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.
A young-voter advocacy group backing Vice President Kamala Harris is launching a campaign on TikTok meant to target young voters — but not necessarily those backing former President Donald Trump. Voters of Tomorrow released a series of videos Tuesday aimed at convincing young supporters of Green Party candidate Jill Stein to back Harris,
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.
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.
A war for the margins has raged quietly this year between Democrats, who tried to keep third-party and independent candidates off the ballot, and
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.