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'''Jill Ellen Stein''' (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician and activist who was the ]'s nominee for ] in the ], ], and ] elections. She was the ]'s candidate for ] in ] and ].
{{Jill Stein series}}


As a practicing physician, Stein advocated for improving ] standards for ]. She ran her first political campaign as the ] candidate for governor of Massachusetts in ], losing to ] ]. She ran for the same position in ], losing to the then-incumbent Massachusetts governor, ] ].
'''Jill Ellen Stein''' (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician, activist, politician, and ]. She is the ]'s ] for President of the United States in the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/06/01/green-party-candidate-jill-stein-says-bernie-sanders-should-make-a-3rd-party-run/|title=Green Party candidate Jill Stein says Bernie Sanders should make a 3rd party run|date=June 1, 2016|publisher=}}</ref><ref name="Martin">{{Cite episode |last=Martin |first=Michel |authorlink=Michel Martin |title=Green Party's Jill Stein Wants To Be 'Plan B' For Bernie Sanders Supporters |url=http://www.npr.org/2016/07/24/487252170/green-partys-jill-stein-wants-to-be-plan-b-for-bernie-sanders-supporters |series=All Things Considered |serieslink=All Things Considered |network=] |airdate=July 24, 2016 |transcript=Jill Stein interview |transcripturl=http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=487252170 |access-date=July 26, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/jill-stein-the-green-partys-presumptive-presidential-nominee-makes-inroads-1467413879|title=Jill Stein, the Green Party’s Presumptive Presidential Nominee, Makes Inroads|last=Tau|first=ron|date=2016-07-01|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|issn=0099-9660|access-date=2016-07-25}}</ref> Stein was also the Green Party's presidential nominee in ].<ref name="wins">{{cite news | url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-14/green-party-jill-stein/56226288/1 | title=Mass. doctor Jill Stein wins Green Party's presidential nod | agency=Associated Press | work=] | date=July 14, 2012 | accessdate=July 15, 2012}}</ref><ref name="uselectionatlas.org">, ''Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections'' accessed November 19, 2012</ref> She ran for ] in ] and ].<ref>{{cite news | last=O’Sullivan |first=Jim |url=http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20100107stein_to_jump_into_gov_race_with_green-rainbow_bid/srvc=home&position=recent | title=Stein to jump into gov race with Green-Rainbow bid | publisher=Boston Globe | date=January 7, 2010 | accessdate=July 18, 2012}}</ref><ref> Boston Globe, February 4, 2010

</ref><ref>{{cite news | title = Wayland's Jill Stein to launch campaign for governor | newspaper = ''MetroWest Daily News'' | location = Boston | date = February 4, 2010 | url = http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x979448507/Waylands-Jill-Stein-to-launch-campaign-for-governor| accessdate = September 6, 2012}}</ref>
Stein first ran for ] in ], selecting ] as her running mate. They lost to the Democratic ticket of incumbent President ] and incumbent Vice President ]. She ran for the second time for president in ] with running mate ] against Democratic candidate ] and Republican candidate ], the latter of whom won the election. In 2017, Stein's presidential campaign was investigated by the ] for possible collusion with the Russian government but was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing.

She ran a third time in the ] against former President Trump and Democratic candidate Vice President ] on a campaign focused on an anti-war stance, ], ], an ] "real ]", and strong ]. Her vice presidential running mate was ]. Stein is among the list of ] and also one of the few who received more than a million votes in the general election, behind ], ], and ].


==Early life and education== ==Early life and education==
{{Jill Stein series}}
Jill Stein was born in Chicago, the daughter of Gladys (née Wool) and Joseph Stein, and was raised in ]. She is ], and her family attended Chicago's ], a ] synagogue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.forward.com/forward-thinking/159304/going-green/ |title=Going Green |publisher= '']'' |accessdate=August 21, 2012}}</ref> Her parents were both from Russian Jewish families and Stein was raised in a Reform Jewish household, but now considers herself ].<ref name="Who is Jill Stein Anyway?">{{cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/10/01/interview-with-green-party-candidate-jill-stein-part-one/#3125b9aa5dec|title=Who Is Jill Stein Anyway ? Green Party Candidate Discusses Her Background|first=Peter J|last=Reilly|publisher=}}</ref> Stein is married to Richard Rohrer, who is also a physician. They live in ], and have two adult sons.<ref name="boston.com"/><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=] |date=October 2, 2002 |title=Governor Candidates Bicker in Debate |first=David S. |last=Hirsch |accessdate=July 14, 2012 |url=http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2002/10/2/governor-candidates-bicker-in-debate-republican/?print=1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |newspaper=] |accessdate=July 14, 2012 |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/us/politics/jill-stein-green-party-candidate-and-the-chances-of-making-a-difference.html?pagewanted=all |date=July 12, 2012 |first=Susan |last=Saulny |title=Party Strains to Be Heard Now That Its Voice Isn’t Nader’s |page=A10}}</ref>
Stein was born in ], Illinois, and raised in nearby ]. Stein was raised in a ] household, attending Chicago's ].<ref name="toi160716">{{cite web |last1=Sales |first1=Ben |title=6 things to know about Jill Stein, Israel-bashing last Jewish candidate standing |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/6-things-to-know-about-jill-stein-the-last-jewish-presidential-candidate-standing/ |website=Times of Israel |access-date=28 September 2024 |date=16 July 2016}}</ref>


In 1973, Stein graduated '']'' from ], where she studied psychology, sociology, and anthropology. She then attended ] and graduated in 1979. Stein practiced medicine in the Boston area for 25 years. She also served as an instructor in ] at Harvard Medical School.<ref name="toi160716" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Jill Stein {{!}} Education, Medical Career, Activism, Election Results, Green New Deal, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jill-Stein |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=1 October 2024 |language=en |date=20 September 2024}}</ref>
In 1973, Stein graduated ''magna cum laude'' from ], where she studied psychology, sociology, and anthropology. She then attended ] and graduated in 1979. After graduating from Harvard Medical School, Stein practiced internal medicine for 25 years<ref name="boston.com"/> at ], ] Health Center, and ], and also served as an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. She retired from practicing and teaching medicine in 2005 and 2006, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wne.edu/communicator/news/2003/0207womeninpolitics.html|title=Dr. Stein is a Harvard-educated physician who ran for Governor as a Green Party candidate in the 2002 Massachusetts election. Most recently, she was an instructor at Harvard Medical School and practiced medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gfrpartners.com/09PublicHealth&Medicine.html|title=Jill Stein, M.D. a former staff physician at Harvard Community Health Plan and Simmons College Health Center and co-author of In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, concluded the morning presentations|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://action.psr.org/site/DocServer/spring2006.pdf?docID=5303|title=Jill Stein MD Internist, public health advocate and founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities (MCHC), instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School 1982–2005, and staff internist at Simmons College Health Center for 15 years.|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/08/08/green-partys-stein-on-presidential-campaign-im-in-this-for-the-long-haul/|title=Before she headed out to campaign, the Harvard-educated physician, instructor of internal medicine, and environmental health advocate sat down with WBZ-TV’s Political Editor Jon Keller|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blog/going_green/2013/04/green-party-leader-jill-stein-charlotte.html|title=Stein, a physician and internal medicine instructor, graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, and from Harvard Medical School in 1979.|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20121104/NEWS/311049955|title=Stein, a Lexington native who graduated from Harvard Medical School where she later became an instructor said that she quit medicine so she could "cure" politics, "The mother of all illnesses."|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://pielc.org/2014-pielc-to-feature-green-party-presidential-candidate-dr-jill-stein/|title=Jill was trained as a clinical doctor and served for decades as an instructor in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School.|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lfda.org/candidate/jill-stein|title=CitizensCountNH- Jill Stein|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://presidential-candidates.insidegov.com/l/44/Jill-Stein|title=InsideGov- Jill Stein|accessdate=June 20, 2016}}</ref>


==Early activism and political career==
==Career==
]As a physician, Stein became increasingly concerned about the connection between people's health and the quality of their local environment. She subsequently turned to activism. In 1998, she began protesting the "Filthy Five" coal plants in ].<ref name="Jill NBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/meet-jill-stein-green-party-candidate-president-n541536|title=Meet Jill Stein, the Green Party Candidate for President|website=]|access-date=May 31, 2016|date=March 26, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=November 30, 2015 |title=Harvard Grad Jill Stein Faces Uphill Battle for Presidency |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/11/30/jill-stein-president-feature/ |access-date=May 31, 2016 |website=Harvard Crimson}}</ref>
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As a medical doctor, Stein became increasingly concerned about the connection between people's health and the quality of their local environment, and decided to turn to activism in 1998, when she began protesting the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts.<ref name="Jill NBC">{{cite web|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/meet-jill-stein-green-party-candidate-president-n541536|title=Meet Jill Stein, the Green Party Candidate for President|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/11/30/jill-stein-president-feature/|title=Harvard Grad Jill Stein Faces Uphill Battle for Presidency|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> Stein's testimony on the effects of mercury and dioxin contamination from the burning of waste helped preserve the Massachusetts moratorium on new trash incinerator construction in the state, and she later testified in the effort to get the Massachusetts fish advisories updated to better protect women and children from mercury contamination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/03/11378/dr-jill-stein-green-party-candidate-president|title=Dr. Jill Stein: Green Party Candidate for President|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> Since 1998, she has served on the board of the Greater Boston chapter of ].<ref name="boston.com">{{cite web|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/governor/jill_stein/|title=Jill Stein (G-R) Candidate for Governor|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> Under Stein, the chapter partnered with ]'s Superfund Research Program as part of BUSRP’s Community Outreach Core and became a key member of the Environmental Health Nursing Education Collaborative.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/sph/research/research-landing-page/superfund-research-program-at-boston-university/research-cores/community-engagement-core/articles-factsheets-and-other-tools-for-communities/environmental-drivers-of-chronic-disease/|title=Environmental Drivers of Chronic Disease Video Lectures- Jill Stein, MD|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> In 2003, Stein co-founded and served as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, a nonprofit organization that addressed a variety of issues important to the health and well-being of Massachusetts communities, including health care, local green economies, and grassroots democracy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://billmoyers.com/guest/jill-stein/|title=Jill Stein- Physician and Activist|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref name="open media Boston"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wbai.org/articles.php?article=2886|title=You Heard the Democratic Presidential Candidates, Now Hear What A Real Progressive, Dr. Jill Stein, Has to Say|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> Stein also founded and served as co-chair of a recycling committee in her hometown of ], the Lexington Solid Waste Action Team. The committee was approved by Lexington's Board of Selectmen and later featured in the textbook ''Approaches to Sustainable Development: The Public University in the Regional Economy''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SR0_GWwkQV4C&pg=PA203&dq=Clean+Water+Action+jill+stein&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjn7NbwvYPNAhXDpYMKHT6eDn4Q6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=Clean%20Water%20Action%20jill%20stein&f=false|title=Approaches to Sustainable Development: The Public University in the Regional Economy|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref name="kkfi">{{cite web|url=http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/green-party-nominee-jill-stein/|title=Green Party Nominee Jill Stein|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> In 2008, Stein helped formulate a successful "Secure Green Future" ballot initiative that called upon legislators to accelerate efforts to move the Massachusetts economy to renewable energy and make development of green jobs a priority.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.thephoenix.com/blogs/phlog/archive/2008/11/06/steps-towards-a-greener-future.aspx|title=Steps Towards a Greener Future|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> Other organizations Stein has worked with include ], Toxic Action Center, Global Climate Convergence, ], and ].<ref name="kkfi"/><ref name="Jill Stein Biography 2016"/><ref name="Scheer"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popularresistance.org/jill-stein-on-global-climate-convergence-green-new-deal/|title=Jill Stein On Global Climate Convergence & Green New Deal|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dcmediagroup.us/2015/08/04/push-healthcare-justice-medicare-turns-50/|title=Push for Healthcare Justice as Medicare Turns 50|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://theobamacrat.com/2016/05/11/dr-jill-stein-my-prescription-for-americas-ill-healthcare-system/|title=Dr. Jill Stein: My Prescription For Americas "ILL" Healthcare System|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bexargreens.org/2012/06/28/romneycare-and-obamacare-are-class-warfare-and-failures/|title=Romneycare and Obamacare are class warfare and failures|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> She received Clean Water Action's "Not in Anyone's Backyard Award" in 1998 and its "Children's Health Hero Award" in 2000, Toxic Action Center's "Citizen Award" in 1999, and ]'s "Friend of the Earth Award" in 2004.<ref name="Jill Stein Biography 2016">{{cite web|url=http://2016election.procon.org/view.background-resource.php?resourceID=006498|title=Jill Stein Biography|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Jill Stein at Sonoma State University">{{cite web|url=http://www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/categories-rtn-sonoma-col-arg1-columns-arg2-Politics%20and%20Social%20Issues-article-708.html|title=Jill Stein for President at Sonoma State University|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://dgl.salemstate.edu/earthday/archives/History_FriendoftheEarthAwards.pdf|title=Earth Days at Salem State College - Past Friend of the Earth Award Recipients|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref>


The Clean Election Law provided public funding for candidates not receiving large private donations, and was eventually repealed in 2003 by the Democratic party controlled state legislature.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-08 |title=Jill Stein {{!}} Education, Medical Career, Activism, Election Results, Green New Deal, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jill-Stein |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> Stein has said that she left the Democratic Party and joined the Green Party when "the Democratic Party killed campaign finance reform in my state".<ref name="Jill NBC" />
As a medical doctor and researcher, Stein has published various materials and teaching plans, and has testified before legislative panels as well as local and state governmental bodies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theportlandalliance.org/jillstein/|title=The portland Alliance|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> She coauthored two reports by the Greater Boston ], ''In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development'' (2000), and ''Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging'' (2009).<ref name="HealthyAging">{{cite web|url=http://www.agehealthy.org/|author="Jill Stein etal."|title=Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging|accessdate=October 26, 2012}}</ref><ref name="HarmsWay">{{cite web|url=http://www.psr.org/chapters/boston/resources/in-harms-way.html|author=Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility|title=In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development|accessdate=24 Aug 2016}}</ref> Stein's official biography states that reports have been widely cited and translated into four languages.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sandiego.edu/law/school/news/detail.php?_focus=42692|title=Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein to Speak at USD|date=September 20, 2012}}</ref><ref>, ] (accessed August 25, 2016).</ref> The report was republished in the peer-reviewed '']'' in 2002.<ref name=JDBP>Jill Stein, Ted Schettler, David Wallinga, Maria Valenti, , '']'', Vol. 23 (February 2002), pp. S13-S22.</ref> Stein also coauthored articles about health in publications such as '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jill-stein-and-ted-schettler/reducing-the-risk-of-alzh_b_179256.html|title=Reducing The Risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> In 2009, Stein developed a three-part lecture series, "Healthy People, Healthy Planet," supported by the ] ], for a course at the ] Nursing School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/sph/files/2015/03/module_1_stein_dec2009.pdf|title=Healthy People, Healthy Planet|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psr.org/chapters/boston/health-and-environment/healthy-people-healthy-planet-lecture-series.html?|title=Healthy People, Healthy Planet 3-part lecture taped for University of Delaware Nursing School Course|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> She also lectured and gave presentations at other institutions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.healthandenvironment.org/initiatives/healthy_aging/briefings|title=Healthy Aging and the Environment= Briefings, Conferences, Presentations, Meetings 2008-2013|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref>


