Good news for Kamala Harris on third-party candidates

In recent days a Democrat-aligned group has challenged Robert F. Kennedy junior’s right to be on the ballot in Pennsylvania, New York and Illinois, hoping to hobble the idiosyncratic independent candidate. And officials in Wisconsin dismissed an attempt by Democrats to remove Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, from the ballot in that swing state. The logic of these legal challenges is straightforward: for much of the campaign third-party candidates appeared to be siphoning support from the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden. But now that Ms Harris has replaced him, this reasoning may be flawed.