ICYMI: Donald Trump Supports Jill Stein’s Run,  But Not Her Own Family

“She found resistance in the most intimate constituency: her own family.”

Washington, D.C. – Today, MoveOn Political Action spotlighted a New York Times profile on Jill Stein, revealing that the Green Party candidate is backed by Donald Trump but not her own family. Since entering the race, Stein has boosted Donald Trump, downplayed his racist and violent rhetoric, and made it clear she is only interested in damaging Vice President Harris’s chances of winning the White House. Her own family has asked her to leave the race. Stein refused to back out because she’s a Republican in green clothing, and that’s why she’s continued to receive backing from Trump’s allies, donors, and attorneys.

 

In 2016, Jill Stein’s vote totals in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin alone were enough to sink Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Now, she could do it again – handing the White House to Donald Trump to enact his Project 2025 agenda.

 

Read the full piece here: Jill Stein Won’t Stop. No Matter Who Asks.

 

Jill Stein, the Green Party’s serial presidential candidate, has heard the pleading from strangers.

 

“How does it feel to be personally responsible for actually bringing Donald Trump into power?” Ms. Stein recalled being asked this year by a man in New York — another heckler accusing Ms. Stein of tipping the 2016 election.

 

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And as she weighed another campaign this time, she found resistance in the most intimate constituency: her own family.

 

“For her political activities, she does not have the support of the family,” one of Ms. Stein’s adult sons said in an interview, asking not to be identified by name to avoid any personal or professional repercussions from associating with her. “When she told us she was going to run again back in October 2023, we asked her not to.”

 

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Ms. Stein has ignored them all.

 

Now, strategists in both parties agree, her decision might well echo again through history — by helping a man whose values she nominally abhors.

 

Ms. Stein is back on the ballot almost everywhere that matters, returning to the campaign fore in an ostensible coin-flip race between Mr. Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Democrats see Ms. Stein’s bid as a direct threat in a year when even relatively small voter pools might carry near-existential stakes.

 

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In 2016, when Ms. Stein received nearly 1.5 million votes, her support in the decisive states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania exceeded Mr. Trump’s margins of victory. Some national polls now place her around 1 percent, which could be more than enough to make a difference and infuriate her detractors anew.

 

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Her bid can feel precision-engineered to damage Ms. Harris with key subgroups: young voters appalled by the United States’ support for Israel; former supporters of Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaigns who feel abandoned by Democrats; Arab American and Muslim voters, especially in Michigan, where fury at Ms. Harris and President Biden has been conspicuous for months. (The state, decided in 2016 by just over 10,000 votes, has more than 300,000 residents with Middle Eastern or North African ancestry.)

 

“The goal is to punish the vice president,” Hassan Abdel Salam, a founder of Abandon Harris, a group dedicated to her defeat, said this month at a rally in Dearborn, Mich., headlined by Ms. Stein. The group has since endorsed her.

 

“We are not in a position to win the White House,” another speaker, Kshama Sawant, a former member of the Seattle City Council, told a crowd of about 100 inside an Arab American cultural center. “But we do have a real opportunity to win something historic. We could deny Kamala Harris the state of Michigan.”

 

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“I like her very much,” Mr. Trump said of Ms. Stein at a rally in June. “You know why? She takes 100 percent from them.”

 

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In Wisconsin, a lawyer who was previously involved in lawsuits seeking to overturn the 2020 election results represented the Green Party. In New Hampshire, a veteran Republican operative submitted signatures for Ms. Stein.

 

Jay Sekulow, who defended Mr. Trump at his first impeachment trial, has worked on behalf of the Green Party in Nevada, a rare battleground where Democrats have successfully thwarted her.

 

“We have never knowingly received help from Republicans,” Ms. Stein said, a claim that Democrats find ludicrous. “Now, they might have done this once or twice, having kind of snuck in under the radar.”

 

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For months, people who know Ms. Stein — friends, relatives, long-lost peers — have discussed privately how best to get through to her.

 

They worried she was aiding Mr. Trump, despite her protestations. They believed that another dead-end campaign would undercut the ideals she claimed to embody.

 

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In recent weeks, Democratic leaders like Jaime Harrison, the party chair, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have gone out of their way to tweak Ms. Stein, whom the congresswoman described as a “predatory” figure who exploits voters’ understandable grievances.

 

Read the full piece HERE.

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