Jill Stein Has the Last Laugh: Green Party Triumphs as Democrats Face Devastating Defeat in Wisconsin

Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential nominee, had a lot in common with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the (now-former independent presidential candidate). Both were the focus of the Democrat Party’s legal teams at both the state and federal levels. They fought in court to keep Stein, Kennedy, and Cornel West off the ballots in November in all 50 states.

Kennedy slammed Democrats at the DNC who spoke loudly about voting rights and democratic principles but went to unprecedented lengths to suppress third-party candidates.

Kennedy, after a New York court hearing on a ballot-access case, said, “The DNC in Chicago is talking about their commitments to voting rights while they are spending tens of millions, or even hundreds of million dollars, to keep me out of the ballot.”

Stein posted some receipts to her Twitter/X account, showing that Democrats did more than just engage in lawfare against her campaign.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court gave her the victory she deserved on Monday.

Jill Stein, presidential candidate of the Green Party in Wisconsin, will stay on the ballot, according to the state’s Supreme Court. The court announced that a Democratic challenge on her ballot access was moot after declaring it moot Monday.

The court members did not sign the three-page ruling, but it was a major victory for Ms. Stein, who is running as a third-party candidate in the 2020 presidential election. This is because the Green Party has been disqualified in Wisconsin. Ms. Stein, a minor leftist candidate, could pose a threat to the prospects of Vice President Kamalah Harris in Wisconsin. Recent presidential elections in Wisconsin have been decided by razor-thin margins.

The order stated that “IT IS ORDERED” that the petition to initiate an original action was denied. “We find that the petitioner does not have the right to relief that he is seeking; it is further ordered that all other motions pending are dismissed as moot.”

David Strange was the petitioner, as noted in the order. He was “individually, and in his capacity as Deputy Operation Director-Wisconsin, for the Democratic National Committee.” Strange had argued the Green Party’s lack of statewide officeholders or candidates meant that they could not legally nominate presidential electors.

Many Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, the twice-failed presidential nominee, blame Stein for Clinton’s loss in the 2016 presidential election.

Stein was last on the Wisconsin ballot in 2016, where she received just over 31,000 voters, which is more than Trump’s margin of victory (just under 23,000). Some Democrats blamed Stein for helping Trump to win Wisconsin and the presidential election that year.

Even left-wing media outlets such as Vox.com have disputed these claims, which were based on a 2016 post-election study that found them to be lacking.

It is a very different situation from Florida in 2000. Only a fraction of Florida Nader voters — around half a percent — had to vote for Gore to win the election.

This is what exit polling, which asked people to vote in a two-party race with the option of not voting as a third option, finds. In this scenario, she would still have lost Florida and Wisconsin but would have won Michigan. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin would also have been in a tie, 48 to 48 percent. Clinton would have had to win both states to get 270 Electoral votes. Even in the artificial world created by that exit poll, which erased Stein and Johnson from the race, Clinton appeared to be losing.

The Wall Street Journal stated at the time, “The third-party vote does not appear to have played a major role in Democrat Hillary Clinton’s defeat.”

The researchers also said that the “analysis” they had done of the third-party vote in states with a Republican lean “showed that Mrs. Clinton needed to win an important percentage of an independent, fickle, and often misunderstood voter group to change enough states in the election.”

A Trump victory with a huge margin would indeed be amazing, but a third-party candidate influencing a Kamala-Harris defeat in one or two battleground states would be the chef’s kiss.

Stay tuned as always!