Election 2020 – Revere Blog https://revereblog.com Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:36:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 The Effect of the Libertarian Candidate on the 2020 US Presidential Election https://revereblog.com/2020/11/libertarian-effect-2020-election/ Fri, 13 Nov 2020 19:22:23 +0000 http://revereblog.com/?p=16 The votes tabulated for the Libertarian candidate (Jorgensen) in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia far exceed the margin of victory between Trump and Biden in […]

]]> The votes tabulated for the Libertarian candidate (Jorgensen) in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Georgia far exceed the margin of victory between Trump and Biden in those states.

The Libertarians by trying to make their conservative voice heard essentially shot themselves in both feet by allowing increased government (tax-and-spend style socialism) to come into play with Biden.

(Data below as of 11/13/2020 7:30PM Central time)

Arizona
top 2 difference		Libertarian as
% of difference
Biden1,671,49149.4%10,016514%
Trump1,661,47549.1%
Jorgensen51,4551.5%
3,384,421
Georgia
top 2 difference		Libertarian as
% of difference
Biden2,472,00249.5%14,122439%
Trump2,457,88049.2%
Jorgensen62,0561.2%
4,991,938
Wisconsin
top 2 difference		Libertarian as
% of difference
Biden1,630,57049.7%20,540187%
Trump1,610,03049.1%
Jorgensen38,4151.2%
3,279,015
Pennsylvania
top 2 difference		Libertarian as
% of difference
Biden3,414,71249.9%63,056125%
Trump3,351,65649.0%
Jorgensen78,6601.1%
6,845,028

 

An article published on The Hill website on November 10, 2020, discusses this exact situation:

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/525321-does-joe-biden-owe-his-win-to-jo-jorgensen

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