An incumbent hasn't lost his party's presidential nomination since Democrats passed over Franklin Pierce in 1856.
Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 marked the last time someone from a new party — in his case, the Republican Party — won the White House.
But with the United States deeply divided and somewhat anxious about the prospect of another Biden-Trump campaign, third party candidates insist voters are restless enough to defy history.
West announced last month that he no longer was running under the Green Party banner, but as an independent.
Democrats assume that many of voters supporting a progressive environmental activist would likely have chosen Clinton if forced to choose between the major parties.
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