure, at the state level, that allows them to compete with the two main parties,” says Tammy Greer, assistant professor of public policy at the University of Georgia. This What complicates the task of these candidates to achieve a first but essential step is to ensure that their last name appears written on the voting ballots of each of the candidates. States. An arduous, expensive and bureaucratic, knowing that the requirements are different from one to another. the names of Therefore, presidential candidates vary from one territory to another.
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