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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJill Stein cost Hillary dearly in 2016. Democrats are still writing off her successor.
The Green Party is set to nominate Howie Hawkins, a Democratic socialist making an explicit play for disaffected Bernie voters.
By ALEX THOMPSON and HOLLY OTTERBEIN
06/20/2020 07:00 AM EDT
ill Stein still haunts Hillary Clintons campaign team.
Oh woof. I cant bear to talk about that, said former communications director Jennifer Palmieri.
For good reason: Had voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin cast their ballots for Clinton rather than the Green Partys Stein, Clinton would be president.
Now, with the Green Party set to elevate its presumptive nominee Howie Hawkins, a longtime labor activist keen on attracting disillusioned Bernie Sanders voters and calling for a #DemExit many Democrats are unfazed. Not to worry, they say: Trump will be a sufficiently mobilizing force for Democrats this time around.
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)Good to count the swing states.
More 'theys' are active in critical Kentucky
BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)Sigh
dalton99a
(81,475 posts)They are as predictable as cicadas
blm
(113,052 posts)Targetting GOP not part of Putins plan?
George II
(67,782 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)GemDigger
(4,305 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Kind pitiful that Politico writers can't grab a headline with Stein's name alone .
They'd get nowhere without Hillary!
🥂
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Hoping we don't do that again and get trump for 4 more years and two or three more Supreme Court nominations.
George II
(67,782 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Damn, it's really stretching the limit with whomever wrote this.
Politico is the new Enquirer.. 😄
They must be so proud 🤪
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Are they volunteers, or does someone actually PAY them to come up with this crap?
Budi
(15,325 posts)Shouldn't Hawkins be able to run on his own merit without invoking the division from 2016?
Seems Stein & Hillary was placed in the headline to draw attentiin to Hawkins.
I find that rather poor journalism & would have been more interested in reading a header introducing me to Hawkins had they omitted the headline grabbing names of Stein & Clinton, & extoled the virtues of Hawkins himself.
But it is classic Politico, so ..meh 🙄
The division continues with amateur journalism like this.
All I'm sayin.
It's not 2016 anymore.
Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)going in the trash...don't give a damn about The Green Party...I think Democrats now realize that voting Green is voting Republican in the real world. And the left- many who dislike and attack the Democratic Party- are going to find themselves with little power if they are not careful. Democrats are going to have to depend on moderates for winning elections. After all, it was moderates who took back the house and helped us win important elections. these last three years. All I see on the left is some going after safe Democratic seats in safe Democratic areas ...desperate for a win I think.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The Stein supporters I knew were never going to vote for HRC. They'd a more likely voted for Trump. Most would have just written in someone like Bernie or something.
DenverJared
(457 posts)In any event, some people just need to get over the sound defeat of their messiah in fair primary elections and line up to support Joe Biden.
Even in their privileged cocoon, they should realize that their tantrum created a Nazi resurrection, put children in cages, separated infants from their parents, cops are killing minorities like it is hunting season, wealthy are getting tax cuts while leaving poor people behind, the environment is fucked up and rule of law and democratic institutions are being wrecked.
Hillary saw it coming. Kudos to her.
betsuni
(25,483 posts)Uh oh. The Kremlin isn't being very generous this time around.
What a ridiculous headline, terrible.