In a 2024 interview with '']'', Stein said the Green Party was an alternative to the "rigid two-party system both parties are widely regarded as sponsored by and serving the economic elites, and share their core interests. They're both parties of war and of Wall Street. They may differ on social issues, but on core policies they're very much the same".<ref name="haaretz180424">{{cite web |last1=Slyomovics |first1=Nettanel |title='I Was Taught Genocide Should Never Happen Again': Jill Stein vs. the State of Israel |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/i-was-taught-genocide-should-never-happen-again-jill-stein-vs-the-state-of-israel/0000018e-f28f-dea6-ab9e-f28f095d0000 |website=Haaretz |access-date=1 October 2024 |date=18 April 2024}}</ref>
Stein is an advocate for campaign finance reform. In 1998, she helped campaign for the Clean Elections Law in Massachusetts.<ref name="Scheer">{{cite web|url=http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/audio_robert_scheer_speaks_with_jill_stein_about_the_20160208|title=AUDIO: Robert Scheer Speaks With Jill Stein About the Green Party and the 2016 Election|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> The law was later repealed by a Democratic-majority legislature,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/21/us/massachusetts-legislature-repeals-clean-elections-law.html|title=Massachusetts Legislature Repeals Clean Elections Law|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caclean.org/problem/sfchron_2003-08-05.php|title=Massachusetts Organizers Wonder What Went Wrong With Clean Elections Experiment|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> leading Stein to leave the Democratic party and join the Green Party.<ref name="Jill NBC"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/6240:the-party-of-our-discontent-an-interview-with-green-party-candidate-jill-stein|title=The Party of Our Discontent? An Interview With Green Party Candidate Jill Stein|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> She was one of several activists involved with the Clean Elections Law to file a complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County in 2002 against ], the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, over the state's failure to successfully implement the law.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Masscomplaint.pdf|title=COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT FOR SUFFOLK COUNTY|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> Stein has also served on the board of MassVoters for Fair Elections<ref name="boston.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bluemassgroup.com/2010/06/stein-campaign-is-a-clarion-call-for-clean-elections/|title=Stein's campaign is a clarion call for clean elections|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref> and has campaigned for implementing ] voting in Massachusetts.<ref name="open media Boston">{{cite web|url=http://openmediaboston.org/content/jill-stein-espouses-instant-runoff-voting-through-ma-voter-choice-campaign-national-popular|title=Jill Stein Espouses Instant Runoff Voting Through MA Voter Choice Campaign; National Popular Voting Also On The Table|accessdate=May 31, 2016}}</ref>


On January 20, Stein is expected to speak at a rally convened by ], ], and ] alongside other keynote speakers such as fellow 2024 presidential candidate ] and actress ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=We Fight Back – Jan 20, 2025 |url=https://peoplesforum.org/events/we-fight-back-jan-20-2025/ |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=The People's Forum |language=en-US}}</ref>
Alongside her political career, Stein also recorded musical albums with collaborator Ken Selcer in the ] band Somebody's Sister.<ref name="Somebody's Sister">{{cite web|title=Somebody's Sister (Jill Stein and Ken Selcer)|url=http://ourstage.com/profile/somebodyssisterjillsteinandkenselcer|website=Ourstage|accessdate=30 June 2016|ref=Somebody's Sister}}</ref> She plays the ] and ] drums<ref>{{cite web|title=People Got The Power - Jill Stein and Kenny Selcer with Dave Scandurra|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40MqkqXD7I|website=Youtube|accessdate=30 July 2016}}</ref> and the guitar.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jill Stein Green Party Presidential Candidate Singing and Playing Guitar|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTz8j0VirLE|website=Youtube|accessdate=30 July 2016}}</ref> During the 1990s and 2000s, the duo released four studio albums: ''Flashpoint'', ''Somebody's Sister'', ''Green Sky'', and ''Circuits To The Sun.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://somebodyssister-steinselcer.bandcamp.com/album/circuits-to-the-sun-somebodys-sister |title=Circuits to the Sun - Somebody's Sister |first1=Jill |last1=Stein |first2=Ken |last2=Selcer |publisher=]}}</ref>'' Many of the songs focus on issues Stein emphasizes in her political career: peace, justice, and climate action.<ref name="KenSelcerMusic">{{cite web|last1=Selcer|first1=Ken|title=Recorded Music|url=http://www.kennyselcer.com/recorded-music.html|website=Kenny Selcer|accessdate=30 June 2016}}</ref> The pair also often performed at live events, such as the 2008 Green-Rainbow Convention in ], ].<ref name="KenSelcerOldWebsite">{{cite web|last1=Selcer|first1=Ken|title=Songs by Jill Stein|url=http://www.kenselcer.com/jillstein.html|website=Ken Selcer|publisher=Ken Selcer|accessdate=30 June 2016}}</ref> The band was a semifinalist in '']'''s best unsigned bands contest in 1996 and 1998.<ref name="Jill Stein Biography 2016"/>


== Political campaigns ==
==Electoral campaign history==
=== 2012 Presidential campaign ===
==== Primary ====
{{main|Jill Stein 2012 presidential campaign}}
], September 27, 2011]]
Stein launched her campaign in October 2011.


In December 2011, Ben Manski, a Wisconsin Green Party leader, was announced as Stein's campaign manager.<ref name="BAN1201">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/12/01/ben-manski-will-be-campaign-chair-for-jill-stein-presidential-run/|title=Ben Manski Will be Campaign Manager for Jill Stein Presidential Run|last=Winger|first=Richard|magazine=Ballot Access News|access-date=December 3, 2011}}</ref> Her major primary opponents were actress ] and activist Kent Mesplay.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/the-3-green-party-candidates-and-their-disappointing-platforms/257436/|title=The 3 Green Party Candidates and Their Disappointing Platforms|last=Friedersdorf|first=Conor|website=]|language=en-US|access-date=July 28, 2016|date=May 21, 2012}}</ref> Stein proposed the ], a government spending plan intended to put 25 million people to work.<ref name=":13" /> Mesplay called that unrealistic, saying, "This will take time to implement, and lacks legislative support."<ref name=":13" /> Stein became the presumptive Green Party nominee after winning two-thirds of ]'s delegates in June 2012.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120606jill_stein_says_she_has_delegates_for_green_party_nod_for_president/|title=Jill Stein says she has delegates for Green Party nod for president| work=] | publisher=Boston.com| access-date= June 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/06/06/mitt-romney-won-the-only-massachusetts-resident-the-presidential-ballot/0yfXioXs4lKJIFy2YumpoJ/story.html|title=Mitt Romney won't be the only Massachusetts resident on the presidential ballot|work=The Boston Globe |access-date=June 26, 2012}}</ref> On July 1, 2012, the Stein campaign reported it had received enough contributions to qualify for primary season federal ]. This made Stein the first Green Party presidential candidate ever to have qualified for federal matching funds.<ref>{{cite news |last= Stapleton |first=Christine |date=July 12, 2012 |title=Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein qualifies for matching funds |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2012/07/12/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill/7709247007/ |work=] |access-date=January 31, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Turner |first=Maureen |date=July 12, 2012 |title=Stein Qualifies for Public Campaign Funds |url=https://valleyadvocate.com/2012/07/12/stein-qualifies-for-public-campaign-funds/ |work=] |access-date=January 31, 2024}}</ref> On July 11, Stein selected ], an anti-poverty activist, as her ] running mate.<ref>Caldwell, Leigh Ann (July 11, 2012) , ]. Retrieved July 11, 2012.</ref><ref>Steinmetz, Katy (July 11, 2012) , ''] Swampland'' (election blog). Retrieved July 11, 2012.</ref> On July 14, she officially received the Green Party's nomination at its ] in ].<ref name="wins">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-14/green-party-jill-stein/56226288/1|title=Mass. doctor Jill Stein wins Green Party's presidential nod|date=July 14, 2012 |work=] |agency=Associated Press|access-date=July 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-green-convention-close-20120714,0,2011815.story| title=Green Party nominates Jill Stein for president at Baltimore convention | work=] | date=July 14, 2012 | access-date=July 15, 2012 | last=Kilar | first=Steve | archive-date=June 7, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607042553/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-green-convention-close-20120714,0,2011815.story | url-status=dead }}</ref>
===State and local campaigns===


==== General ====
====Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, 2002====
On August 1, Stein, Honkala and three others were arrested during a ] at a ] bank to protest housing foreclosures on behalf of several city residents struggling to keep their homes.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120801green_party_nominee_jill_stein_arrested_in_philly_bank_sit-in/srvc=home&position=recent | title=Green Party nominee Jill Stein arrested in Philly bank sit-in | agency=Associated Press | work=Boston Herald | date=August 1, 2012 | access-date=August 1, 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806021801/http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120801green_party_nominee_jill_stein_arrested_in_philly_bank_sit-in/srvc%3Dhome%26position%3Drecent | archive-date=August 6, 2012 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> On October 16, Stein and Honkala were arrested after they tried to enter the site of the presidential debate at ] while protesting the exclusion of smaller political parties, such as the Green Party, from the debates.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cirilli |first1=Kevin |title=Green Party ticket arrested at debate |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2012/10/green-party-ticket-arrested-at-debate-site-082490 |work=POLITICO |language=en}}</ref> Stein likened her arrest to the persecution of dissident ] in Russia.<ref>{{Cite tweet|user=DrJillStein|number=258990979133091841|title=#Putin persecutes #Left opposition leader #Udaltsov. #U.S. gov arrests #Green prez candidates. Is #Russia approaching U.S. or vice-versa?|access-date=November 9, 2023|date=October 18, 2012}}</ref> On October 31, Stein was arrested in Texas for criminal trespass, after trying to deliver food and supplies to environmental activists of ] camped out in trees protesting the construction of the ] pipeline.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/10/31/green-party-presidential-hopeful-arrested-in-pipeline-protest/|title=Green Party presidential hopeful arrested in pipeline protest|author=James B. Kelleher|work=Chicago Tribune|date=October 31, 2012|access-date=November 1, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/green-party-candidate-jill-stein-arrested/2012/10/31/0f309970-2373-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story.html|title=Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein charged with trespassing in Keystone XL protest|first=Steven|last=Mufson|newspaper=] |date=October 31, 2012|access-date=November 1, 2012}}</ref>
Stein was the ] candidate for ] and finished third in a field of five candidates, with 76,530 votes (3.5%).<ref>, ''CNN.com''. Retrieved October 14, 2011.</ref> After her debate performances received good reviews, supporters of the Democratic nominee purchased the rights to jillstein.org.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gitell|first=Seth|title=Jill Stein won the debate|url=http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/daily/documents/02516391.htm|accessdate=6 April 2012|newspaper=Boston Phoenix|date=October 10, 2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=McNamara|first=Eileen|title=Clock ticking for O'Brien|url=http://archive.fairvote.org/op_eds/globe102702.htm|accessdate=6 April 2012|newspaper=Boston Globe|date=October 27, 2002}}</ref>


The ] hosted a third-party debate with Stein and three other candidates on October 19, followed by a debate between Stein and ] held on November 5.<ref name="debate2012">{{cite news|last1=Calderone|first1=Michael|title=Third-Party Debate To Be Broadcast By Al Jazeera English, RT America, But Not Major Cable News Networks|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/third-party-debate-al-jazeera-english_n_1988014.html|newspaper=Huffington Post|access-date=August 31, 2016|date=October 19, 2012}}</ref><ref name="feef">{{cite web|title=Open Debates|url=http://action.freeandequal.org/Open-Debates/|website=Free and Equal|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=September 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914164008/http://action.freeandequal.org/Open-Debates/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
====Massachusetts House of Representatives candidate, 2004====


=== 2016 Presidential campaign ===
Following her third-place results in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Stein ran for state representative in 2004 for the 9th Middlesex District, which included portions of Waltham and Lexington.<ref> Elections Division, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved February 8, 2010
==== Primary ====
</ref> She received 3,911 votes (21.3%) in a three-way race, losing to the incumbent Thomas Stanley, who received 59.6%.<ref> Elections Division, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, retrieved November 3, 2006.</ref>
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], '']'' writer and host of the ] ''Start Making Sense'' in 2016]]
On February 6, 2015, Stein announced the formation of an ] in preparation for a potential campaign for the Green Party's presidential nomination in ].<ref name="considers">Pindell, James (February 6, 2015) , '']''. Retrieved February 6, 2015</ref> On June 22, she formally announced her candidacy in a live interview with ] on '']''<ref name="Exclusive">, ]. June 22, 2015, Retrieved June 23, 2015.</ref> After former Ohio state senator ] reportedly declined to be her running mate,<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2016 |title=Nina Turner turns down offer to be the Green Party's candidate for vice president |url=http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/08/nina_turner_turns_down_offer_t.html|first= Henry J. |last=Gomez|access-date=August 2, 2016 |website=Cleveland.com}}</ref> Stein chose human rights activist ] on August 1, 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://time.com/4434544/jill-stein-ajamu-baraka-vice-president-green-party/|title=Green Party's Jill Stein Picks Ajamu Baraka as Running Mate|last=Iyengar|first=Rishi|magazine=Time|date=August 2, 2016 |access-date=August 2, 2016}}</ref>


