2024 presidential election: 10 candidates running third-party campaigns

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Monday, April 01, 2024

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks during a rally of Bernie Sanders supporters outside the Wells Fargo Center on the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 26, 2016. | (Photo: Reuters/Dominick Reuter)

9. Jill Stein

Jill Stein, who was the Green Party’s presidential nominee in 2012 and 2016, took to X last November to announce that she was mounting a third White House bid. “The political system is broken. Over 60% of us now say the two-party establishment has failed us and and we need a party that serves the people. I’m running for President to offer a better choice for the people,” she wrote.

The political system is broken. Over 60% of us now say the two-party establishment has failed us and we need a party that serves the people.

I’m running for President to offer a better choice for the people. Join us!https://t.co/sjGXNNSnmK pic.twitter.com/QkrugPGadb
— Dr. Jill Stein???? (@DrJillStein) November 9, 2023

“Our democracy is on life support. Belief in our political system is at historic lows and the number who feel neither establishment party represents them is at a record high. We need real choices on the ballot because without freedom of choice in elections, there is no democracy,” Stein added. “When we stand together, we the people have the power - and we can use it in this election to start building an America and a world that works for all of us.”

Stein’s website characterizes her campaign as advancing “a pro-worker, anti-war, climate emergency agenda.” She is also calling for an “economic Bill of Rights, including the right to a living-wage job, housing, food, healthcare, education and more, so that all of us are guaranteed the basic security for a good life.”

Additional aspects of her platform include “a Green New Deal with massive investment in green jobs, industries, and technologies to revitalize the American economy, improve our quality of life, protect our planet and safeguard our children’s future” and “a new foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights to oppose violence, occupation, and apartheid.”

According to Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, which keeps track of election results over time, Stein won 0.36% of the popular vote in her 2012 White House run and 1.07% of the popular vote in her 2016 bid. In 2020, when Howie Hawkins was the Green Party nominee, the party received just 0.26% of the popular vote nationwide.

As of April 1, the RealClearPolitics average of polls including Stein as one of five candidates voters can choose from in the 2024 presidential election, based on surveys conducted from March 5-26, shows Stein capturing 2% of the vote. She remains far behind Trump (42%), Biden (39.6%) and Kennedy (10.3%) while polling slightly ahead of West (1.9%).