Americans are tired of Trump and Biden. But few establishment politicians want to challenge them in 2024. That's led to an odd primary field.
And yet: Despite the obvious and excessive fringe-candidate energy of this election cycle, there are stunningly few third-party candidates. Never have Americans been so dissatisfied with the options on offer from the two major parties, and never, at least in the past three decades, has a third-party candidate seemed less viable.
There are a handful of explanations. First, many of the wingnuts, whom one might expect to run on an alternative ticket, have signed up to run within the confines of the major party primaries. RFK Jr., whose platform and policies—predilections might be a more appropriate word here—would alienate him from even the strangest of third-party ballot lines, has decided to run as a regular old Democrat.
Explaining this on the Republican side is more difficult, because the fringe candidates are kind of indistinguishable from the mainstream ones. Larry Elder, a former conservative talk-radio host who got mythically bludgeoned in his attempt to unseat California Gov. Gavin Newsom, would probably qualify as fringe in this moment. Same for Perry Johnson, the “quality guru” who failed to qualify for the ballot in his attempt to become Michigan’s governor in 2022.
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