User:Superb Owl/Sandbox/Third Party (U.S. Politics)
Cornel West[1][2] and Jill Stein[3] have both gotten significant support from Republians hoping their campaigns siphon votes away from Kamala Harris so that Donald Trump can become president.
Foreign interference in the 2024 United States elections
In response, some third-party candidates express ambivalence about which major party they prefer and their possible role as spoiler[4][5][better source needed] or deny the possibility.[6][better source needed]
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2024 Presidential campaign (added - we will see)
[edit]The 2024 campaign, like Stein's 2016 campaign, has been criticized as a possible spoiler campaign benefitting Donald Trump.[7][3][8]
In September, Alexandra Ocasio Cortez criticized Stein saying, "'All you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you're just showing up once every four years to do that, you're not serious,' AOC said. 'To me, it does not read as authentic. It reads as predatory.'"[9][10][11] Peter Rothpletz in The New Republic criticized Stein for the Green party's low membership numbers, for defending another minor party after its leaders were indicted as illegal Russian agents,[12] for not knowing how many members were in the House of Representatives, and for arguing in a 2016 interview that Hillary Clinton was a greater threat than Donald Trump.[10]
The 2024 campaign, like Stein's 2016 campaign, has described as a possible spoiler campaign benefitting Donald Trump.[3]
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Criticism and controversies
[edit]David Corn and David Masciotra criticized the views of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, such as the pursuit of nuclear weapons by Kim Jong Un and its defense of the Chinese government against accusations of abuses of human rights.[13][14] David Corn says its cofounder, Brian Becker, and the party's former two-time Vice-Presidential candidate Eugene Puryear both hosted shows or podcasts for Radio Sputnik, a Kremlin propaganda outlet.[14] Two of the other hosts of a recent forum for De la Cruz also had financial ties to Russia and pro-china tycoon Neville Singham.[14][15][16]
PSL has also been described as a 'fringe, anti-capitalist party' in Time.[17][additional citation(s) needed]
Democrats have been working to keep De la Cruz (and Cornel West) off of ballots,[18] while Republicans have been working to get them on the ballot,[18] hoping they will split votes from Harris that benefits Donald Trump.[citation needed]
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References
[edit]- ^ "Her name was on a filing agreeing to be a Cornel West elector. Her question: What's an elector?". AP News. 2024-08-17. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
- ^ Levy, Marc (2024-08-21). "Democrats get a third-party hopeful knocked off Pennsylvania ballot, as Cornel West tries to get on". AP News. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
- ^ a b c Siddiqui, Sabrina (September 21, 2024). "Republicans Boost Jill Stein as Potential Harris Spoiler". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Selk, Avi (2021-11-25). "Analysis | Green Party candidate says he might be part alien, doesn't care if he's a spoiler in Ohio election". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
- ^ Merica, Dan; Slodysko, Brian (2024-08-19). "Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot. The left-wing academic is OK with it". AP News. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
- ^ Means, Marianne (February 4, 2001). "Opinion: Goodbye, Ralph". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on May 26, 2002.
- ^ Blake, Aaron (2024-08-26). "Analysis | RFK Jr.'s exit pushes the 2024 spoiler effect to the left". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
- ^ Doherty, Erin (September 27, 2024). "How Jill Stein could derail Democrats again". Axios.
- ^ Barber, Rachel. "Jill Stein hits back after AOC says her bids for the White House are 'predatory'". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
- ^ a b Rothpletz, Peter (September 17, 2024). "Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
- ^ Guzman, Chad de (2024-09-04). "What to Know About AOC's Feud With Jill Stein and the Green Party". TIME. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
- ^ Impelli, Matthew (2024-09-12). "US activists convicted of conspiring to act as illegal Russian agents". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-09-27.
- ^ Masciotra, David (December 29, 2023). "Cornel West Is the Charlatan of the Year". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
- ^ a b c Corn, David. "As a presidential candidate, Cornel West aligns himself with far-left radicals". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ Bredderman, William (May 29, 2023). "U.S Tech Mogul Bankrolls Pro-Russia, Pro-China News Network". The Daily Beast.
Sitting on the People's Forum's board is Claudia De La Cruz, who pulls triple duty as BreakThrough's secretary and as a "co-coordinator/educator" for the Justice and Education Fund. An auditor's report filed in New York shows that more of Singham's money trickled down to BreakThrough from the Forum in the form of $80,575 in donated rent in 2021, the most recent year for which filings are available. But when The Daily Beast visited the People's Forum address, it found a bookstore hawking tomes by Prashad and titles from his Leftword imprint, as well as a coffee shop and an event space—but no evidence of a studio. What's more, none of BreakThrough's hosts appear among the staff listed in the outlet's filings. Rather, the underlying nonprofit's leadership consists of figures like De La Cruz who donate an hour a week to the organization, and who like De La Cruz are affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a small far-left sect that does not appear to receive substantial donations from Singham or from anybody else. The PSL does, however, appear as an allied group to the International People's Media Network on its webpage. Puryear and Becker, two of the BreakThrough anchors, are co-founders of the party.
- ^ Hvistendahl, Mara; Fahrenthold, David A.; Chutel, Lynsey; Jhaveri, Ishaan (2023-08-05). "A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-08-05. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- ^ Racker, Mini (2023-10-16). "Cornel West on Biden, Trump, and 'My Brother' RFK Jr". TIME. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
- ^ a b Amy, Jeff (2024-08-29). "Georgia puts Cornel West, Jill Stein and Claudia De la Cruz on the state's presidential ballots". AP News. Retrieved 2024-08-30.
Democrats legally challenged West, De la Cruz, Kennedy and Stein, seeking to block candidates who could siphon votes from Harris after Joe Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020...Georgia is one of several states where Democrats and allied groups have filed challenges to third-party and independent candidates. Republicans in Georgia intervened, seeking to keep all the candidates on the ballot.