https://newrepublic.com/article/178175/republican-anti-trans-laws-punish-eradicate
This year, more than 200 anti-transgender bills have already been filed in the states. They are extreme. And many will pass.
It's almost like... there's a reason these 3rd party candidates aren't making it onto the big party tickets.
Well, no. The Electoral College has its own list of problems, but keeping 3rd parties out of power is not one of them.
There's two main reasons we don't have any serious third party candidates:
We have a first-past-the-post system, which mathematically results in a two-party system, and
no serious politician runs as a third party candidate, because any serious politician understands how our election system works.