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Where is the pro-choice, pro-gun third party candidate? by ndgenius

Wouldn't that hit enough checkboxes to have a fighting chance in the election?

I'd like to elect an independent thinker or at least one who purports to be one. Unfortunately once the candidate is selected by the Rep or Dem, they are forced to go down the rabbit hole of whatever the extreme of the party wants them to otherwise they're a "fake candidate." RINO seems to be the popular term for the republicans (not sure what it is for Dems).

Sadly Trump is honestly probably that pro-choice, pro-gun type candidate if you put him on truth serum but he knows that to be the "deity" he wants to be, he needed to be pro-life and elect Supreme Court Justices that please that faction of people.

I still lean Republican and honestly liked a lot of the policies that Trump was doing but I just hate him so much and will go a 3rd election without writing his name down...I just don't want to leave it blank for the 2nd time in the last 3 elections.