'I think we are at that crossroads where this kind of change can happen,' the congressman from Michigan said, discussing his bid for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination.
Amash asserted that he aims to represent the Americans frustrated with the current political divide."I think we are at that crossroads where this kind of change can happen," he said.
Any third-party candidate would face an uphill battle to win the presidency. The U.S. political system has been dominated by the two-party system for decades, with only one independent serving in the House of Representatives, and just two serving in the Senate. The Libertarian Party's 2016 presidential nominee, Gary Johnson, garnered only 3.27 percent of the national popular vote, which was the political party's best-ever election result.
"He can siphon enough votes from the Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, to hand the election to Trump," former Republican Representative Joe Walsh of Illinois, who unsuccessfully mounted a GOP primary challenge to Trump, wrote in an opinion article for."And you don't have to be happy with your choices at this point to see that the only candidate who can beat Trump is the Democratic Party nominee.
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