In 2020, Biden won the state by fewer than 21,000 votes, with no Green Party candidates on the ballot.
Four years earlier, Trump carried Wisconsin by nearly 23,000 votes, with the Green Party’s Jill Stein earning more than 30,000 voters.
When third-party candidates were added to the mix, both Biden and Trump saw their numbers fall by about 10 percentage points.
“It really brings forward the idea that the two big parties just hand us candidates to choose from,” Anderson said.
But Democrats have long viewed Stein’s campaign as one of the decisive factors in delivering Trump the state of Wisconsin and the presidency.
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