Third-Party panic ensues across liberal media as pundits portray 'threat to democracy'

Third-party candidacies have caused major panic among left-leaning media pundits as they sound the alarm over threats to democracy and suggested people supporting such candidacies were throwing their votes away.

Figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for the White House as an independent, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who is mulling a run himself, have raised alarm that they could siphon valuable votes away from President Biden and deliver victory to former President Trump.

Tara Setmayer, a senior advisor to The Lincoln Project and a frequent guest on MSNBC, said Wednesday that this election would be no different from past third-party spoilers.

"I think that third-party candidates are spoilers. History could potentially repeat itself again, and now more than ever, the idea of a third party is a threat to our democracy. This is not the time for this. I understand the frustration that the American electorate has. People always express a certain amount of frustration with the two-party system, but that's the system we have. We’re not in a position now where we have two candidates who are equal threats to our democracy," she said.

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Setmayer added that Trump was a "threat to our democratic system."

She scolded voters who think Biden is too old and said they need to "take a step back" and look at the choices.

"Third parties do not work. They’re spoilers. If you want Donald Trump to win the election, then go ahead, throw your vote away and vote third party. If you don’t, and you want to maintain our democracy and work within our system to reform it, maybe down the line, there can be an opportunity to have ballot access or a