"Cant-idates"

The "what we do" page for the  CANTWINVICTORYFUND starts by explaining that they "Run Cant-idates to lose spectacularly in gerrymandered districts".

For most U.S. speakers, the linguistic phenomena of flapping and voicing means that "cant-idates" and "candidates" are pronounced pretty much the same way, unless the speaker is trying to make the distinction clear by glottalizing the word-final /t/, or maybe aspirating it.

Some relevant earlier posts:

"Raising and lowering those tighty whities", 3/20/2005 "Metal v. medal", 11/27/2013 "Phonology in the comics", 5/6/2016 "Geddadavit?", 12/24/2016 "Weak t", 4/6/2017 "Consonant lenition + r-less perception = FUN", 8/16/2020 "Political flapping and voicing of coronal stops", 5/29/2022 "Ron's Princibles", 8/22/2023