The last third-party candidate to win a state was former Alabama governor George Wallace, who picked off five states in the 1968 contest running on the American Independence Party ticket.
President Donald Trump declared that "American is back" during his speech Tuesday, a moment that generated a strong positive response from Republicans and independents.
"I hope this is like a cultural shift," said the sponsor behind HCR10, a resolution that celebrates the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Friedrich Merz's CDU party emerged as the largest party in Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, earning 28.6% of the vote.