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Will Amash tip the race to Trump? Analysts are split

By Emily Brooks
Published May 1, 2020 1:12am ET
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Will Amash tip the race to Trump? Analysts are split
FILE - This March 28, 2017, file photo shows Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., followed by Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leaving a closed-door strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington. Amash isn’t taking back his call for President Trump’s impeachment. The fourth-term congressman took considerable heat on Monday, May 20, 2019, for tweeting over the weekend that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report outlined obstruction by the president. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justin Amash’s announcement of a Libertarian presidential campaign sparked a chorus of horror and outrage from “Never Trump” Republicans and some Democrats desperate to defeat the president in November, fearing that his third-party bid could siphon votes away from Joe Biden and lead to a second term for President Trump.

But political analysts disagree on whether the 40-year-old Michigan congressman’s presence in the race would help Trump.

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