If you start up in Pennsylvania, you better have a fucking foothold before you run a candidate.
The classic response is “well we want to destroy the GOP.” What if a guy like Doug Mastriano loses his seat because you split the vote in his district?
Or in swing districts, you split the vote away from a Republican who’s indifferent about guns to get someone who’s actively trying to take them away.
Not every Republican will join or even vote for a new party’s candidates. The GOP sucks, but the DNC is way worse on a local/state level.
My recommendation: start a MAGA party that’s marketed to blue cities/suburbs. AND make an organization that claims to be non-partisan, to find ballot counters.
I like your idea about focusing in blue areas. I think if you focus the messaging on the juxtaposition to what decades of blue dominance has gotten you, compared to what you could have, it could be effective. I imagine there's going to be a lot of Biden regret. And a lot of the younger people who were manipulated into voting for him, will be feeling the brunt of it. The caveat with this strategy is that you need solid, objective, research based policies that you can enact to actually improve the area, should you win. It's not enough to get in for four years, do fuck all and deliver no noticeable improvement, other than changing the color of the district.
I live in a blue area. Most people here don’t actually like the high taxes or overregulation or most of the things that come with Democrat policies. They’ve just been conditioned to think “Dems good, GOP bad”.
Many Biden voters I’ve talked to agree with my ideas, they were just easily manipulated into hating Trump and thinking Biden was anything more than an establishment hack.
Rebranding and marketing MAGA to inner cities and getting friendly ballot counters could change these cities for the better. I’d rather focus on that because it’s less likely to bite us in the ass in the first few years.
People on here don’t seem to think of unintended consequences of a 3rd party
I don't think most people think of unintended consequences of anything. Anyone paying attention to US foreign and domestic policy for the past four decades could have and should have known that Biden was objectively worse than Trump. I didn't think Trump would come into the White House in 2016 and cure cancer or some shit. But I for sure knew he was different than what we've had. These clowns who "Vote Blue No Matter Who!", can't breathe without being told to. And the same goes for the GOP goobers who routinely elect hacks like Turtle. To fix this country, a lot of it has to come from making people think more critically and see the root causes of their woes as the problem, and not focus on the symptoms.
There are layers to awareness and you and I seem to be close to the top