What is a 'third-party' candidate?

What is a 'third-party' candidate?

Thea Brodkin (Voter Service Chair) gives expert video advice on: How are presidential candidates selected?; Can I affect who is selected as a presidential candidate?; What happens at a national convention? and more...

We call third-parties anybody that isn't Democratic or a Republican in the United States. We have had very active third-party candidate campaigns and they have their own platforms and there's a reason they're running and because they have something to say that the Democrats and the Republicans are not saying.