Heh. Jo Jorgenson is helping to sink Trump in Arizona and Georgia. (Libertarian candidate)

[yellowcanine]

She has 42K in AZ and 61K in Georgia. Trumpy must be pissed!

[TwilightZone]

1. Not sure those would have been Trump votes.

Normally, one would think so, but in this context, they could be never-Trumpers who also didn't want to vote for Biden, so they voted Jo as a protest, then supported Rs down-ticket.

Of course, Trump doesn't do nuance and would assume they would have all been his.

[beveeheart]

15. I was an election judge (Colorado) and one of my jobs was to take ballots out of envelopes

to prepare them for scanning. Every Kanye West vote I noticed had down-ticket votes for Republicans. Additionally, most of the write-ins also had Republicans down-ticket.

[TwilightZone]

22. Not surprising.

There are several states where it appears there was some ticket-splitting going on.

[cilla4progress]

2. Nothing I'd like to see more

Than a divided right.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Was Kanye still on the ballot in some states?

How many votes did he get?

[IrishEyes]

4. Kanye West Gets 60,000 Votes For U.S. President Across 12 States

https://deadline.com/2020/11/kanye-west-gets-60000-votes-across-12-states-in-u-s-presidential-race-1234608903/

Arkansas: 4,040
Colorado: 6,254
Idaho: 3,631
Iowa: 3,202
Kentucky: 6,259
Louisiana: 4,894
Minnesota: 7,789
Mississippi: 3,277
Oklahoma: 5,590
Tennessee: 10,216
Utah: 4,344
Vermont: 1,265

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/03/930950719/kanye-west-says-hes-voting-for-the-only-candidate-he-can-really-trust

[BigmanPigman]

7. I wonder how much each of those votes cost him,

I think he put some of his own money into it.

[IrishEyes]

8. It was at least 5.9 million dollars.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/blog/meet-press-blog-latest-news-analysis-data-driving-political-discussion-n988541/ncrd1239380#blogHeader

[Marius25]

14. Almost 1300 people in Vermont voted for him?

WTH

[Tanuki]

6. Here in Tennessee, Kanye got 10,216 votes, or 0.3%.

[Cha]

5. Is she rw leaning libertarian?

[grantcart]

11. Libertarians Republicans who want to smoke pot

[Cha]

16. Ah.. TY.. amazing she didn't get

more votes.

So do you think she messed with trump's totals in Arizona & Georgia?

[grantcart]

23. No one

I bet my friend, who is deep into AZ Democratic politics that she wouldn't get 2 %. Libertarians usually do well in AZ but I know people either love or hate Trump and would skip third party this time.

[Cha]

24. TY... so that's a lot of libertarians

in AZ.

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Yup, sit in their porch with a gun in one hand and a bong in the other

But even the Libertarians are split when it comes to abortion. Some think it shouldn't be legislated at all (essentially pro-choice) and others feel the fetus must be free to be born (pro-birth).

[Klaralven]

9. Her positions are pretty close to Trump's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jorgensen#Political_positions

Except for legalizing drugs, which Trump would want to keep for himself.

[Cha]

17. TY for that.. I have not paid

one bit of attention to her. Didn't even know she was a her.

[JonLP24]

19. Her criminal justice reform goes further than Trump including ending "qualified immunity"

She also supports abolishing ICE.

'Republicans who smoke pot' ... and want to abolish ICE

At a recent forum hosted by the California Libertarian Party, presidential candidates made a resounding case for open borders, as reported by debate moderator Matt Welch of Reason magazine. Their administrations would end immigration enforcement, or “Abolish ICE,” to borrow a leftist protest chant.

“It’s a police state, and there’s only one solution to it: Dismantle it all. People have a fundamental, God-given right to cross borders like human beings and not die of thirst and dehydration in the desert and on the back of eighteen-wheelers,” candidate Jacob Hornberger said.

https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-columnist/republicans-who-smoke-pot-iowa-libertarian-party-2020-presidential-candidates-20200304

[BainsBane]

10. The Jill Stein of 2020

For once it works in our favor.

[StevieM]

18. It is not clear that the Libertarian candidate takes more votes from Republicans.

A lot of people simply want to cast a protest vote, and they have vaguely heard of Libertarians. But in 2016 I saw polling which indicated that Gary Johnson was taking more votes from Clinton.

[Cha]

20. Excellent!

[democrattotheend]

12. Now I'm wondering if I should have listened to my husband

He encouraged me to vote for Jorgenson in New York to help the LP keep its ballot access, which it's in danger of losing due to Cuomo expanding the number of votes needed to keep it. I considered it, because I knew Biden didn't need my vote and I figure having Libertarians on the ballot might help Democrats in close House or legislative races in the future, but in the end I couldn't do it.

[crickets]

13. Third party candidates are a great place to peel away votes

from the main candidates and hide them. Just sayin'.

[StevieM]

21. We don't know that those votes came from Trump rather than Biden.

In 2016 I saw polling which indicated that Gary Johnson was taking more votes from Clinton than from Trump.

A lot of people just want to cast a protest vote, and are vaguely familiar with the Libertarian Party, so they pick the Libertarian candidate over other 3rd party candidates.