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.

  • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    She solely exists so Trump supporters can try to steal votes from Kamala by pretending to be progressive. The US uses an undemocratic FPTP voting system, which means that there can only be two viable candidates at any given time.

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      2 months ago

      She certainly captures more liberals and lefties and Trump supporters. That’s why Dems hate her so much