Libertarians make case to be America's third party with million-vote showing

The Libertarian Party presidential nominee crossed the 1 million vote threshold for the third straight election, this time without a prominent Republican defector on the ticket, suggesting the party may have become the default third option for disaffected voters.

Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and her running mate, Spike Cohen, have received over 1.6 million votes nationwide as of Wednesday evening. While this puts them in a distant third place behind Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the Republican ticket of President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, it is nearly 1.3 million more votes than was received by the next strongest third-party candidate, the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins.