"third-party candidates"

Alaskans were the first in the country to elect a Libertarian into a partisan office. But that political seed hasn’t grown.

Some Republicans, like incumbent state Rep. Liz Vazquez, sees many of the independents running this cycle as Democrats going by another name.

The debates will be Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump — without Jill Stein or Gary Johnson — despite high levels of voter dissatisfaction with the presidential choices.