As of Saturday, May 16, both Justin Amash and Jesse Ventura have announced that they will not mount third-party candidacies for President. Amash ruled out such a run on Saturday; Ventura ruled it out a week or so earlier.
Their decisions leave the Libertarian Party, whose nomination Amash was hoping to seek, and the Green Party ,whose nomination Ventura was looking at going for, with no obvious presidential candidates that have the appealing quirkiness of a Gary Johnson or the media savvy of a Jill Stein, and certainly no candidates with the celebrity status of Amash or Ventura. Both men must have also seen how the minor-party vote - which totaled 6 percent in 2016 - is expected to be much smaller in 2020 because Republicans are sticking with Trump and Democrats are sticking with Joe Biden. Democratic-leading voters especially don't want to vote for a third-party presidential nominee and help Trump. And surveys showed that both Amash and Ventura would have taken more votes from Biden than from Trump.
Joe Biden can breathe a little more easily now, but he still has some challenging days ahead. And, I would add, so does Trump.
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