Jill Stein adds to Biden’s 2024 problems (msn.com) Stein, who announced on Thursday that she would seek the Green Party nomination for the second time, is considered a fringe and intrusive figure to many Democrats who think she played spoiler to Hillary Clinton’s White House campaign against Donald Trump. Her third-party candidacy is now one of a half dozen bids from the left, center and independent spectrum that could damage Biden in the race, bringing attention to the president’s limitations as the Republican field primary shrinks. And it came the same day Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) announced he is not seeking reelection, raising speculation that he could also seek the Oval Office next year. Stein’s case for her candidacy, as she tells it, is to “offer a choice for the people outside the failed two-party system,” an increasingly dominant theme in an election with two unpopular front-runners that’s now less than a year away. All we need now is Joe Manchin to jump in, that would make very interesting
Anyone voting for Jill Stein would likely abstain in the general. Probably negligible impact in my wild ass guessing.
If the election is really close Stein could make a difference although I think it will be less likely this time around than it was in 2016. I don't think the far lefties who would vote for her are as pissed off at Biden as they were at Hillary the last time she ran and this time around they have a much better picture of the real Trump then they did in 2016 and for that reason more likely to hold their noses and vote for Old Joe then they were for "Crooked Hillary' eight years earlier.
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