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President Barack Obama warned in a radio interview on Wednesday that Americans who vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson or Green Party candidate Jill Stein in November risk putting Donald Trump into the White House, as he sought to blunt momentum for third-party candidates.
“If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for Trump,” Obama said in an interview on the Steve Harvey Morning Show. “If you vote for a third-party candidate who’s got no chance to win, that’s a vote for Trump.”
Johnson, a former Republican governor of New Mexico, in particular appears to be drawing support from Clinton. While she holds about a 2.3 percentage-point advantage over Trump in an average of head-to-head polls calculated by RealClearPolitics, her lead falls to about 1.6 percentage points when Johnson and Stein are included. Johnson is supported by about 7.4 percent of voters, on average, and Stein by about 2.4 percent, according to RealClearPolitics.
Democrats have also worried that a drop in turnout among black voters and young people could make it harder for Clinton to win in several swing states. Trump has spent weeks making an overt appeal to minority voters, saying Clinton sees them only as votes and doesn’t care about their issues.
“My legacy’s on the ballot,” Obama said. “I don’t want anybody to stay home thinking this is any less important than 2008 or 2012.”
The president used the example of the period between the Civil War and the civil rights movement to argue that progress he has achieved as the first black president could be rolled back by a Trump administration.
Sexism may be hurting Clinton’s campaign as well, Obama said.
“People just do not give her credit,” he said. “And part of it may be because she’s a woman, and we have not elected a woman president before.”
Looks like they are panicking crying about 3rd parties and trying to guilt people into voting for Hillary. Has anybody told Obama that if she was a male she would have no political standing just from the things she has said about Bill's victims?
The woman crap is so stupid. Obama really takes us for a bunch of fools. More sexist, racist crap to turn us against each other.
Funny how Obama starts with his "a vote 3rd party is a vote for Trump" about the same time the media decides to go hard on Johnson.
We are so being played its not even funny. Sadly, its the supposed "smart" "educated" people who cannot see through any of it.
Voting for a 3rd party is a vote for the 3rd party. Saying it is a vote for Trump sounds like Obama believes they own your votes. Why doesn't Obama tell us what Hillary is gonna do to earn those votes? Jobs? Economy? Trans Pacific Agreement, remember that? Obama & Hillary was pushing hard for that and trying to fast track a vote in congress in 2014 right under our noses.
The woman crap is so stupid. Obama really takes us for a bunch of fools. More sexist, racist crap to turn us against each other.
Funny how Obama starts with his "a vote 3rd party is a vote for Trump" about the same time the media decides to go hard on Johnson.
We are so being played its not even funny. Sadly, its the supposed "smart" "educated" people who cannot see through any of it.
Um, his supporters are fools as Mr. Gruber and obama surely know.
We already know he isn't that bright, so who would be surprised. Voting for a 3rd party candidate is just that, thus why they say "voting for a 3rd party candidate". I thought he laid off the hard drugs.
Who cares what Obama says as he starts his fade into history with not much to show for it.
We all know why he said it, he is a dopey shill for Hillary. He should go and stay on the golf course like he does every time there is a US tragedy.
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