Three’s a crowd: Biden tries to avoid Hillary’s 2016 mistakes with assertive third-party strategy

Washington Examiner ^ | 4/10/2024 | Naomi Lim

[simpson96]

Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton, smarting from her surprise loss to then-reality star Donald Trump, started apportioning blame to 2016 Green Party nominee Jill Stein, contending she siphoned much-needed votes from her.

Now, with Stein poised to be on 2024 general election ballots, President Joe Biden appears to be heeding Clinton’s advice to take third-party and independent candidates seriously amid extremely close, margin-of-error polling between himself and Trump before this November.

The Green Party will be on the ballot in the key battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, with the potential of Georgia, though the party has only been able to mount write-in campaigns there in the past, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. The Green Party has not been on Nevada’s ballot since 2008, but it was on Pennsylvania’s ballot in 2012 and 2016 before organizing a write-in campaign in 2020.

But as the Green Party and Stein, who is tipped to become her party’s nominee after Cornel West decided last fall to continue his 2024 presidential run as an independent, keep up their campaign for broader ballot access, the Democratic National Committee has stood up a special team, led by top strategists Ramsey Reid, Mary Beth Cahill, and Lis Smith, to counteract their efforts.

“We find it both offensive and pathetic that the Democrats are choosing to use their vast resources, acquired in large part through their donors in the fossil fuel industry and the war machine, to impede democracy rather than support it,” Stein campaign manager Jason Call told the Washington Examiner. “If Democrats were truly committed to voters and progressive policies, they would be working to solve the real problems Americans face.”

“Voters deserve better, and we intend to give them that choice,” Call said. “Votes are not owned; they are earned.”

[simpson96]

“Votes are not owned; they are earned.”

She's talking to liberal elites. She may as well tell it to a brick wall.

[packagingguy]

“That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s ALSO a Russian asset,” Clinton told David Plouffe, former President Barack Obama‘s 2008 campaign manager, in 2019 of Stein’s 2012 and 2016 bids. “Yes, she’s a Russian asset. I mean, totally. They know they can’t win without a third-party candidate.”

This really is from the article.

Trump is a Russian asset.

Jill Stein is a Russian asset.

RFK Jr. is probably a Russian asset.

The only way we can save “democracy” is to keep these people off the ballot.

[nwrep]

All power to Jill Stein. She should really come out and hammer Trump on his support for Israel to be more effective.

[stanne]

Here’s where hillary made a mistake in 2016-

She underestimated Trump

There’s no way the democrats will avoid this mistake again.

[Liz]

Another similarity........

Loser Hillary was burdened with the ghastly specter of Bill Clinton hanging over her.

Joeblow’s got specters of his own:
<><>there’s the unholy vision of grasping Jill wearing the upholstery
<><>there’s cokehead Hunter whoring around cheating on his taxes
<><>there’s the greedy Biden Crime Family swilling at the public trough.