Stein stated during the 2016 campaign that the Democratic and Republican parties are "two corporate parties" that have converged into one.<ref name="reddit">{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ixbr5/i_am_jill_stein_green_party_candidate_for/d31zimt?context=3|title=I am Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, AMA! • /r/IAmA|website=reddit|date=May 11, 2016|access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref> Concerned by the rise of ] internationally and the rise of ] within the Democratic Party, she has said, "The answer to neofascism is stopping neoliberalism. Putting another Clinton in the White House will fan the flames of this right-wing extremism. We have known that for a long time, ever since Nazi Germany."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.734445|title=Watch //Jill Stein: To stop Trump's neofascism, we must stop Clinton's neoliberalism|newspaper=Haaretz|access-date=July 31, 2016|date=July 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvAJ2WrJm3Q |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/JvAJ2WrJm3Q |archive-date=December 13, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Left Forum 2016, Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power?|website=youtube|date=May 24, 2016 |publisher=Open University of the Left|access-date=August 17, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In August 2016, Stein released the first two pages of her 2015 tax return on her website.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jill2016.com/tax_returns|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814201131/http://www.jill2016.com/tax_returns|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 14, 2016|title=Tax Returns|access-date=August 11, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2016/08/11/jill-stein-releases-2015-federal-tax-return/#7104ae124d3a|title=Jill Stein Releases 2015 Federal Tax Return|last=Reilly|first=Peter J|website=]|access-date=August 12, 2016}}</ref>
====Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth candidate, 2006====
At the ] state ] on March 4, 2006, Stein was nominated for ]. In a two-way race with the three-term incumbent, Democrat ], she received 353,551 votes (18%).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/rov06.pdf |title= Massachusetts 2006 Election: Return of Votes |publisher= Massachusetts Secretary of State |date= |accessdate=September 9, 2012}}</ref>


Stein's financial disclosure, filed in March 2016, indicated that she maintained investments of as much as $8.5 million, including ] or ]s that included holdings in industries that she had previously criticized, such as energy, financial, pharmaceutical, tobacco, and defense contractors.<ref name=":23">{{Cite news |last=Ali |first=Yashar |date=October 26, 2016 |title=Jill Stein's Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-ideology-says-one-thingher-investment-portfolio-says-another/ |access-date=October 26, 2016 |newspaper=]}}</ref> In response to questions about her finances, Stein said in part: "Sadly, most of these broad investments are as compromised as the American economy—degraded as it is by the fossil fuel, defense and finance industries",<ref name=":23" /> and later characterized the article as a "smear attack" against her.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/green-partys-jill-stein-defends-big-oil-fund-investments-after-smear-attack-2016-10-28|title=Green Party's Jill Stein defends Big Oil fund investments after 'smear attack'|last=Schroeder|first=Robert|date=October 28, 2016|newspaper=MarketWatch|access-date=November 1, 2016}}</ref>
====Town of Lexington Town Meeting Representative, 2005 and 2008====
Lexington, Massachusetts has a ]-style government. Stein was elected to the Town Meeting Seat, Precinct 2 (Lexington, Massachusetts) in March 2005 local elections.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/35775/jill-stein |title=Jill E. Stein's Biography Candidate Details |publisher=votesmart.org |accessdate=July 16, 2012}}</ref> She finished first of 16 candidates running for seven seats, receiving 539 votes (20.6%).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cityofboston.gov/Images_Documents/110706Results_05secretaryofstate_tcm3-26360.pdf |title=STATE ELECTION – NOVEMBER 7, 2006, SECRETARY OF STATE, CITY OF BOSTON |publisher=cityofboston.gov |accessdate=July 16, 2012}}</ref> Stein was reelected in 2008, finishing second of 13 vying for eight seats.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gp.org/elections/candidates/details.php?record=3840 |title=Green Party of the United States &#124; Candidate Details |publisher=GP.org |date=March 3, 2008 |accessdate=July 16, 2012}}</ref>


On September 7, 2016, a ] judge issued a warrant for Stein's arrest for spray-painting a bulldozer during a protest of the ]. Stein was charged in ] with ] counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief. Her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, received the same charges.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/green-party-candidate-faces-charges-graffiti-protest-125826468.html|title=Green Party's Jill Stein charged with trespassing, mischief|date=September 7, 2016|publisher=Yahoo|access-date=September 8, 2016|archive-date=September 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921125823/https://www.yahoo.com/news/green-party-candidate-faces-charges-graffiti-protest-125826468.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> After the warrant was issued, Stein said that she would cooperate with the North Dakota authorities and arrange a court date. She defended her actions, saying that it would have been "inappropriate for me not to have done my small part" to support the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://abc7chicago.com/politics/green-party-presidential-candidate-to-speak-on-arrest-warrant/1504713/|title=Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to speak on arrest warrant|date=September 9, 2016|publisher=ABC|access-date=September 9, 2016}}</ref> In August 2017, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief and was placed on probation for six months.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/latest-jill-stein-pleads-guilty-pipeline-protest-49120270| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180129195047/http://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/latest-jill-stein-pleads-guilty-pipeline-protest-49120270| archive-date = January 29, 2018| title = The Latest: Jill Stein pleads guilty in pipeline protest| website = ]}}</ref>
====Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate, 2010====
{{main article|Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2010}}
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On February 8, 2010, Stein announced her ] on the steps of the Massachusetts State House in Boston.<ref>
Boston.com, February 8, 2010
</ref> Her running mate was ], a surgery clerk and ergonomics assessor from Holyoke.<ref> '']'', April 3, 2010
</ref> In May, Stein opened her campaign office in ] ], near the ].<ref> Boston Globe, May 16, 2010
</ref> In the November 2 general election, Stein finished last, receiving 32,816 votes out of 2,287,407 cast (1.4%).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/rov10.pdf|title=2010 Return of Votes Complete Statistics|date=December 1, 2010|accessdate=July 29, 2016|publisher=Massachusetts Elections Division}}</ref>


===Presidential campaigns=== ==== General ====
Stein said in an interview with '']'' that: "Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, won't ... Hillary has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his."<ref name="WGBH">{{cite web|url=http://news.wgbh.org/2016/07/27/politics-government/jill-stein-crashes-dnc-fox-news|title=Jill Stein Crashes The DNC With Fox News|date=July 27, 2016|publisher=WGBH News|last1=Reilly|first1=Adam}}</ref>


In the same interview, Stein said regarding Trump's business dealings and refusal to release his tax returns: "At least with Clinton, you know, there was some degree of transparency, but what's going on with Trump, you can't even get at, and what he said was that even to clarify 15 out of these 500 deals, these are just like the most frightening mafiosos around the world. He's like—he's a magnet for crime and extortion."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Thrush|first1=Glenn|title=Jill Stein: Trump may have 'memory problem'|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/jill-stein-trump-may-have-memory-problem-228346|website=Politico|date=September 19, 2016}}</ref>
====2012====
{{main article|Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2012}}
], September 27, 2011]]In August 2011, Stein indicated that she was considering running for ] with the ] in the ]. In a published questionnaire she said that a number of Green activists had asked her to run and called the ] "the President’s astounding attack on ], ] and ]—a betrayal of the public interest...". She said she would announce her intentions by the end of September 2011.<ref> GP.org</ref> Stein later said she would announce her decision on October 24.<ref name="IrregularTimes">
{{cite web|url= http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2011/10/10/which-presidential-candidate-stands-with-the-99-percent/ |title=Which Presidential Candidate Stands With The 99 Percent?|last=Clifford|first=J|date=October 10, 2011| publisher=Irregular Times|accessdate=October 14, 2011}}</ref>


Stein's highest polling average in four candidate polls was in late June 2016, when she polled at 4.8% nationally before ending at 1.9% nationally on the eve of ].<ref name=":16">, '']'', August 30, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2016.</ref> Her polling numbers gradually slipped throughout the campaign, consistent with historical trends for minor party candidates.<ref name="nyt2">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/upshot/can-gary-johnson-the-libertarian-nominee-swing-the-election.html|title=Can Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Nominee, Swing the Election?|last=Katz|first=Josh|date=August 4, 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|quote=Since 1968, all of the major third-party candidates have seen their polling averages decline closer to the election. ... Jill Stein, the Green Party's presumptive nominee ... is polling in the low-single digits and is a long shot to make the debates.|access-date=August 4, 2016}}</ref><ref name="wp1">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/05/a-new-poll-has-donald-trump-in-fourth-place-behind-hillary-clinton-gary-johnson-and-jill-stein-with-young-people/|title=A new poll has Trump in fourth — behind Gary Johnson AND Jill Stein — with young people|date=August 5, 2016|newspaper=] |quote=Third-party candidates tend to poll better before Election Day than they actually perform on Election Day. ... If history is any guide (and it has not always been one this election cycle), support for Johnson and Stein will ebb over the next three months.|author=Aaron Blake}}</ref>
On October 24, 2011, Stein launched her campaign at a press conference in Massachusetts, saying,
<blockquote>We are all realizing that we, the people, have to take charge because the political parties that are serving the top 1 percent are not going to solve the problems that the rest of us face, we need people in ] who will refuse to be bought by lobbyists and for whom change is not just a slogan.<ref name="Boston.com">
{{cite news| url = http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2011/10/jill-stein-launches-bid-for-green-party-presidential-nomination/OpdxKAo0I7PVj9NcPj8pqI/index.html| title= Jill Stein launches bid for Green Party presidential nomination| last=Levenson|first=Michael|date=October 24, 2011|work=]| accessdate=October 24, 2011}}
</ref></blockquote>


Stein played a significant role in several crucial ], drawing a vote total in three of them—], ] and ]—that exceeded the margin between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.<ref>Haberman, Maggie et al (September 22, 2020) ''New York Times.'' (Retrieved September 24, 2020.)</ref>
In December 2011, ], a Wisconsin Green Party leader, was announced as Stein's campaign manager.<ref name="BAN1201">{{cite web|url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/12/01/ben-manski-will-be-campaign-chair-for-jill-stein-presidential-run/|title=Ben Manski Will be Campaign Manager for Jill Stein Presidential Run|last=Winger|first=Richard|publisher=Ballot Access News|accessdate=December 3, 2011}}</ref> Her major primary opponents were Kent P. Mesplay and ].<ref name=":13">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/the-3-green-party-candidates-and-their-disappointing-platforms/257436/|title=The 3 Green Party Candidates and Their Disappointing Platforms|last=Friedersdorf|first=Conor|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-28}}</ref> Stein's signature issue during the primary was a "]", a government spending plan intended to put 25 million people to work.<ref name=":13" /> Mesplay called that unrealistic, saying, "This will take time to implement, and lacks legislative support."<ref name=":13" />


====Recount fundraising====
Stein became the presumptive Green Party nominee after winning two-thirds of California's delegates in June 2012.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120606jill_stein_says_she_has_delegates_for_green_party_nod_for_president/|title=Jill Stein says she has delegates for Green Party nod for president| work=] | publisher=Boston.com| accessdate= June 26, 2012}}</ref> In a statement following the California election, Stein said, "Voters will not be forced to choose between two servants of Wall Street in the upcoming election. Now we know there will be a third candidate on the ballot who is a genuine champion of working people."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/06/06/mitt-romney-won-the-only-massachusetts-resident-the-presidential-ballot/0yfXioXs4lKJIFy2YumpoJ/story.html|title=Mitt Romney won’t be the only Massachusetts resident on the presidential ballot|publisher=Boston.com|accessdate=June 26, 2012}}</ref> Stein was endorsed for president in 2012 by the ]-winning ] and ] ],<ref name="national peace leaders">{{cite web|url=http://www.jillstein.org/peace_leaders|title=National peace leaders urge support for Stein|date=June 26, 2012|publisher=jillstein.org|accessdate=September 17, 2012}}</ref> among others. Linguist ] said he would vote for her but urged those in swing states to vote for Obama.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/noam-chomsky-how-progressives-should-approach-election-2012|title=Noam Chomsky on How Progressives Should Approach Election 2012|last=Filipowicz|first=Matthew|date=2012-09-28|newspaper=AlterNet|access-date=2016-07-28}}</ref>
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In November 2016, a group of computer scientists and election lawyers including ] and ] (founder of the ]) expressed concerns about the integrity of the presidential election results. They wanted a full audit or recount of the presidential election votes in three states key to ]'s electoral college win—Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania—but needed a candidate on the presidential ballot to file the petition to state authorities. After unsuccessfully lobbying ] and her team, the group approached Stein and she agreed to spearhead the recount effort.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news|last1=Swaine|first1=John|last2=Chalabi|first2=Mona|title=US election recount: how it began – and what effect it could have|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/28/election-recount-jill-stein-hillary-clinton-donald-trump|access-date=December 2, 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|date=November 28, 2016}}</ref>
On July 1, 2012, the Stein campaign reported it had received enough contributions to qualify for primary season federal ], pending confirmation from the ]. If funded, Stein would be the second Green Party presidential candidate ever to have qualified, with ] being the first in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2012/06/30/jill-stein-campaign-appears-to-qualify-for-primary-season-matching-funds/|title=Jill Stein Campaign Appears to Qualify for Primary Season Matching Funds |last=Winger|first=Richard|publisher=Ballot Access News|accessdate=July 1, 2012}}</ref> On July 11, Stein selected ], an anti-poverty activist, as her running mate for the Green ] nomination.<ref>Caldwell, Leigh Ann (July 11, 2012) , ]. Retrieved July 11, 2012.</ref><ref>Steinmetz, Katy (July 11, 2012) , ''] Swampland'' (election blog). Retrieved July 11, 2012.</ref> On July 14, she officially received the Green Party's nomination at its ] in ].<ref name="wins"/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-green-convention-close-20120714,0,2011815.story | title=Green Party nominates Jill Stein for president at Baltimore convention | work=] | date=July 14, 2012 | accessdate=July 15, 2012 | last= Kilar | first= Steve}}</ref>


A ] campaign launched on November 24, 2016, to support the costs of the recount, raised more than $2.5 million in under 24 hours,<ref>{{cite web|last1=McBride|first1=Jessica|title=Jill Stein Crowdfunding: Green Party Nominee Raises $5.4 Million to Fund Recounts|url=http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/jill-stein-crowdfunding-vote-recount-recounts-online-fundraising-site-wisconsin-michigan-pennsylvania-hillary-clinton-trump-fraud-hacking-rigged/|website=Heavy.com|access-date=December 2, 2016|date=November 24, 2016}}</ref> and $6.7 million in nearly a week.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Schultheis|first1=Emily|title=Jill Stein's recount fundraising: What happens to leftover money?|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jill-steins-recount-fundraising-what-happens-to-leftover-money/|access-date=December 2, 2016|agency=CBS News|date=December 1, 2016}}</ref> On November 25, 2016, with 90 minutes remaining on the deadline to petition for a recount to ]'s electoral body, Stein filed for a recount of its presidential election results. She signaled she intended to file for similar recounts in the subsequent days in ] and ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/jill-stein-submits-presidential-recount-petition-wisconsin-n688316|title=Election recount process to begin in Wisconsin after Green Party petition|work=nbcnews.com|date=November 26, 2016 |access-date=November 26, 2016}}</ref> President-elect Donald Trump issued a statement denouncing the recount request saying, "The people have spoken and the election is over." Trump further commented that the recount "is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded."<ref>{{cite news|title=READ: Trump Slams Jill Stein Over 'Ridiculous' Vote Recount Effort|url=http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/26/donald-trump-reacts-jill-steins-recount-effort-presidential-election-votes|publisher=Fox News|date=November 26, 2016|access-date=November 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127131148/http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/26/donald-trump-reacts-jill-steins-recount-effort-presidential-election-votes|archive-date=November 27, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On August 1, Stein, Honkala and three others were arrested during a ] at a Philadelphia bank to protest housing foreclosures on behalf of several city residents struggling to keep their homes.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120801green_party_nominee_jill_stein_arrested_in_philly_bank_sit-in/srvc=home&position=recent | title=Green Party nominee Jill Stein arrested in Philly bank sit-in |agency=Associated Press | work=Boston Herald | date=August 1, 2012 | accessdate=August 1, 2012 }}</ref> Stein explained her willingness to be arrested:
<blockquote>The developers and financiers made trillions of dollars through the housing bubble and the imposition of crushing debt on homeowners. And when homeowners could no longer pay them what they demanded, they went to government and got trillions of dollars of bailouts. Every effort of the Obama Administration has been to prop this system up and keep it going at taxpayer expense. It's time for this game to end. It's time for the laws be written to protect the victims and not the perpetrators.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.thenation.com/blog/169204/presidential-candidate-willing-get-arrested-fight-foreclosure-abuse# | title=A Presidential Candidate Willing to Get Arrested to Fight Foreclosure Abuse |work=] | date=August 2, 2012 | accessdate=August 2, 2012 |authorlink=John Nichols (journalist) | last=Nichols | first= John}}</ref></blockquote>


On December 2, 2016, ] ] filed a lawsuit to stop Stein's recount.<ref>{{cite news|first=David|last=Wright|title=Michigan attorney general files lawsuit to stop recount|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/politics/michigan-attorney-general-files-suit-to-stop-recount/|date=December 4, 2016|access-date= December 4, 2016|publisher=]}}</ref> On the same day in ] a U.S. District Judge denied an emergency halt to the recount, allowing it to continue until a December 9, 2016, hearing.<ref>{{cite news|first=Patrick|last=Marley|title=Federal judge denies quick halt to Wisconsin recount|date=December 2, 2016|access-date= December 4, 2016|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/12/02/trump-supporters-file-suit-stop-wisconsin-recount/94805946/|newspaper=]}}</ref> On December 3, 2016, Stein dropped the state recount case in ], citing "the barriers to verifying the vote in ] are so pervasive and that the state court system is so ill-equipped to address this problem that we must seek federal court intervention."<ref>{{cite news|first=Steph|last=Solis|title=Jill Stein to take Pennsylvania recount to federal courts|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/12/04/stein-drops-state-case-pennsylvania-recount-aims-federal-court/94946560/|date=December 4, 2016|access-date= December 4, 2016|newspaper=]}}</ref>
On October 16, Stein and Honkala were arrested after they tried to enter the site of the presidential debate at ] while protesting the exclusion of smaller political parties, such as the Green Party, from the debates.<ref>{{cite web|title=Police arrest US presidential candidate Jill Stein at debate site|url=http://rt.com/usa/news/police-jill-stein-debate-589/|publisher=rt.com|accessdate=October 16, 2012}}</ref> Stein likened her arrest to the persecution of dissident ] in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/258990979133091841|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Twitter|access-date=2016-07-28}}</ref> On October 31, Stein was arrested in Texas for criminal trespass, after trying to deliver food and supplies to environmental activists camped out in trees protesting the construction of the ] pipeline.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-10-31/news/sns-rt-us-usa-politics-greenpartybre89u1ti-20121031_1_pipeline-protest-keystone-xl-jill-stein|title=Green Party presidential hopeful arrested in pipeline protest|author=James B. Kelleher|work=Chicago Tribune|date=October 31, 2012|accessdate=November 1, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/green-party-candidate-jill-stein-arrested/2012/10/31/0f309970-2373-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story.html|title=Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein charged with trespassing in Keystone XL protest|first=Steven|last=Mufson|work=Washington Post|date=October 31, 2012|accessdate=November 1, 2012}}</ref>


Shortly after midnight on December 5, 2016, ] ] ordered ] election officials to hand-recount 4.8 million ballots, rejecting all concerns for the cost of the recount. Goldsmith wrote in his order: "As emphasized earlier, budgetary concerns are not sufficiently significant to risk the disenfranchisement of ]'s nearly 5 million voters".<ref>{{cite news|first=Robert|last=Snell|title=Judge orders Michigan presidential recount to begin at noon Monday|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/12/04/judge-holds-sunday-hearing-michigan-recount-suit/94952646/|date=December 5, 2016|access-date= December 5, 2016|newspaper=]}}</ref> Meanwhile, however, the ] ruled that Stein, who placed fourth, had no chance of winning and was not an "aggrieved candidate" and ordered the ] election board to reject her petition for a recount.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Latest: Federal Judge Sets Hearing on Michigan Recount|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-michigans-largest-county-starts-recount-44009466|date=December 7, 2016 |access-date=December 7, 2016|work=]}}</ref> On December 7, 2016, Judge Goldsmith halted the ] recount.<ref>{{cite news|first=Max|last=Blau|title=Michigan Recounted Halted|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politics/michigan-election-recount/|date=December 8, 2016|access-date=December 10, 2016|publisher=]}}</ref> Stein filed an appeal with the ], losing her appeal in a 3–2 decision on December 9, 2016.<ref>{{cite news|first=Phil|last=Helsel|title=Michigan Supreme Court Denies Jill Stein Recount Appeal|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/michigan-supreme-court-denies-jill-stein-recount-appeal-n694251|date=November 9, 2016|access-date= December 10, 2016|work=]}}</ref>
During the campaign, Stein repeatedly said that there were no significant differences between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/248606277352185857|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Twitter|access-date=2016-07-28}}</ref><ref name=":12">{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/235416856687693824|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Twitter|access-date=2016-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/226708038990565376|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Twitter|access-date=2016-07-28}}</ref> She said, "Romney is a wolf in a wolf’s clothing, Obama is a wolf in a sheep’s clothing, but they both essentially have the same agenda."<ref name=":12" /> She called both of them "Wall Street candidates" asking for "a mandate for four more years of corporate rule".<ref name=":11" />


On December 12, 2016, ] ] rejected Stein's request for a ] recount.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Debra|last=Weiss|title=Federal judge rejects Jill Stein's Pennsylvania recount bid, says it was 'later than last minute'|url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/federal_judge_rejects_jill_steins_pennsylvania_recount_bid_says_it_was_late/|date=December 13, 2016|access-date= December 21, 2016|magazine=ABA Journal}}</ref>
Stein received 469,501 votes (0.4%).<ref name="uselectionatlas.org"/> She received 1% or more of the vote in three states: Maine (1.3%), Oregon (1.1%), and Alaska (1.0%).


In May 2018, '']'' reported that approximately $1 million of the original $7.3 million had yet to be spent and that there remained uncertainty about what precisely the money had been spent on.<ref name="Charles Davis">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-jill-steins-recount-millions|title=What Happened to Jill Stein's Recount Millions?|last=Davis|first=Charles|date=May 30, 2018|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=May 30, 2018|language=en}}</ref>
====2016====
{{main article|Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016}}


==== Election interference investigation ====
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On December 18, 2017, '']'' reported that the ] was looking at Stein's presidential campaign for potential "collusion with the Russians."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-intel-committee-investigating-jill-stein-campaign-for-collusion-with-the-russians/2017/12/18/ea7f3f1a-e44b-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html|title=Senate intel committee investigating Jill Stein campaign for 'collusion with the Russians'|last=Demirjian|first=Karoun|date=December 18, 2017|newspaper=] |access-date=December 19, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> The Stein campaign released a statement stating it would work with investigators.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jill2016.com/for_immediate_release_monday_december_18_2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222050915/https://www.jill2016.com/for_immediate_release_monday_december_18_2007|url-status=usurped|archive-date=December 22, 2017|title=Complying with Senate Committee request, Stein urges safeguarding elections from interference – while cautioning against the targeting of political opposition.|website=Jill Stein 2016}}</ref> The Committee cleared Stein of any collusion with Russia.<ref name="bulwark030924">{{cite web |last1=Caputo |first1=Marc A. |title='Useful Idiot for Russia': DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein |url=https://www.thebulwark.com/p/useful-idiot-for-putin-russia-dnc-jill-stein-green-party |website=www.thebulwark.com |access-date=28 September 2024 |language=en |date=3 September 2024}}</ref>
On February 6, 2015, Stein announced the formation of an ] in preparation for a potential campaign for the Green Party's presidential nomination in ].<ref name="considers">Pindell, James (February 6, 2015) , '']''. Retrieved February 6, 2015</ref> On June 22, she formally announced her candidacy in a live interview with ] on ]<ref name="Exclusive">, ]. June 22, 2015, Retrieved June 23, 2015.</ref>


In December 2018, two reports commissioned by the ] found that the Russian-linked ] boosted and promoted Stein's candidacy through social media posts, targeting African-American voters in particular.<ref name="Windrem 12202017">{{cite web|last=Windrem|first=Robert|url= https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-are-senate-russia-investigators-interested-jill-stein-n831261|title= Senate Russia investigators are interested in Jill Stein|website= ]|date= December 20, 2017|accessdate= September 15, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/us/politics/jill-stein-russian-election-interference-senate-intelligence.html|title= Senate Investigators Scrutinize Another Presidential Candidate: Jill Stein|website= ]|accessdate= September 15, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/general-news-b003a8a686974ea1b8f0037fb3f8c7ea|title= Senate Russia probe looking into 2016 candidate Jill Stein|website= ]|date= December 19, 2017|accessdate= September 15, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42417287|title= US Green Party's Jill Stein targeted in Russia inquiry|website= ]|date= December 19, 2017|accessdate= September 15, 2024}}</ref> After consulting the two reports, ] reporter Robert Windrem said that nothing suggested Stein knew about the operation.<ref name="NBCWindrem">{{Cite web|author=Robert Windrem|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166|title=Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump, reports say|website=NBC News|date=December 22, 2018 |language=en|access-date=December 30, 2018}}</ref> It also highlighted several independent analyses that "add to the growing body of evidence that the Russians worked to boost the Stein campaign as part of the effort to siphon support away from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and tilt the election to Trump."<ref name="Windrem 12202017"/> Stein was also criticized for sitting at the same table as Russian president ] at the ] 10th anniversary gala in Moscow. Stein said she had attended the event in the hope of speaking to Putin about his policy in Syria, climate change and other issues.<ref name=":42" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Licon |first=Adriana Gomez |date=2023-11-10 |title=Jill Stein launches a long-shot Green Party presidential campaign, bringing back memories of 2016 |url=https://apnews.com/article/jill-stein-running-for-president-2024-f4d6ab729c94f413d5678e68ae4718d4 |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=AP News |language=en |quote=She was criticized for attending a 2015 dinner in Moscow sponsored by Russian television network RT and sitting at the same table as Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has invaded neighboring Ukraine.}}</ref> Stein, who has regularly appeared on RT and Sputnik during her 2012 and 2016 campaigns, announced her decision to form an exploratory committee to run in 2016 during the U.S.-based RT program "Redacted Tonight" in February 2015.<ref name="Windrem 12202017"/> NBC said there was no evidence in the reports to indicate that Stein was aware any influence operation. NBC stated that Stein had been criticised for "her support of international policies that mirror Russian foreign policy goals."<ref name="NBCWindrem"/> Stein regularly appeared on RT.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schreckinger |first=Ben |date=June 20, 2017 |title=Jill Stein Isn't Sorry |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/20/jill-stein-green-party-no-regrets-2016-215281/ |work=Politico}}</ref><ref name=":42">{{Cite web |date=2018-12-22 |title=Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump, reports say |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166 |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref><ref name="HawkinsSteinRussia2">{{Cite web |date=June 20, 2020 |title=Jill Stein cost Hillary dearly in 2016. Democrats are still writing off her successor. |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/20/democrats-shrug-off-potential-green-party-spoiler-in-2020-329170 |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}</ref>
After former Ohio state senator ] reportedly declined to be her running mate,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/08/nina_turner_turns_down_offer_t.html|title=Nina Turner turns down offer to be the Green Party's candidate for vice president|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> Stein chose human rights activist ] on August 1.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://time.com/4434544/jill-stein-ajamu-baraka-vice-president-green-party/|title=Green Party's Jill Stein Picks Ajamu Baraka as Running Mate|last=Iyengar|first=Rishi|magazine=Time|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref> When asked whether she agreed with Baraka's characterization of President Obama as an "Uncle Tom", Stein said: "He'll have to speak himself about that language".<ref name=":03" />


In an official statement, Stein called one of the reports, the one authored by ], "dangerous new McCarthyism" and asked the Senate Committee to retract it, saying the firm was "sponsored by partisan Democratic funders" and had itself been shown to have been "directly involved in election interference" in the ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Stein calls on Senate Committee to retract election interference report by cybersecurity firm caught interfering in US election|url=https://www.jill2016.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207071926/http://www.jill2016.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 7, 2015|date=December 26, 2017|author=Jill Stein}}</ref>
Stein has stated that the Democratic and Republican parties are "two corporate parties" that have converged into one.<ref name="reddit">{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ixbr5/i_am_jill_stein_green_party_candidate_for/d31zimt?context=3|title=I am Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, AMA! • /r/IAmA|website=reddit|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref> Concerned by the rise of fascism internationally and the rise of ] within the Democratic Party, she has said, "The answer to neofascism is stopping neoliberalism. Putting another Clinton in the White House will fan the flames of this right-wing extremism. We have known that for a long time, ever since ]."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.734445|title=WATCH //Jill Stein: To stop Trump's neofascism, we must stop Clinton's neoliberalism - U.S. Election 2016|website=Haaretz.com|access-date=2016-07-31}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvAJ2WrJm3Q|title=Left Forum 2016, Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power?|website=youtube|publisher=Open University of the Left|access-date=2016-08-17}}</ref>


By July 31, 2018, Stein had spent slightly under $100,000 of the recount money on legal representation linked to the Senate probe into election interference.<ref name="Charles Davis2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-recount-cash-pays-for-her-russia-legal-defense|title=Jill Stein's Recount Cash Pays for Her Russia Legal Defense|last=Davis|first=Charles|date=July 13, 2018|access-date=August 5, 2019|language=en}}</ref> In March 2019, Stein's spokesman ] said she had "fully cooperated with the Senate inquiry."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stein|first1=Sam|last2=Woodruff|first2=Betsy|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-stein-cooperated-with-congressional-russia-investigators|title=Jill Stein Cooperated With Congressional Russia Investigators|work=The Daily Beast|date=March 29, 2019|access-date=July 17, 2019}}</ref>
=====Tax returns=====
According to ] tax blogger Peter J. Reilly, Stein had yet to release her tax returns by July 2016. Despite promising to release her tax returns during her 2012 campaign, she never did. She last released her tax returns when she ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2010.<ref name=":16">{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2016/07/30/where-are-jill-steins-tax-returns/#7bafe3fe65d5|title=Where Are Jill Stein's Tax Returns?|last=Reilly|first=Peter J|access-date=2016-07-30}}</ref> By August 2016, the first two pages of Stein's 2015 tax return were on her website.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jill2016.com/tax_returns|title=Tax Returns|access-date=2016-08-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2016/08/11/jill-stein-releases-2015-federal-tax-return/#7104ae124d3a|title=Jill Stein Releases 2015 Federal Tax Return|last=Reilly|first=Peter J|access-date=2016-08-12}}</ref>


=== 2024 Presidential campaign ===
=====Polls=====
{{Main|Jill Stein 2024 presidential campaign}}
Stein has polled as high as 7% in general election polling (a June 2016 poll).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2016/images/06/21/rel7b.-.2016.general.pdf|title=CNN/ORC International Poll|website=CNN News|language=en-US|access-date=June 24, 2016}}</ref> A CNN poll released on August 1 showed that 13% of Sanders supporters would vote for Stein (and 10% for Libertarian Party candidate ]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/01/politics/trump-vs-clinton-presidential-polls-election-2016/index.html|title=Post-convention poll: Clinton retakes lead over Trump|last=Director|first=Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling|website=CNN|access-date=2016-08-03}}</ref> Between June and August, Stein's polling average in a four-way race with Trump, Clinton and Johnson has ranged between 2.5% and 4.8%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html|title=RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - General Election: Trump vs. Clinton vs. Johnson vs. Stein|website=www.realclearpolitics.com|access-date=2016-08-04}}</ref> Support for third-party candidates has historically tended to decline as the election approaches.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/upshot/can-gary-johnson-the-libertarian-nominee-swing-the-election.html|title=Can Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Nominee, Swing the Election?|last=Katz|first=Josh|date=2016-08-04|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-08-04|quote=Since 1968, all of the major third-party candidates have seen their polling averages decline closer to the election. ... Jill Stein, the Green Party's presumptive nominee ... is polling in the low-single digits and is a long shot to make the debates.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|author=Aaron Blake|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/05/a-new-poll-has-donald-trump-in-fourth-place-behind-hillary-clinton-gary-johnson-and-jill-stein-with-young-people/|title= A new poll has Trump in fourth — behind Gary Johnson AND Jill Stein — with young people|date=August 5, 2016|newspaper=Washington Post|quote=Third-party candidates tend to poll better before Election Day than they actually perform on Election Day. ... If history is any guide (and it has not always been one this election cycle), support for Johnson and Stein will ebb over the next three months.}}</ref> In "An Eight Point Brief for LEV (])", Noam Chomsky has argued that those going to the polls in swing states "should devote the minimum of time necessary to exercise the LEV choice then immediately return to pursuing goals which are not timed to the national electoral cycle."<ref name="LEV">{{cite web|last1=Halle / Chomsky|first1=John / Noam|title=An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)|url=https://chomsky.info/an-eight-point-brief-for-lev-lesser-evil-voting/|website=chomsky.info|accessdate=19 August 2016|date=15 Jun 2016}}</ref>
==== Primary ====
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Stein originally supported activist and scholar ] under the Green Party and became his ].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=McKend |first1=Eva |last2=Krieg |first2=Gregory |date=June 22, 2023 |title=Jill Stein enlisted to help build Cornel West's third-party presidential campaign |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/jill-stein-cornel-west-president-2024/index.html |access-date=November 9, 2023 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref> After West withdrew his bid for the Green presidential nomination in order to instead continue his run for the presidency as an ], Stein retracted her endorsement for West and said the Green Party would find a nominee elsewhere. She also hinted at a possible bid of her own.<ref>{{Cite tweet |title=Breaking – Stein & Baraka wish Dr. West well, affirm support for a strong Green campaign Boston – Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, previously advisors to the West campaign, today wished Cornel West well in his upcoming independent presidential campaign, in the following joint statement: "As colleagues who helped persuade Dr. West to pursue the Green nomination, we appreciate the good faith effort he has made over the past four months. Running solo, however, may better suit his long standing role as a fiercely independent voice of moral authority. While we share Dr. West's formidable commitment to peace and justice, we are respectfully parting ways at this juncture, as we are committed to building a±n independent people-powered party as an indispensable vehicle for challenging empire and oligarchy for the long haul. "In light of Dr. West's decision to run independently, we are in discussion with several former candidates about potentially entering the race to carry the Green Party's anti-war, pro-worker, climate emergency agenda into this critical election. "With the Democratic Party now leading the charge for war and censorship, betraying workers on the rail strike and dropping the $15 dollar minimum wage, outdoing Trump in new fossil fuel projects on public lands, and voluntarily resuming crushing student debt payments when people are barely scraping by paycheck to paycheck – for all these reasons and more, we need an independent, corporate-free people's party more than ever. "In deciding to run as an independent, the West campaign leaves behind the ballot lines they would have had access to, as well as the guidance of experienced ballot access staff and Green volunteers familiar with the process in most of the 50 states. We expect this will be a formidable obstacle in the coming months. "Though Dr. West won't be running with our team, he is offering an inspired, courageous example to voters and candidates alike. We believe he is making an immeasurable contribution to the 2024 election, and for that we are deeply grateful. Given our similar visions and agendas, we will continue to look for synergy on the road ahead."|user=DrJillStein|number=1709982608904339651 |access-date=November 9, 2023 |website=X (formerly Twitter) |language=en}}</ref>{{Overly detailed inline|date=October 2024}}{{Primary source inline|date=October 2024}}


On November 9, 2023, Stein announced her third bid for president.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Astor |first=Maggie |date=November 9, 2023 |title=Jill Stein Announces Third-Party Bid for President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/us/politics/jill-stein-presidential-bid.html |website=]}}</ref> Having also run in 2016, Stein was described by Robert Tait as having the potential to erode Joe Biden's support in the general election among left-wing voters.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tait|first=Robert|date=November 22, 2023 |title=Jill Stein formally launches 2024 White House bid as Green party candidate |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/21/jill-stein-2024-presidential-election-green-party-candidate |access-date=January 12, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Trudo |first=Hanna |date=November 12, 2023 |title=Jill Stein adds to Biden's 2024 problems |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4304775-jill-stein-2024-biden-manchin/ |access-date=January 13, 2024 |work=The Hill |language=en-US}}</ref>
=====Endorsements=====
{{main article|List of Jill Stein presidential campaign endorsements, 2016}}


When announcing her candidacy, Stein described the two-party political system as "broken." She called for prioritizing a "pro-worker, anti-war, climate emergency agenda" in the upcoming election, aiming to bring these issues to the forefront of national discourse.<ref name=":0" />
Stein has been endorsed by ] Professor ], one of Sanders' appointees to the Democratic Platform Committee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/18/why_a_member_of_the_democratic|title=Cornel West: Why I Endorse Green Party's Jill Stein Over "Neoliberal Disaster" Hillary Clinton|last=Goodman|first=Amy|date=2016-07-18|website=|publisher=|access-date=2016-07-30}}</ref> Author ] again endorsed Stein in 2016.<ref name="HedgesReich">{{cite web|title=Chris Hedges v. Robert Reich on Clinton, Third Parties, Capitalism & Next Steps for Sanders Backers|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/4/as_green_party_convention_opens_watch|website=Democracy Now!|accessdate=18 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="Hedges">{{cite web|url=http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_i_support_dr_jill_stein_for_president_20160221|title=Why I Support Dr. Jill Stein for President|last=Hedges|first=Chris|date=16 February 2016|website=Truthdig|publisher=|access-date=20 August 2016}}</ref> ] member ], of the ] party, also has endorsed Stein.<ref name="Sawant">{{cite web|last1=Sawant|first1=Kshame|title=Bernie Sanders Abandons the Revolution|url=http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/13/bernie-sanders-abandons-the-revolution/|website=CounterPunch|accessdate=20 August 2016|date=13 July 2016}}</ref>

Stein has also been an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding the ]. Following the ], she condemned Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip and criticized President Joe Biden for what she described as a failure to intervene against what she termed Israel's "genocidal rampage."<ref name=":0">staff. (2024). Jill Stein | 2024 presidential candidate. Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/jill-stein-2024</ref> Jill Stein's campaign platform advocates for what they describe as a comprehensive approach to addressing social and economic inequality through the establishment of an Economic Bill of Rights. This includes the rights to a living wage, housing, healthcare, childcare, education, retirement, healthy food, and clean water.<ref name="nyt">{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein Announces Third-Party Bid for President |website=] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/us/politics/jill-stein-presidential-bid.html |access-date=2024-11-13}}</ref>

==== General election ====
The 2024 campaign, like Stein's ], was described by some as a possible ], which may benefit ].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Blake |first=Aaron |date=2024-08-26 |title=Analysis {{!}} RFK Jr.'s exit pushes the 2024 spoiler effect to the left |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/26/rfk-minor-party-candidates-spoiler-effect/ |access-date=2024-08-27 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref name=":52">{{Cite news |last=Siddiqui |first=Sabrina |date=September 21, 2024 |title=Republicans Boost Jill Stein as Potential Harris Spoiler |url=https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/jill-stein-republican-support-harris-voters-5a194ebf |work=The Wall Street Journal}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Doherty |first=Erin |date=September 27, 2024 |title=How Jill Stein could derail Democrats again |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/09/27/jill-stein-democrats-2024-republicans |work=Axios}}</ref> Stein said "Candidates have to earn your vote, they don’t own your vote."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Markoe |first1=Lauren |title=Jill Stein says war in Gaza 'makes any genocide pale by comparison' — and then says she misspoke |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/648351/jill-stein-genocide-gaza-misspoke-cspan/ |website=The Forward |language=en |date=27 August 2024}}</ref>

In September 2024, Congresswoman ] 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.'" Stein responded that Green candidates had won "1400 elections" and that the Democratic Party had worked to exclude third-party candidates from ballots and presidential debates.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barber |first=Rachel |title=Jill Stein hits back after AOC says her bids for the White House are 'predatory' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/03/aoc-jill-stein-predatory/75053510007/|date=September 3, 2024 |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":62">{{Cite magazine |last=Rothpletz |first=Peter |date=September 17, 2024 |title=Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/186004/green-jill-stein-2024-election |access-date=2024-09-27 |magazine=The New Republic |issn=0028-6583}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Guzman |first=Chad de |date=2024-09-04 |title=What to Know About AOC's Feud With Jill Stein and the Green Party |url=https://time.com/7017339/not-serious-jill-stein-aoc-green-party-election-democrats-war/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |magazine=TIME |language=en}}</ref> Peter Rothpletz in '']'' criticized Stein for the decline in Green party membership from 319,000 in 2004 to 234,000 in 2024 and for arguing in a 2016 interview that ] was a greater threat than ]. Rothpletz also referred to criticism of Stein by members of the Democratic Party that she defended members of the ], who were indicted for being part of a "malign influence campaign" on behalf of the Russian government, and that she did not know how many members were in the House of Representatives.<ref name=":62" />


==Political positions== ==Political positions==
=== Economy and infrastructure ===
In her 2024 presidential campaign announcement video, Stein proposed an "economic bill of rights" that regard employment, health care, housing, food and education as rights.<ref name="nyt" />


In 2015, Stein was critical of official employment numbers, saying that unemployment figures were "designed to essentially cover up unemployment," and that the real unemployment rate for that year was around 12–13%.<ref name="oti1">{{cite news |date=March 24, 2016 |title=Jill Stein on Budget & Economy |publisher=] |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_+_Economy.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411104057/http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_%2B_Economy.htm |archive-date=April 11, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Weissmann">{{cite magazine |last=Weissmann |first=Jordan |date=July 27, 2016 |title=Jill Stein's Ideas Are Terrible. She Is Not the Savior the Left Is Looking For. |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/27/jill_stein_is_not_the_savior_the_left_is_looking_for.html |magazine=]}}</ref>
===Economy ===
Referring to President ]'s ] approach to the ], Stein advocated a "]" in her 2012 and 2016 campaigns, in which renewable energy jobs would be created to address climate change and environmental issues; the objective would be to employ "every American willing and able to work".<ref name="GND">{{cite web|url=http://greenpapers.net/jobs-for-all-with-a-green-new-deal/ |title=Jobs for All with a Green New Deal |work=Green-Rainbow.org |date=September 5, 2011 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20141019035142/http://greenpapers.net/jobs-for-all-with-a-green-new-deal/ |archivedate=October 19, 2014 }}</ref> Stein said she would fund the start-up costs of the plan with a 30% reduction in the U.S. military budget, returning U.S. troops home, and increasing taxes on ] in stock markets, offshore tax havens, and multi-million-dollar real estate, among other things. In 2012 and 2016 she cited a 2012 study in the '']'' by ] professor Phillip Harvey<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Harvey|first=Philip|date=2012-01-20|title=Learning from the New Deal|url=http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12114-011-9127-x|journal=The Review of Black Political Economy|language=en|volume=39|issue=1|pages=87–105|doi=10.1007/s12114-011-9127-x|issn=0034-6446}}</ref> showing that the multiplier economic effects of this "Green New Deal" would recoup most of the start-up costs of her plan.<ref name="GND" /> Stein further argued that her plan "will end unemployment and poverty".<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jill2016.com/plan|title=Power to the People Plan|access-date=2016-07-14}}</ref>


====Financial reform and banking regulation====
Stein's 2016 platform says that she will "democratize the ]".<ref name=":5" /> In her 2012 platform, she wanted to "nationalize" the Federal Reserve and place it within the Treasury Department, ending ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/10/26/if_only_we_could_vote_for_a_third_party/|title=If only it made sense to vote for a third party|last=Olear|first=Greg|website=Salon|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.p2012.org/stein/greennewdealjan2012.html|title=Jan. 2012 Jill Stein A Green New Deal for America|website=www.p2012.org|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> Stein has argued that the ] was unconscionable<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Jill Stein Interview With Fox Business News Panel
|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lelEx10_PMQ|last1=Fox Business News Panel|accessdate=26 July 2016}}</ref> and a "waste".<ref name=":17">{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/10/03/not-your-average-jill-stein-interview/#1d02125f6575|title=Not Your Average Jill Stein Interview|last=Reilly|first=Peter J|access-date=2016-08-01}}</ref> In 2012, Stein opposed the raising of the ], arguing that the U.S. should instead raise taxes on the wealthy and make military spending cuts to offset the debt.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_+_Economy.htm|title=Jill Stein on Budget & Economy|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> Stein called the ] wasteful.<ref name=":17">{{Cite web |last=Reilly |first=Peter J |title=Not Your Average Jill Stein Interview |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/10/03/not-your-average-jill-stein-interview/#1d02125f6575 |access-date=August 1, 2016 |website=]}}</ref> In 2012, Stein opposed the raising of the ], saying that the U.S. should instead raise taxes on the wealthy and make military spending cuts to offset the debt.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Budget & Economy |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_+_Economy.htm |access-date=July 27, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}


In 2016, Stein said that she supported a new 0.5% ] on the sale of ]s, ], and ], and an increase in the ] to "at least" 55% on inheritances over $3 million.<ref name="Scott">Eugene Scott, , CNN Money (August 17, 2016).</ref>
Stein supports the creation of sustainable infrastructure based on clean renewable-energy generation and sustainable-community principles to stop what her party sees as a growing convergence of environmental crises in water, soil, fisheries, and forests. Her vision includes increasing intra-city ] and inter-city ], creating ] that safely encourage bike and pedestrian traffic, and regional food systems based on sustainable organic agriculture.<ref name=GND/>


During her 2012 and 2016 presidential runs, Stein called for "nationalizing" and "democratiz" the ], placing it under a Federal Monetary Authority in the Treasury Department and ending ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/10/26/if_only_we_could_vote_for_a_third_party/|title=If only it made sense to vote for a third party|last=Olear|first=Greg|website=Salon|access-date=July 27, 2016|date=October 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Eugene|last1=Scott|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/08/17/news/jill-stein-economic-policy/|title=Where the Green Party's Jill Stein stands on jobs, taxes and more|website=CNN Money|date=August 17, 2016|quote="The candidate also wants to nationalize the Federal Reserve banks and place them under a Federal Monetary Authority within the Treasury Department."}}</ref>
Stein has been skeptical of official employment numbers, saying in her 2015 State of the Union Green Party response that unemployment figures at the time were "designed to essentially cover up unemployment," and arguing that the real unemployment rate for that year was around 12–13%.<ref>{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411104057/http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_+_Economy.htm |archive-date=April 11, 2016 |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_+_Economy.htm |title=Jill Stein on Budget & Economy |publisher=] |date=24 March 2016}}</ref><ref name=Weissmann>{{cite news |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/27/jill_stein_is_not_the_savior_the_left_is_looking_for.html |title=Jill Stein’s Ideas Are Terrible. She Is Not the Savior the Left Is Looking For. |first=Jordan |last=Weissmann |publisher='']'' |date=July 27, 2016}}</ref> In February 2016, she said that "real unemployment is nearly 10%, 2x as high as the official rate."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/698235171393441792|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Twitter|access-date=2016-07-28}}</ref>


She supported the creation of nonprofit publicly owned banks, pledging to create such entities at the federal and state levels.<ref name="Scott" />
Stein has said she believes in having "the government as the employer of last resort".<ref name=":03">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/25/a-transcript-of-jill-steins-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-board/?utm_term=.18bae5fa7b4a|title=A transcript of Jill Stein’s meeting with The Washington Post editorial board|last=Staff|first=Post Opinions|date=2016-08-25|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-08-26}}</ref> When asked in an August 2016 interview what this entailed, she said that the idea was a "very broad brushstroke" but that a position paper was forthcoming.<ref name=":03" />


=== Education ===
Stein's platform pledges to guarantee housing.<ref name=":03" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jill2016.com/plan|title=Power to the People Plan|access-date=2016-08-26}}</ref> When asked how this would be done, Stein answered, "that is an aspirational goal at this point. We do not have a specific program."<ref name=":03" />
Stein opposes ] and has been critical of the ], saying that teachers rather than "corporate contractors" should be responsible for education.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Education |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Education.htm |access-date=June 9, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}


===Education === ===Health effects of Wi-Fi===
{{See also|Electromagnetic radiation and health}}
In a much-discussed interaction with parents and teachers, Stein stated that she felt the move towards computerized education in kindergarten was good neither for young children's cognitive nor social development, saying, "We should be moving away from screens at all levels of education."<ref name="screens">{{Cite web|url=|title="We Should Not Be Subjecting Children's Brains To Wi-Fi Screens In Schools. It's Not OK" Jill Stein |website=Safe Teach for Schools|access-date=2016-08-13}}</ref> She argues that such a policy is not good for teachers, children, or communities, but does benefit device manufacturers.<ref name="screens" /> Her position on Wi-Fi in the classroom is likewise critical of device manufacturers:<blockquote>We should not be subjecting kids' brains especially to that... and we don’t follow this issue in our country, but in Europe where they do they have good precautions about wireless. Maybe not good enough it’s very hard to study this stuff. You know, we make guinea pigs out of whole populations and then we discover how many die. This is the paradigm for how public health works in this country. Our research institutions, as well, need to be publicly funded and publicly accountable, not for the device manufacturers, not sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies.<ref name="screens" /></blockquote>
In a question-and-answer session, Stein voiced concern about ] in schools, saying, "We should not be subjecting kids' brains especially to that{{nbsp}}... We don't follow that issue in this country, but in Europe, where they do, they have good precautions around wireless, maybe not good enough."<ref name=":20">{{Cite web |author=Eli Watkins |date=August 16, 2016 |title=Anti-science claims dog Green Party's Jill Stein |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/jill-stein-vaccine-gmo-science/index.html |access-date=October 25, 2016 |website=CNN}}</ref> Stein later said, "we should listen to what scientific experts are saying and take precautions about how much we expose young children to WiFi and cellphones until we know more about the long-term health effects of this type of low-level radiation."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Spielberg |first=Ben |title=The media — and many Democrats — need to stop attacking Jill Stein unfairly |newspaper=Vox |url=https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/10/24/13360512/jill-stein-media-unfair-democrats-treatment|date=October 24, 2016 |access-date=October 25, 2016}}</ref>


In an interview with the ''Los Angeles Times'' editorial board, Stein clarified that her statements on Wi-Fi were "not a policy statement" and that attention to her statement on Wi-Fi was "a sign of a gotcha political system".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Times |first=Los Angeles |date=September 6, 2016 |title=Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-jill-stein-transcript-20160906-snap-story.html |access-date=October 25, 2016 |website=]}}</ref>
Stein has argued for "free higher public education going forward."<ref name=":03" /> She has spoken in favor of canceling all student debt, arguing that it could be done "using ]" and without raising taxes.<ref name=":72">{{Citation|last=The Young Turks|title=How Dr. Jill Stein Will ERASE Student Loan Debt|date=2016-06-08|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzwZtmTEMuw|accessdate=2016-07-26}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite web|url=http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2016/07/07/green-partys-jill-stein-on-tax-free-student-loan-bailout.html|title=Green Party's Jill Stein on Tax-Free Student Loan Bailout {{!}} Fox Business|last=Wisner|first=Matthew|date=2016-07-07|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> According to Stein, ] "is a magic trick that basically people don't need to understand any more about than that it is a magic trick."<ref name=":72" /> She has said that her plan would be "the stimulus package of our dreams to put to work a whole generation of young people that's held hostage in debt".<ref name=":9" /> She has said that her campaign will do for the "43 million young people trapped in predatory student loan debt" what "our ''mis''-leaders saw fit to do for Wall Street when they bailed them out to the tune of 16 or 17 trillion dollars using so called ]".<ref name=":72" /> When asked why her plan includes canceling the debt of upper-income individuals, Stein answered, "Well, for one thing, we know that higher education pays for itself. It’s a very important thing to do."<ref name=":03" />


===Debt forgiveness===
She opposes charter schools and has been critical of the Common Core, saying that teachers rather than "corporate contractors" should be responsible for education.<ref name=":02">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Education.htm|title=Jill Stein on Education|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=2016-06-09}}</ref>
Stein favors canceling all student loan debt, saying that it could be done using ], similar to the ], without raising taxes. In this plan, the ] could buy up student loans and agree not to collect the debt, thereby effectively canceling it.<ref name=":26">{{Cite web |last=DiChristopher |first=Tom |date=August 10, 2016 |title=Green Party candidate Jill Stein says we need a jobs program like the 'New Deal' |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/10/jill-stein-says-we-need-an-emergency-job-program-like-the-new-deal.html |access-date=August 30, 2016 |website=CNBC}}</ref>


===Electoral reform=== ===Electoral reform===
Stein is critical of the ], and argues for ] as a favorable alternative to "lesser evilism".<ref name="lumpenprole">{{cite web|last1=Kolhatkar|first1=Sonali|title=The Green Party’s Dr. Jill Stein on Democracy & Ranked Choice Voting|url=https://lumpenproletariat.org/2016/03/21/the-green-partys-dr-jill-stein-on-democracy-ranked-choice-voting/|website=Lumpenproletariat|accessdate=16 August 2016}}</ref><ref name="duopoly">{{cite web|last1=Speri|first1=Alice|title=The Two-Party System is the Worst Case Scenario: An Interview with the Green Party's Jill Stein/|url=https://theintercept.com/2016/07/29/the-two-party-system-is-the-worst-case-scenario-an-interview-with-the-green-partys-jill-stein/|website=The Intercept|accessdate=16 August 2016}}</ref> Calling for "more voices and more choices", the Stein campaign launched a petition demanding that all candidates appearing on a sufficient number of state ballots to be theoretically electable should be invited to participate in the ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Open the Debates Petition|url=http://www.jill2016.com/openthedebatespetition|publisher=Jill Stein for President|accessdate=22 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Open Up the Debates: Green Party's Jill Stein Accuses Democrats & GOP of Rigging Debate Rules|url=http://www.democracynow.org/2016/8/18/open_up_the_debates_green_partys|website=Democracy Now!|accessdate=22 August 2016}}</ref> Stein is critical of the ], and argues for ] as a favorable alternative to "lesser evilism".<ref name="lumpenprole">{{cite web|last1=Kolhatkar|first1=Sonali|title=The Green Party's Dr. Jill Stein on Democracy & Ranked Choice Voting|url=https://lumpenproletariat.org/2016/03/21/the-green-partys-dr-jill-stein-on-democracy-ranked-choice-voting/|website=Lumpenproletariat|access-date=August 16, 2016|date=March 21, 2016}}</ref><ref name="duopoly">{{cite web|last1=Speri|first1=Alice|title=The Two-Party System is the Worst Case Scenario: An Interview with the Green Party's Jill Stein/|url=https://theintercept.com/2016/07/29/the-two-party-system-is-the-worst-case-scenario-an-interview-with-the-green-partys-jill-stein/|website=The Intercept|access-date=August 16, 2016|date=July 29, 2016}}</ref> Stein has advocated for campaign finance reform.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet Jill |url=https://www.jillstein2024.com/meet_jill |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=Stein / Ware 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="britjs">{{Cite web |date=2024-11-08 |title=Jill Stein {{!}} Education, Medical Career, Activism, Election Results, Green New Deal, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jill-Stein |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>


===Energy and environment === === Energy and environment ===
Stein says that climate change is a "national emergency" and calling it "a threat greater than World War II."<ref>{{Cite news |title=Climate change, erasing student debt top policies for Stein |publisher=Yahoo News |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-erasing-student-debt-top-policies-stein-135111430--election.html |url-status=dead |access-date=November 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107092511/https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-erasing-student-debt-top-policies-stein-135111430--election.html |archive-date=November 7, 2016}}</ref>
Stein proposes that the United States transition to 100% renewable energy by 2030,<ref name=":5" /> and supports a national ban on ].<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Energy_+_Oil.htm|title=Jill Stein on Energy & Oil|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=2016-06-09}}</ref> She has spoken against ], saying it "is dirty, dangerous and expensive, and should be precluded on all of those counts."<ref name=":2" /> In March 2016, she tweeted, "Nuclear power plants = weapons of mass destruction waiting to be detonated."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/drjillstein/status/715230945679380481|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Twitter|access-date=2016-08-07}}</ref> In 2012, Stein said, "three times more jobs are created per dollar invested in conservation and renewables. Nuclear is currently the most expensive per unit of energy created."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/zs2n3/i_am_jill_stein_green_party_presidential/c678xe7?context=3|title=I am Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, ask me anything. • /r/IAmA|website=reddit|access-date=2016-07-19}}</ref> Stein says that she will "ensure that any worker displaced by the shift away from fossil fuels will receive full income and benefits as they transition to alternative work."<ref name=":6" /> She has further argued that moving away from fossil fuels will produce substantial savings in healthcare costs.<ref name="nominationSpeech"/> She wants to "treat energy as a human right".<ref name=":6" />


'''Fossil fuels '''
Stein accepts the scientific consensus on climate change, calling it a "national emergency".<ref name=":03" /> She has described the ] as inadequate, saying it will not stop climate change.<ref name=":03" /> She has proposed to override the agreement and create a more effective one.<ref name=":03" />


Stein supports a national ban on ] on the grounds that "cutting-edge science now suggests fracking is every bit as bad as coal".<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |date=September 6, 2016 |title=Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-jill-stein-transcript-20160906-snap-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Energy & Oil |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Energy_+_Oil.htm |access-date=June 9, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}</ref>
Stein has argued that the cost of transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2030 would in part be recouped by healthcare savings, citing the experience of Cuba when it lost Soviet oil subsidies and Cubans experienced improvements in health outcomes.<ref name=":03" />


'''Nuclear power '''
===Foreign policy ===
Stein wants to cut U.S. military spending by at least 50%.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Homeland_Security.htm|title=Jill Stein on Homeland Security|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=2016-06-09}}</ref> She would close US overseas military bases and has said that they "are turning our republic into a bankrupt empire".<ref name=":5" /> She wants to replace the lost military jobs "with jobs in renewable energy, transportation and green infrastructure development"<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jill2016.com/platform|title=Jill Stein 2016 Platform|access-date=2016-07-14}}</ref> and to "restore the ] as the centerpiece of our defense".<ref name=":6" />


Stein has spoken against ], saying it "is dirty, dangerous and expensive, and should be precluded on all of those counts."<ref name=":2" />{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}
Stein has argued that the United States "helped foment" a coup in Ukraine, maintaining that Ukraine should be neutral and that the United States should not arm it.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Foreign_Policy.htm|title=Jill Stein on Foreign Policy|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=2016-06-09}}</ref> She was critical of the Ukrainian government formed after the ], saying that "ultra-nationalists and ex-Nazis came to power."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Foreign_Policy.htm|title=Jill Stein on Foreign Policy|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=2016-08-07}}</ref> She met with president ] in Moscow in December 2015 at a banquet celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Russian state television network '']''. While in Russia, Stein criticized Russian and American military spending, as well as the state of human rights in the U.S<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://americablog.com/2016/08/jill-stein-moscow-criticized-us-human-rights-said-nothing-russian-human-rights.html|title=Jill Stein in Moscow criticized US human rights, said nothing about Russian human rights - AMERICAblog News|date=2016-08-06|language=en-US|access-date=2016-08-07}}</ref>


'''Implications '''
On the subject of ], Stein tweeted, "Who exactly is NATO fighting? ...Other than enemies we invent to give the weapons industry a reason to sell more stuff."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/720798953147604992|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Twitter|access-date=2016-07-28}}</ref> Stein has said that NATO violates international law, and that it is part of "of a foreign policy that has been based on economic and military domination".<ref name=":03" /> When asked whether she agreed with Ajamu Baraka's description of NATO as "gangster states", Stein answered that she would not use Baraka's language but that "he means the same thing I'm saying".<ref name=":03" /> Stein has said that NATO "pursued a policy of basically encircling ] — including the threat of nukes and drones and so on."<ref name=":1" /> When asked by the ''Washington Post'' about NATO's role in the Baltic, Stein responded that NATO has not followed its stated policy after the fall of the Berlin Wall not to move "one inch to the East." She further argued that there had been provocation on both sides and that a diplomatic approach was neccessary. <ref name=":03" />


In 2016, Stein has argued that the cost of transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2030 would in part be recouped by healthcare savings, citing studies that predict 200,000 fewer premature deaths as well as less illness. She has noted that when Cuba lost Soviet oil subsidies it experienced plummeting ] (down 50%), ] (down 30%) and all-cause (down 18%) death rates.<ref name=":9" />
Stein would approach the ] by putting in place a weapons embargo, freezing funds going to ISIL and other terrorist groups, and pushing "very hard to have a peace process and to call a ceasefire".<ref name=":03" /> On August 12, 2016, the day when U.S.-backed ] captured ] from ], Stein tweeted an apology to Syrians, "To Syrians who escaped Manbij because of U.S.-led forces, I'm sorry our weapons terrorized you for two years."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/764302997404999680|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Twitter|access-date=2016-08-13}}</ref> Stein is in favor of taking "far more" than the 10,000 Syrian refugees that Obama has pledged to take in, but does not have a precise number in mind.<ref name=":03" />


=== Foreign and defense policy ===
When asked if she considered Obama a war criminal, Stein said, "Do I think he has violated international law? Good lord, yes! The drone wars have been the worst for human rights. It's an illegal assassination program - and worse, it's off target nine times out of 10."<ref name="Kuntzman">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/green-party-candidate-slams-obama-trump-clinton-article-1.2640149|author=Gersh Kuntzman|publisher=New York Daily News|title=Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein slams the system, law-breaking Obama, ‘Frankenstein’ Trump and ‘corporate’ Hillary Clinton |access-date=2016-07-29}}</ref>
At a rally in 2016, she criticized the United States' "expanding wars", saying that the United States had "already" been bombing seven countries.<ref>. PolitiFact. October 21, 2016.</ref>


In 2012, Stein favored maintaining current levels of ] spending.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web |title=The Voter's Self Defense System |url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/35775/jill-stein/ |access-date=July 27, 2016 |website=Project Vote Smart |language=en-US}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}
Regarding ], Stein has said that "it is wrongheaded for to deal with territorial rights on the borders of ]."<ref name=":1" />


==== Israel and Palestine ====
Stein has been highly ], accusing the Israeli government of "apartheid, assassination, illegal settlements, blockades, building of nuclear bombs, indefinite detention, collective punishment, and defiance of international law."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thepeaceresource.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/dr-jill-stein-on-israel-palestine-and-the-middle-east/|title=Dr. Jill Stein on Israel, Palestine and The Middle East|date=2015-08-30|website=The Peace Resource|access-date=2016-05-15}}</ref> Stein supports the ] campaign against Israel<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jill2016.com/statement_on_us_foreign_policy_palestine_israel_and_bds|title=Statement on US Foreign Policy, Palestine-Israel, and BDS|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref> and regards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "war criminal".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/27/gpus-j27.html|title=Green Party candidate launches US presidential campaign - World Socialist Web Site|last=Martin|first=Patrick|website=www.wsws.org|access-date=2016-07-29}}</ref> Upon the death of Nobel Peace Laureate ], Stein praised him in a tribute on her Facebook page, but deleted the post when commenters criticized Wiesel's Zionism.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/210549/friends-dont-let-friends-vote-for-jill-stein|title=Friends Don't Let Friends Vote for Jill Stein|access-date=2016-08-12}}</ref>
Stein is a long-time supporter of ].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harb |first1=Ali |title=US candidate Jill Stein considering vocal Palestine advocates for VP spot |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/3/us-candidate-jill-stein-considering-vocal-palestine-advocates-for-vp-spot |website=Al Jazeera |access-date=1 October 2024 |language=en |date=3 August 2024}}</ref> Her 2012 presidential campaign opposed the ] and called for a boycott of Israel, which it described as an apartheid state.<ref name="haaretz180424" /> She is in favour of the ] movement. In 2016, she said the US should stop providing aid to Israel, which she said was committing war crimes and human rights violations.<ref name="toi160716" />


Stein said that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the 2024 ] and that both Democrats and Republicans are enabling the genocide by providing military aid to Israel while de-funding the ].<ref name="haaretz180424" />
Having posted a statement on her website immediately after the UK voted to leave the European Union arguing that the vote was a victory for those resisting austerity,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027965013|title=The original, pro-Brexit statement|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://independentpoliticalreport.com/2016/06/jill-stein-calls-britain-vote-a-wake-up-call/|title=Jill Stein calls Britain Vote a "Wake-up Call"|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://amthirdpartyreport.com/2016/06/24/jill-stein-calls-britain-vote-a-wake-up-call/|title=Jill Stein calls Britain Vote a "Wake-up Call"|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref><ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=http://www.forwardprogressives.com/green-party-jill-stein-busted-cover-up-praise-bigotry-driven-brexit/|title=Green Party Hero Jill Stein Busted Trying to Cover Up Her Praise of Bigotry-Driven Brexit|date=2016-06-27|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-30}}</ref><ref name=":18">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/210549/friends-dont-let-friends-vote-for-jill-stein|title=Friends Don't Let Friends Vote for Jill Stein|access-date=2016-08-15}}</ref> Stein later clarified her official statement, saying "Before the ] I agreed with ], ] and the ] who supported staying in the EU but working to fix it."<ref name=":8" /><ref name=":18" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jill2016.com/stein_calls_britain_vote_a_wake_up_call|title=Stein calls Britain Vote a Wake-up Call|access-date=2016-06-25}}</ref>


When asked in September 2016 whether she had a "position on whether a two-state solution is a better solution than a one-state solution", Stein answered by describing limitations of a two-state solution, specifically calling out the geographical fragmentation of Palestine, but that she is "not committing one way or the other at this point."<ref name=":9" />
In 2012, Stein favored maintaining current levels of international aid spending.<ref name=":10">{{Cite web|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/35775/jill-stein/#.V5jLJJOLSfQ|title=The Voter's Self Defense System|website=Project Vote Smart|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-27}}</ref>
==== Military spending and weapons use ====
Stein wishes to cut U.S. military spending by at least 50%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Homeland_Security.htm|title=Jill Stein on Homeland Security|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=June 9, 2016}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}


Stein wants to remove ] from foreign countries.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 30, 2016 |title=For Stein, climate change and erasing student debt are high-priority |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/stein-climate-change-student-debt |work=PBS}}</ref> Stein has been sharply critical of the use of drones, calling them a human rights violation and an "illegal assassination program" saying that they are "off target nine times out of ten."<ref name="Kuntzman">{{cite news |author=Gersh Kuntzman |title=Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein slams the system, law-breaking Obama, 'Frankenstein' Trump and 'corporate' Hillary Clinton |newspaper=New York Daily News |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/green-party-candidate-slams-obama-trump-clinton-article-1.2640149 |access-date=July 29, 2016}}</ref>
===Health ===
Stein is in favor of replacing the ] with a "Medicare-for-All" healthcare system<ref name=":10" /> and has said that it is an "illusion" that ] is a "step in the right direction" toward ].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Health_Care.htm|title=Jill Stein on Health Care|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=2016-06-09}}</ref> When asked in August 2016 whether she supported the ], Stein said she was not ready to endorse the plan, citing concerns about gaps and loopholes in the ballot measure.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.coloradoindependent.com/160913/jill-stein-coloradocare|title=In Colorado, Green Party’s Jill Stein won’t endorse the ColoradoCare universal healthcare ballot measure|date=2016-08-27|language=en-US|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref>


According to Stein, the United States should ] only when there is "good evidence that we are under imminent threat of actual attack".<ref name=":9" /> When asked by the '']'' editorial board whether that standard would have prevented US involvement in World War II, Stein answered, "I don't want to revisit history or try to reinterpret it, you know, but starting from where we are now, given the experience that we've had in the last, you know, since 2001, which has been an utter disaster, I don't think it's benefited us."<ref name=":9" /> Stein criticized the ], U.S.-led ] and U.S. involvement in the ], stating: "We are party to the war crimes that are being committed by ], who’s using cluster bombs made by us. And we’ve supplied $100 billion worth of weapons to the Saudis in the last decade...It’s against our own laws. The ] requires that we not sell weapons to human rights abusers."<ref name="slate">{{cite news |last=Pesca |first=Mike |date=October 19, 2016 |title=We Are on the Verge of a Nuclear War |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/10/jill-stein-thinks-nuclear-war-is-less-likely-under-trump.html |work=Slate}}</ref>
Stein has been critical of subsidizing unhealthy food products and of "agri-business" for its advertisements encouraging unhealthy eating. She has said that due to agri-business, Greeks no longer have the healthy diets they once did.<ref name=":17" />


===Science === ==== NATO ====
When asked whether the US should withdraw from all of its mutual defense treaties, Stein answered that the treaties need to "be looked at one by one", mentioning ] in particular.<ref name=":9" />
The peer-reviewed report Stein co-authored with ], ''In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development'',<ref name=JDBP/> received endorsements from six experts on public health at the Physicians for Social Responsibility website, praising the quality of the report.<ref>{{cite web|title=Scientists Endorse In Harm's Way|url=http://www.psr.org/chapters/boston/resources/scientists-endorse-in-harms-way-report.html|website=Physicians for Social Responsibility|accessdate=23 August 2016}}</ref> In the 2016 election, Stein has been criticized for adopting political positions based on what critics have called "out-of-the-]" views on science-related topics.<ref name=PoliticalEditorWatkins>{{cite news|last1=Watkins|first1=Eli|title=Anti-science claims dog Green Party's Jill Stein|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/jill-stein-vaccine-gmo-science/|accessdate=17 August 2016|publisher=CNN|date=17 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jill-steins-dangerous-anti-science-campaign_us_57a92f2ce4b02251db3ff3a8|title=Jill Stein's Dangerous Anti-Science Campaign|first=Chris|last=Sosa|publisher=The Huffington Post|date=August 9, 2016|accessdate=August 23, 2016}}</ref>


Stein accused NATO member ] of supporting ], saying that "we need to convince Turkey, our ally in theory, to close its border to the movement of jihadi militias across its border to reinforce ISIS."<ref name="slate" />
==== Homeopathy ====
Regarding ], Stein said in May 2016 that "just because something is untested doesn't mean it's safe", but argued that it is problematic that "agencies tied to big pharma and the chemical industry" test medicines.<ref name=":3" /> When asked in 2012 about the Green Party's health care platform (which supported homeopathy at that time), Stein said that the platform took "an admittedly simple position on a complex issue, and should be improved".<ref>, ]</ref>


