Jill Stein launches Green Party 2024 presidential campaign in latest headache for Biden

Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced a 2024 campaign bid on Thursday, her third time seeking the White House after failed runs in 2012 and 2016.

Stein claimed the “political system is broken” in a video posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I’m running for president to offer a better choice for the people outside the failed two-party system,” Stein said. “We’ll put a pro-worker, anti-war, climate emergency agenda front and center in this election and on the ballot in November.”

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The Green Party candidate was accused of spoiling 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s battle against former President Donald Trump by winning progressive voters in key battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Clinton placed some blame on Stein for her loss to Trump in her 2017 book What Happened. “There were more than enough Stein voters to swing the result, just like Ralph Nader did in Florida and New Hampshire in 2000,” Clinton wrote.

Stein received roughly 1% of the popular vote in 2016 and remained unrepentant about her campaign. “I think if there’s anything to regret in this election, it’s the fact that the American people were given the two most disliked and untrusted candidates in our history. They were clamoring for more voices and more choices,” Stein said in the aftermath.

Stein previously served as the campaign manager for former Havard professor and presidential candidate Cornel West, who originally ran as the People’s Party candidate before switching to the Green Party and then ultimately running as an independent candidate in October.

Democrats have fretted that West and Rep. Dean Phillips‘s (D-MN) primary challenges against President Joe Biden could also spoil his reelection campaign and tilt the race to Trump, assuming he secures the GOP nomination. Former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s independent run is also drawing significant support.

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But Stein is undeterred.

“Political insiders always smear outsiders like us, and try to shame voters who want better choices,” Stein said. “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.”