Warning Stakes ‘Could Not Be Higher,’ European Greens Call On Jill Stein to Drop Out | “Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/will-jill-stein-drop-out
by crustose_lichen
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In 2016, Jill Stein helped Donald Trump win the election. She won 132,000 votes in the decisive swing states — Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania — while Trump’s margin of victory was just 77,000 votes in those same states.
When confronted about being a spoiler for Trump, [Stein remained unapologetic](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/20/jill-stein-green-party-no-regrets-2016-215281) and said she doesn’t have second thoughts. She has said it’s a “badge of honor” to be blamed for Trump’s 2016 victory and considers it a “[great honor](https://youtu.be/xbjq0I98Hd8)” to be compared to Ralph Nader and his spoiler campaign. Her campaign surrogates admit she has [no path to victory](https://x.com/keithedwards/status/1843301144577405311) and that their top priority is [stopping Kamala Harris](https://x.com/keithedwards/status/1844109702764036515).
Reporting from The Wall Street Journal and [Salon](https://www.salon.com/2024/09/23/jill-stein-paid-100000-to-a-consulting-firm-led-by-a-suspected-january-6-rioter/) revealed how the Stein campaign used a Republican consulting firm to help her get on the ballot, and in a recent court case in Nevada, Stein was represented by Trump’s former personal attorney, Jay Sekulow.
Stein has had [troubling ties to Vladimir Putin](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696) and her spoiler campaign benefitted from a Russian disinformation campaign in 2016. A [Senate Intelligence Committee](https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/18/politics/hillary-clinton-tulsi-gabbard/index.html) report found that Russian social media efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election included messaging in support of Stein. Additionally, the [Mueller Report](https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/30/politics/jill-stein-russia-documents-senate-request/index.html) found that the Kremlin’s Internet Research Agency used social media, including paid Facebook ads, to promote Stein’s candidacy. On June 22, 2024, Trump held a rally in Philadelphia, PA where he said [“Jill Stein, I like her very much. You know why? She takes 100% from them.”](https://www.c-span.org/video/?536453-1/president-trump-holds-rally-philadelphia)
I called her a profanity and was deleted.
Stein works for Russia and Putin, she doesn’t care if european green parties don’t like her.
In 2028, we have to elect a non-treasonous green party candidate in the 2028 green party presidential primary.
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Jill Stein is a Trump loving fascist. She wants Trump to win.
Wanting there to be a third option and there being a third option are two completely different things. The entities that want to hurt democrat chances by the margins know that an appeal to our better nature is the best path. There’s too much at stake to make a protest vote. If you support having other options then continue to support that 100 other ways. We have to pick the option that keeps our planet inhabitable. No one can live well on a planet that’s unlivable.
Jill stein is grifter. Her campaign is a way she makes money. She sucks and shiuld drop out.
She won’t. She’s a parasite and a disgrace to the Green Party
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Jill Stein is employed by an authoritarian 🤷🏻♂️
People don’t vote for third-party candidates instead of Democrats/Republicans. They vote for third-party candidates instead of not voting.
I know someone who is supporting Stein, all they do is bash Kamala and they never bring up a single thing Trump says or does. Everything is about Gaza to them, real single issue voter mentality going on, also whenever you try to tell them how dangerous it is for Trump to regain executive power all you are met with is the same old tired “both sides are the same cause Israel”, and “fascism is already here” arguments. I swear they work harder for the Kremlin than Stein does herself.
She is a SHILL for Putin and Trump. How obvious does it have to be. She won’t condemn the Ukraine war. She only involves herself in Gaza…. to take away votes in Michigan. SAME AS LAST TIME
Asking Jill to drop out isn’t going to help. If you want people to listen to you, then you have to pay more than the Russians.
Everyone complains about the 2-party system but when elections actually come, the “stakes are too high” to risk the Bad Orange man. Stein is a Harvard-educated physician and one of the only politicians in the U.S. giving the climate crisis the attention it deserves.
Disagree with her strategy, but calling her a “parasite,” a “disgrace,” or a “grifter” is shameful at best. Republicans and Democrats are leading us to extinction. Be the change you want to see.
Blaming Jill Stein for Trump 2016 is letting progressive voters who didn’t show up to vote for Clinton off the hook too easily. Progressive purity politics caused Trump in 2016 and will likely do it again this year.
I could of sworn Jill stein was exposed back in 2016 as a Russian plant to draw environmentalist votes away from the democrats – is this not true?
Of course they do. They wouldn’t want to upset Israel.
Ross Perot proved that 3rd party candidates cannot win. He took in over 19 million votes for 18 percent of the total votes cast but won exactly 0 electoral college votes. You can’t win the presidency by getting a large smattering of votes from all over, you need to win the electoral votes of an entire state to get on the scoreboard. 3rd party options are a nice dream but unusable in reality.
Their mistake is thinking that the American Green Party actually acts in good faith.
this is again why we desperately need ranked choice voting. Then this exact situation would not be happening. But since we are where we are, she needs to step aside. Meanwhile, RFK can siphon Trump voters
nothing will change with a D in power… just like it hasn’t in the last 12 out of 16 years.
Too late, she would’ve had to drop months ago.
The left falls victim to cults of personality just like the right does. Stein voters see her as their golden goddess and believe she’d do everything she says. They fail to realize that she is only another bourgeoisie capitalist seeking to profit off of donors and naivete. Knowing her anti war stance, if she were to somehow be elected and ordered Israel to stop after ceasing arms deals, why would they listen? They know she wouldn’t intervene because that would go against everything she stands for. Thus the genocide would continue, her followers would be disappointed let down, and She would instantly fold to the war pigs and military officials. She has no credibility, no clout, no reliability. Nothing to show for herself. She does no work to be a successful politician. She is a fraud and a shill, bought out by Putin and Republican donors.
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