ROUNDUP: Third-Party Candidates Take Desperate Measures

Washington, D.C. – With less than 50 days until Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris continues to build momentum among voters, and Republicans are still using dirty tricks to co-opt Jill Stein and Cornel West’s campaign to boost Donald Trump and siphon votes from the Harris-Walz ticket. 

 

Bombshell reporting from CBS News details how Republican operatives are propping up Jill Stein’s campaign in key states in effort to boost Donald Trump’s chances at the presidency. In Nevada, the Green Party is working with Jay Sekulow, the attorney who represented Trump during his first impeachment trial. In Wisconsin, Stein was represented by Michael D. Dean, who worked on behalf of Trump to overturn the 2020 election results and has worked for anti-abortion groups for decades. 

 

Stein also came under fire this week after her interview with Mehdi Hassan and made it abundantly clear that she is a fundamentally unserious candidate. Alarmingly, Stein refused to condemn Russian dictator Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, and when asked what qualifications Stein has to run the world's most powerful country, the world's biggest economy, most advanced military, she replied: "I served on the Lexington Town Council for five years." 

 

In recent interviews, Stein has eviscerated what little credibility she ever had and picked fights with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Last week on the Breakfast Club, Stein butchered question after question – unable to answer questions as simple as how many members of Congress there were. After Stein tried attacking Ocasio-Cortez, the hosts schooled Stein, saying, "The one thing AOC has done that you haven't is win some elections."

 

Meanwhile, Cornel West and Claudia de la Cruz are set to go before the Georgia Supreme Court next week to try and get back on the ballot after months of back and forth saw them booted. 

 

North Carolina voters are paying the price for the right-wing NC Supreme Court’s decision to remove RFK Jr.’s name from millions of already-printed ballots to help Donald Trump – costing one country up to $25,000 alone.

 

In Michigan, a federal judge rejected Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s request to remove his name from the state ballot just days before the ballot printing deadline. He faces a similar debacle in Wisconsin.

 

More happenings from third party candidates this week:

 

 

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