Doctor and activist Jill Stein announced Thursday she would run for the 2024 Green Party nomination for president, NYP reported.
“The political system is broken. Over 60% of us now say the two-party establishment has failed us and we need a party that serves the people.”
Stein’s announcement of her new presidential campaign intensifies the left-wing pressure that President Biden will face in 2024. This will be her third bid after failed third-party attempts at the White House in 2012 and 2016.
I’m running for President to offer a better choice for the people. Both Democrats and Republicans have betrayed their promises again and again.
Far-left activist and professor Cornel West, formerly of the Green Party, is now running for president as an independent candidate. Environmental lawyer and anti-vaccination campaigner Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who withdrew from the Democratic primary last month, is also running as an Independent.
Biden would also be opposed by a member of his party, House Representative Dean Phillips, a Minnesota Democrat who announced his bid last month.
This week’s CNN poll revealed that former President Donald Trump was ahead of Biden by 4 percentage points in a hypothetical confrontation. The same poll showed Kennedy Jr. with 16 per cent support and West with 4 per cent of the vote in a four-way race.
“Political insiders always smear outsiders like us, and try to shame voters who want better choices. But without freedom of choice in elections, there is no democracy. It’s time to offer the American people a real choice on their ballot independent of the failed establishment.”
Stein is campaigning on a platform that includes offering “living wage jobs for all Americans,” free healthcare, housing, food and education, abolishing medical and student debt, as well as creating a “Green New Deal.” In addition, she promised to “end endless war and rampant militarism, and use diplomacy and international law to end violence, occupation, and apartheid.”
The Harvard-trained doctor received about 1.4 million votes, or 1.1% during her 2016 presidential campaign, which was far more than 469,501 votes, or 0.4 %, received in 2012.
