Republican allies boost longshot candidate Jill Stein as Democrats try to remove her from ballots in battleground states

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Source: CBS News

September 17, 2024 / 6:54 PM EDT


Jill Stein, now on her third run for president with the Green Party, is seen as a longshot for the White House and often called a spoiler candidate who pulls votes from the Democratic side.

Though Stein claims her candidacy has a legitimate path to victory without relying on what she calls "war machine" dollars, her campaign has accepted support from Republican allies as she works to secure ballot access in multiple states, including key battleground states like Nevada and Wisconsin, where CBS News polling shows a close race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.

In Nevada, where the Green Party was removed from the ballot earlier this month because of incorrect petition forms, according to the Nevada Supreme Court, the party is seeking reinstatement and is being represented by Jay Sekulow, an attorney who represented Trump during his impeachment trials.

"In case you missed it, the @NVSOS gave the campaign the wrong forms to use to get on the ballot. Then the dirty Dems used that technicality to sue us off the ballot - we won in lower courts, only to lose in the NV Supreme Court," Stein wrote on X last week. "Our lawyers have said that we have a case that the US Supreme Court may take which will make ripples nationwide."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-allies-jill-stein-green-party-democrats-ballots-battleground-states/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. What Stein represents to her voters:

1. A none-of-the-above candidate. Her voters want to vote for the sake of voting, but don't want to choose between the candidates that the DNC and RNC have nominated.

2. A symbol. Her voters vote for Stein because of the idealistic principles that she propounds in her campaign. Never mind that none of them can be implemented by both The House and the Senate. Or ever via Executive Orders. Her voters are voting their conscience without considering their choice is wholly vapid.

3. As a commercial product. Her voters like what they see and hear. And they vote for Stein the way consumers choose a laundry soap from the shelf of the supermarket. They believe enough to choose without thinking on their own.

4. Finally, they vote for Stein as a protest vote. To "warn" (more Democrats than Republicans) that their votes are dependent upon the adoption of Stein's platform.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. She was exposed as a Russian asset of Putin

and the reminder of that needs to be put out there for the new set of young voters who have come of age.

[ificandream]

12. Jill Stein and Michael Flynn with Putin

[travelingthrulife]

3. She has no plan or process for governing

She is just another political grifter and her supporters are being fleeced.

[betsuni]

9. Stein is a brand pretending to be all natural, organic, vegan, locally sourced, 100% recycled,

no animal testing, green energy only, socialist employee-run collective non-profit, all company spaces located on the ocean and not land stolen from the native tribes by American colonialists. Except there is no product and Stein is owned by the worst warmongering capitalist oligarchs in the world. Doesn't matter! It's not a lie if you believe it.

[GB_RN]

4. Excuse Me?!?!

A viable path to victory? In what fucking universe? On average, a total of one to three percent of the vote is NOT viable. She’s either delusional or lying to cover up the fact that she’s Putin’s useful idiot.

She’s worse than Nader was back in 2000. Screw her.🤬

[GoreWon2000]

5. Stein copying Nader 2000 in every way

It's pretty clear that Jill Stein wants to help the repugs just like Nader did in 2000. I'm not surprised that Stein is now taking repug money. The repugs spent $5 million on Nader's tv ad campaign that was run in crucial battleground states like Florida in 2000. This made it possible for bushthief to get close enough in Florida to have his little brother and Florida campaign co-chair steal the 2000 election for him. Nader has never accepted responsibility for what he did to our country in 2000 and Stein looks to be following the same Nader path. Shame on both of them. They put our country on the path to dictatorship.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. She was on the ballot here in PA in 2016

and after a bunch of years when the Green Party didn't get much more than about 10,000 - 20,000 votes, she managed to get 49,000 votes, where Hillary Clinton lost here by 44,000.

[GoreWon2000]

7. Exactly my point

The same thing happened in Michigan and Wisconsin also in 2016 so it's pretty clear that Stein helped put the orange turd in the White House in 2016 just like how Nader aided bushthief in Florida in 2000.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. She wasn't on the 2020 ballot here

but I think the 2016 fiasco was well publicized, along with her ties to Putin. So I think as long as that is put out there as a "reminder", including for the young voters who might not be familiar with her and what happened in 2016, to steer clear of her.

[MagickMuffin]

10. Jill Stein has worked so hard for the green party

I mean look how many people that are running in every state. She built ONE big coalition of ONE, herself.

Although I know someone who is fooled by her.

[GoreWon2000]

11. Stein's "efforts" helped the orange turd in 2016

and I fear that she just might do so again in 2024. Let's also not forget that Stein was at the now infamous Putin dinner in Russia along with the orange turd's first national security advisor Mike Flynn. Nader and Stein are 2 rotten peas out of the same helping repugs rotten pod.Our country will never be the same because of their "efforts" that were financed by the repugs.

[BlueWavePsych]

13. A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump.