Watch to see if the CPUSA runs a candidate next year. They didn’t in ‘08 or in ‘12 because the Democrat party’s goals were right in line with the communists. The communists decided they didn’t want to duplicate the efforts of the Dimrats and save their money.
No, the 'Rats are the Communists now, and they nominated a "New [Democrat] Party/CPUSA" guy to the big-party ticket, so why run a splinter ticket when they'd caught the brass ring?
It had been their dream since Stalin ordered Henry Wallace to run in 1948. That's when the Communist International got over their rump-party idea and decided to play for all the marbles by taking over the 'Rats. It paid off with the "reforms" of 1971 that threw almost all the old Democrats out of the "in-party" party and set up the nomination of George McGovern, a peacenik who'd been a delegate to Stalin's rump convention in 1948.
Ever since then, the Dems have been the plaything of the CPSU and now, Vladimir Putin and his gaybist goon-squad.