The Green Party candidate has around 1 percent of the vote, which Democrats fear could disrupt the razor-thin margins in this year's election.
Democrats are arguing in a new pitch to swing state voters that a vote for Green Party nominee Jill Stein would only help elect former President Trump. An ad released Thursday says Stein was “key” to Trump’s victory in the battleground states in 2016 that clinched him the presidency and is “not sorry” for it,
The non-major-party vote is likely to be small this year, but as 2016 showed, every vote matters in battleground states.
Stein is only polling near 1 percent in most polls, but Harris advisers fear even that margin could prove decisive in race against Trump.
The ad comes as the Harris campaign has repeatedly accused Stein of being “propped up” by Republicans in an attempt to swing the election in Trump’s favor.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose’s office disqualified the Green Party presidential nominee after getting a withdrawal letter from Stein’s running mate. But Stein’s campaign claims the letter was written behind the candidate’s back.
Jill Stein has said she would have to look at the charges and sentences of January 6 rioters to determine whether she would pardon them or not. Hundreds of MAGA supporters have been handed sentences for their part in breaching the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the President Joe Biden 's 2020 election win.
Not only is she helping Trump win—she’s destroying a once-noble party that could be doing good in this country.
The ad cites reporting out of the Wall Street Journal that says Republicans are boosting Stein and quotes Trump saying he likes Jill Stein.
Stein has been a perennial candidate who also ran on the Green Party ticket in 2016 and 2012. Her campaign has focused on opposition to U.S. support for Israel in its brutal war in Gaza, calling it a “genocide” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “war criminal.”
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has filed a lawsuit in federal court over the decision of Ohio election officials not to count votes for her after her running mate was named by the national party after a state administrative deadline.