How does ranked choice voting work?
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Short version, the voter ranks their choices of candidates in order from most prefered to least.
If their most preferred candidate doesn’t make the cut, because not enough other voters likd them, then their ballot is examined and their vote is recorded as casting for their second preference.
Votes are tallied again, least popular is dropped. Anybody whos ballot had them in the lead is now looked at for second preference…
So voting for your first preference does not mean your second choice is hurt. You don’t “spoil the vote” this way, and are not pushed to vote for “the lesser evil”
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