[grania]

I've expressed this thought on other threads: Won't the traitors abandoning the Republican Party make fed up Independents and Bernie supporters MORE likely to support Trump?

It adds credence to hillary being part of the uniparty elitists who've worked so hard to destroy the US.

[Leaning Right]

Won't the traitors abandoning the Republican Party make fed up Independents and Bernie supporters MORE likely to support Trump?

I think not. A third-party candidate who is presented as a "reasonable" (non-scary) outsider would draw votes from Trump, not from Hillary. Such a candidate could draw just enough votes from Trump to throw the election to Hillary. And that's their goal anyway.