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I have never heard of Jill Stein until just a few months ago when I saw some article about her on the Lemmy homepage. Then I saw more and more articles about her. However, I don't really know why the media is paying so much attention to her. She is just a third party candidate, right? There are other third party candidates that aren't constantly popping up in the news. So why Jill Stein? I hear its something to do with Russia and a general sense of her goal being to take votes away from Kamala.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago

Jill Stein is a Green candidate which means she's going to pull left leaning support away from Kamala Harris.

If she pulls away enough people in a handful of states, she could throw the election to Donald Trump.

2016 is a primary example:

Pennsylvania:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Pennsylvania

Trump - 2,970,733
Clinton - 2,926,441
Difference: 44,292
Stein? - 49,941

Michigan:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Michigan

Trump - 2,279,543
Clinton - 2,268,839
Difference: 10,704
Stein? - 51,463

Wisconsin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin

Trump - 1,405,284
Clinton - 1,382,536
Difference: 22,748
Stein? - 31,072

If Clinton had won those three states, Trump would not have been President.

Stein is not the only factor, Clinton had other issues. She badmouthed coal miners which guaranteed a loss in PA and utterly failed to campaign in MI and WI which was not helpful.

But the Clinton fans who can't accept how deeply, deeply flawed Clinton was as a candidate want to blame Stein...

And Putin. There are issues with Stein getting support from both Republicans and Russia, anything to hurt Democratic candidates.