Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his personal office Sunday, and it has spread to his bones.
“Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said.
It is possible for a third party to arise in FPTP elections, but it’s certainly not common or easy. The UK has a bunch; NZ had a couple before moving to MMP; I think Australia has some.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
AOC might pull it off.
It also usually causes the party they broke off from to lose higher offices a few times because the two sides of the schism don’t have enough power individually to win the bigger contests. Until one of them swallows the other.
The right avoided this by doing their “reform” from within, aka the Tea Party.
No, she won’t. She will take with her a third of the party while the rest don’t want Republicans to win and then the Republicans win.
If democrats don’t want to split the vote, they don’t have to field a candidate.
They will though, because they don’t want to give up control and power as well as all the money that gives them.
They would have to be aware enough to understand that they are not going in an appropriate direction, which would allow them to adjust their strategy to better align themselves with the voter base. That would invalidate the need for a third party, but compromise they idiology they have adopted fervently that has lead to failure at the polls.
Whats wrong with AOC that the centrists wouldnt back her?
She is too left and will disrupt their boat, and by boat I mean capital gains and passive income.
It would have to be in a single district; attempting multiple would definitely fail.
NZ has had a number of individual electorates where the Greens* won the seat, Labour came second, and National 3rd. With a sufficiently left-wing area and a galvanised base, it’s possible.
NZ is not the US. They do not operate the same and are not capable in America’s “democratic” system.