The co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” are warning about what they see as the risk of third-party presidential candidates becoming spoilers in the 2024 election.
On Monday, Ana Navarro recalled the 1992 election when Ross Perot ran as a third-party candidate and was perceived as a spoiler for President George H.W Bush’s re-election bid.
“In that case, you had George Herbert Walker Bush, who’s a sane, good, normal human being running against Bill Clinton,” she said.
She added, “He was a ho, but he was a normal, good, human being.”
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Wallowing in hysterics, Ana Navarro proclaims now is not the right time for third parties because Trump is an "existential threat…to the universe." pic.twitter.com/jIGJfvrRIB
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 29, 2024
While Navarro suggested Perot may have had an impact on the 1992 election that still led to as she said a “normal, good human” being elected, she sought to draw a distinction from the 2024 election.
She added:
“In this case, you have got Joe Biden, a sane, decent, normal human being running against a man who is an existential threat to democracy, and to the foreign world, to the international world, to the universe!”
Navarro argued, “So this is not a normal, ‘Oh, you know what, we can afford to have a spoiler.'”
Her comment comes as RealClearPolitics’ average of polls shows former President Donald Trump leading President Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2024 match-up.
However, polls have shown many Americans are not looking forward to having to pick between the two men.
And as a result, there has been significant interest in third party presidential candidates — even if their chances of winning appear rather slim.