"Voters hear the same message from a candidate facing off against a corporate-aligned Republican and the person does more than 10 points better if there’s an 'I' rather than a 'D' after their name."

"Leopold and his colleagues additionally found that 50 percent of rural Republicans and 77 percent (!) of beyond-the-’burbs Democrats would favor a viable new party option focused on working-class economic issues."

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Don’t Write Off a Third-Party Challenge to the Democrats
https://jacobin.com/2026/06/third-party-democrats-working-class