Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has endorsed Green Party nominee Jill Stein over former President Donald Trump, though Stein has rebuked the endorsement.Duke, an antisemitic white supremacist, said the candidates' stances on Israel had led him to make "one of the most important statements that I have ever made politically.
The group labels Stein as a "America's biggest scammer," comparing her to the Fyre Festival and Anna Delvey, for her role as a spoiler candidate in 2016.
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.
The non-major-party vote is likely to be small this year, but as 2016 showed, every vote matters in battleground states.
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,
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.
The Globe reported last month that Jefferson Thomas, a longtime GOP operative who heads a firm called the Synapse Group, had submitted signatures for Stein in several New Hampshire municipalities.
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.
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.
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.”
Not only is she helping Trump win—she’s destroying a once-noble party that could be doing good in this country.