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,
DNC attacks Jill Stein in new ad claiming that a vote for the Green Party candidate is a vote for Donald Trump.
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.
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 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.
Democrats launched a six-figure ad in Wisconsin Friday, highlighting how Stein could hand Donald Trump the White House.
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.”
The ad cites reporting out of the Wall Street Journal that says Republicans are boosting Stein and quotes Trump saying he likes Jill Stein.
Not only is she helping Trump win—she’s destroying a once-noble party that could be doing good in this country.
A television ad being released Friday by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in battleground states, including Michigan, makes the case that the campaign of Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein a spoiler candidate who seeks to help Republican nominee,