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The closest a 3rd party candidate ever got was Teddy Roosevelt, Bull Moose Party in 1912, 27% of the vote, lost to Wilson, 42%. Voting for third party ensures your vote won't count for spit, but something tells me you're a Republican and that's the whole point of your op post.
https://www.pbs.org/thinktank/thirdchoice/timeline.html
That is what makes them a "third party," isn't it? When a third party starts doing well enough to win elections, they just stop being called a third party. And that has happened, or we'd be choosing between the Whigs and the Democratic-Republicans.
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The Republicans are a third party.
If 10% of the vote goes to x then there's motivation to court voters from x.
If you only vote 2 parties then you're only courting voters from the other party.