==== Pesticides and GMOs ==== ==== Russo-Ukrainian War ====
In a July 2015 interview, Stein said that NATO "pursued a policy of basically encircling Russia—including the threat of nukes and drones and so on." She was asked whether the US should aid the Ukrainian government following the ], to which she responded by advocating for "establishing a neutral Ukraine that would allow Russia to not feel under attack". She said that the US "helped foment a coup against a democratically-elected government", contending that the post-revolution government contained "ultra-nationalists and ex-Nazis".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Foreign Policy |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Foreign_Policy.htm |access-date=June 9, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}
{{see also|Genetically modified food controversies|Alzheimer's disease#Cause}}
In ''Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging'', Stein concludes her section reviewing the literature on ] by saying: "any but not all studies find that acute high-dose and chronic lower-dose occupational exposures to some neurotoxic pesticides are linked to an increased risk of cognitive decline, dementia or Alzheimer's disease."<ref name="HealthyAging:chap7">{{cite web|url=http://action.psr.org/site/DocServer/chap7_0926.pdf?docID=5924|author="Jill Stein etal."|title=Environmental Factors in the Development of Dementia: Focus on Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Decline|in=Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging|accessdate=October 26, 2012}}</ref>


In October 2016, Stein characterized the conflict as "the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse, on steroids". She said that Russia had been "surrounded" with NATO assets.<ref name="slate" />
Stein and her coauthors wrote, "Twenty million American children five and under eat an average of eight pesticides every day through food consumption. Thirty-seven pesticides registered for use on foods are neurotoxic organophosphate insecticides, chemically related to more toxic nerve warfare agent developed earlier this century." They further noted the ubiquity of these pesticides in the home and at schools, citing Schettler ''et al.'' for the claim that "The trend is toward increasingly common exposures to organophosphates. For example, chlorpyrifos detections in urine increased more than tenfold from 1980 to 1990."<ref name="HarmsWay:chap7"/><ref>{{cite book|last1=Schettler etal.|title=Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262692472|page=225|url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/generations-risk}}</ref>


In a 2024 interview by ], Stein was asked whether she considers Vladimir Putin a "war criminal who should be on trial".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hasan |first=Mehdi |author-link=Mehdi Hasan |date=2024-09-19 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Mehdi Interviews Jill Stein |url=https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-mehdi-interviews-jill-stein |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=Zeteo |at=Timestamp 44:06 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=McHardy |first=Martha |date=2024-09-17 |title=Jill Stein's response to Putin being labeled 'war criminal' goes viral |url=https://www.newsweek.com/jill-stein-vladimir-putin-war-criminal-1954965 |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref> Hasan juxtaposed her past remarks regarding Putin, Bashar al-Assad and Benjamin Netanyahu, repeatedly asking Stein why there had been no remarks from her characterizing Putin or Assad as a war criminal. She referred to ], responding, "if you want to be an effective world leader, you don't start by name-calling and hurling epithets." She then claimed that there had been no decision by the ] regarding Putin.<ref name=":7" /> Three days later in response to the interview, Stein's Twitter account posted a statement describing Putin as a war criminal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ostiller |first=Nate |date=2024-09-20 |title=US Green Party candidate Stein calls Putin 'war criminal,' clarifying stance after controversial interview |url=https://kyivindependent.com/us-green-party-candidate-stein-calls-putin-war-criminal-clarifying-stance-after-controversial-interview/ |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=The Kyiv Independent |language=en}}</ref>
Stein supports ] labeling and a moratorium on new GMOs until they are proven safe, and would phase out GMO foods.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/jill-stein-vaccine-gmo-science/index.html|title=Anti-science claims dog Green Party's Jill Stein|last=CNN|first=Eli Watkins|website=CNN|access-date=2016-08-20}}</ref> Max Ehrenfreund in the ''Washington Post'' and Jordan Weissmann in ''Slate'' have written that Stein's position on GMOs contradicts extensive scientific study.<ref name="not:18">{{Cite web|first=Max|last=Ehrenfreund|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/02/what-jill-stein-the-green-presidential-candidate-wants-to-do-to-america/|title=What Jill Stein, the Green presidential candidate, wants to do to America|website=Washington Post|access-date=2016-08-03}}</ref><ref name=Weissmann/><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.agrobio.org/bfiles/fckimg/Nicolia%202013.pdf|title=An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research|first1=Alessandro|last1=Nicolia|first2=Alberto|last2=Manzo|first3=Fabio|last3=Veronesi|first4=Daniele|last4=Rosellini|journal=Critical Reviews in Biotechnology|date=2013|pages=1–12|doi=10.3109/07388551.2013.823595|quote="We have reviewed the scientific literature on GE crop safety for the last 10 years that catches the scientific consensus matured since GE plants became widely cultivated worldwide, and we can conclude that the scientific research conducted so far has not detected any significant hazard directly connected with the use of GM crops.<p>The literature about Biodiversity and the GE food/feed consumption has sometimes resulted in animated debate regarding the suitability of the experimental designs, the choice of the statistical methods or the public accessibility of data. Such debate, even if positive and part of the natural process of review by the scientific community, has frequently been distorted by the media and often used politically and inappropriately in anti-GE crops campaigns."}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/Y5160E/y5160e10.htm#P3_1651The|title=State of Food and Agriculture 2003–2004. Agricultural Biotechnology: Meeting the Needs of the Poor. Health and environmental impacts of transgenic crops|publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations|accessdate=February 8, 2016|quote="Currently available transgenic crops and foods derived from them have been judged safe to eat and the methods used to test their safety have been deemed appropriate. These conclusions represent the consensus of the scientific evidence surveyed by the ICSU (2003) and they are consistent with the views of the World Health Organization (WHO, 2002). These foods have been assessed for increased risks to human health by several national regulatory authorities (inter alia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, the United Kingdom and the United States) using their national food safety procedures (ICSU). To date no verifiable untoward toxic or nutritionally deleterious effects resulting from the consumption of foods derived from genetically modified crops have been discovered anywhere in the world (GM Science Review Panel). Many millions of people have consumed foods derived from GM plants - mainly maize, soybean and oilseed rape - without any observed adverse effects (ICSU)."}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://genetics.org/content/188/1/11.long|title=Plant Genetics, Sustainable Agriculture and Global Food Security|first=Pamela|last=Ronald|journal=Genetics|date=May 5, 2011|volume=188|pages=11–20|doi=10.1534/genetics.111.128553|quote="There is broad scientific consensus that genetically engineered crops currently on the market are safe to eat. After 14 years of cultivation and a cumulative total of 2 billion acres planted, no adverse health or environmental effects have resulted from commercialization of genetically engineered crops (Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Committee on Environmental Impacts Associated with Commercialization of Transgenic Plants, National Research Council and Division on Earth and Life Studies 2002). Both the U.S. National Research Council and the Joint Research Centre (the European Union's scientific and technical research laboratory and an integral part of the European Commission) have concluded that there is a comprehensive body of knowledge that adequately addresses the food safety issue of genetically engineered crops (Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health and National Research Council 2004; European Commission Joint Research Centre 2008). These and other recent reports conclude that the processes of genetic engineering and conventional breeding are no different in terms of unintended consequences to human health and the environment (European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation 2010)."}}</ref>


==== Spending on scientific research ==== ==== Middle East ====
On the eve of the 15-year anniversary of the ], Stein called for "a comprehensive and independent inquiry into the attacks," saying that the '']'' contained many "omissions and distortions."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Neidig |first=Harper |date=September 10, 2016 |title=Jill Stein calls for new 9/11 investigation |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/295266-stein-calls-for-new-9-11-investigation/ |newspaper=The Hill}}</ref> The next day, she said: "I think I would not have ] but would have captured him and brought him to trial."<ref>{{Cite web |author=Kathie Obradovich |date=September 12, 2016 |title=Jill Stein in Iowa: I would not have assassinated Osama bin Laden |url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/kathie-obradovich/2016/09/11/jill-stein-iowa-would-not-have-assassinated-osama-bin-laden/90205354/ |newspaper=Des Moines Register}}</ref>
In 2012, Stein wanted to "slightly decrease" spending on space exploration. She favored maintaining current levels of spending on scientific and medical research.<ref name=":10" />


Stein told CNN that she attended the conference to advocate for a ceasefire in the Middle East and to tell Russia to stop its military incursion in ].<ref>{{cite news |date=October 19, 2019 |title=Jill Stein slams Clinton's accusations |publisher=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/19/politics/jill-stein-responds-clinton-gabbard-russian-asset-cnntv/index.html}}</ref>
==== Vaccines ====
{{see also|Vaccine controversies}}
In an interview with the '']'', Stein stated that "]s have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases," and said that "here were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination schedule meant, the toxic substances like ] which used to be rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be addressed. I think some of them at least have been addressed. I don’t know if all of them have been addressed."<ref name=":14">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/|title=Jill Stein on vaccines: People have ‘real questions’|website=Washington Post|access-date=2016-07-29}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/30/jill-stein-green-party-vaccinations-anti-vaxxers|title=Green party candidate Jill Stein accused of 'anti-vaxxer' sympathies|last=Yuhas|first=Alan|date=2016-07-30|website=the Guardian|access-date=2016-07-30}}</ref> '']'' says that "research has shown schedule-related concerns about vaccines to be unfounded, and that delays to vaccines actually put children at greater risk. Anti-vaxx campaigners often claim that there are dangerous compounds in vaccines, though decades of safe vaccinations contradict the claim and no evidence shows that trace amounts that remain in some approved vaccines cause any harm to the body."<ref name=":15" /> {{under discussion inline|Overkill}}


==== Other views ====
In the ''Washington Post'' interview, Stein said that vaccines should be approved by a board that people can trust, and "people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration," or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ixbr5/i_am_jill_stein_green_party_candidate_for/d31ydoe?context=3|title=I am Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, AMA! • /r/IAmA|website=reddit|access-date=2016-06-09}}</ref><ref name=":14" /> According to The Guardian, eleven members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee are medical doctors who work at hospitals and universities, and two work at pharmaceutical companies, ] and ] US.<ref name=":15" /> In response, Stein said that "Monsanto lobbyists help run the day in those agencies and are in charge of approving what food isn’t safe".<ref name=":14" />
''' East Asia '''


Stein does not think the U.S. should become involved in ].<ref name=":1" />{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}
], scientist and contributor at '']'', described Stein's statements on vaccines as "using dog whistle terms and equivocations bound to appeal to the 'antivaccine' constituency".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/08/01/jill-stein-sort-of-answers-the-autism-vaccine-question/#7b6f3bd441a8|title=Jill Stein Sort Of Answers The Autism-Vaccine Question And No One Is Happy|last=Willingham|first=Emily|access-date=2016-08-01}}</ref> ], a professor at Yale who has studied public perception of science, says that it is dangerous for candidates to equivocate on vaccines, "Because the attitudes about vaccines are pretty much uniform across the political spectrum, it doesn’t seem like a great idea for any candidate to be anti-vaccine. The modal view is leave the freaking system alone."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/an-anti-vaxer-in-the-white-house/493916/|title=An Anti-Vaxer in the White House?|last=Meyer|first=Robinson|language=en-US|access-date=2016-08-02}}</ref>


''' Brexit '''
In response to a Twitter question about whether vaccines cause autism, Stein first answered, "there is no evidence that autism is caused by vaccines," then revised her tweet to "I'm not aware of evidence linking autism with vaccines."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gizmodo.com/jill-stein-deletes-tweet-that-says-theres-no-evidence-1784624949?rev=1470011982682|title=Jill Stein Deletes Tweet That Says "There's No Evidence That Autism Is Caused By Vaccines"|last=Peyser|first=Eve|language=en-US|access-date=2016-08-01}}</ref> In a later interview, Stein answered "no" to the question "do you think vaccines cause autism?",<ref name=":19">{{Citation|last=The Young Turks|title=Green Candidate Jill Stein Isn't Anti-Vaccine|date=2016-08-08|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNG3gDTPYjc|accessdate=2016-08-15}}</ref> She called this a "nonsense issue, meant to distract people" and likened it to ] used in previous presidential elections, citing the "] issue" or the "] issue,"<ref name=":19" /> pointing out that in her previous published work on autism and other child development issues,<ref name="HarmsWay:chap7" >{{cite web|url=http://action.psr.org/site/DocServer/chap7.pdf?docID=5128|author=Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility|title=Chapter 7: Chemicals, Regulations & the Environment|in=In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development|accessdate=24 Aug 2016}}</ref> no mention was made of vaccines.<ref name=":19" />


Immediately after the UK voted to leave the ] in June 2016, Stein came out in support of ]. Stein posted a celebratory statement on her website, saying the vote was "a victory for those who believe in the right of self-determination and who reject the pro-corporate, austerity policies of the political elites in the EU ... a rejection of the European political elite and their contempt for ordinary people."<ref name=":21">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-case-against-jill-stein-w436362|title=The Case Against Jill Stein|magazine=]|date=September 2016|access-date=September 2, 2016|archive-date=July 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730223809/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-case-against-jill-stein-w436362|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":18">{{Cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Yair |date=August 10, 2016 |title=Friends Don't Let Friends Vote for Jill Stein |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/210549/friends-dont-let-friends-vote-for-jill-stein |access-date=August 15, 2016 |publisher=Tablet}}</ref> She later changed the statement (without indicating so), removing words like "victory" and adding the line, "Before the ] I agreed with ], ] and the ] who supported staying in the EU but working to fix it."<ref name=":21" /><ref name=":18" /><ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=http://www.forwardprogressives.com/green-party-jill-stein-busted-cover-up-praise-bigotry-driven-brexit/|title=Green Party Hero Jill Stein Busted Trying to Cover Up Her Praise of Bigotry-Driven Brexit|date=June 27, 2016|language=en-US|access-date=June 30, 2016}}</ref>
==== Wi-Fi ====
In a question-and-answer session, Stein voiced concern about ] in schools, saying, "We should not subjecting kid’s brains especially to that... and we don’t follow this issue in our country, but in Europe where they do, you know, they have good precautions about wireless. Maybe not good enough, you know. It’s very hard to study this stuff. You know, we make guinea pigs out of whole populations and then we discover how many die."<ref name=PoliticalEditorWatkins/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2016/08/jill-stein-thinks-wi-fi-could-be-dangerous-for-our-brains/|title=Jill Stein thinks Wi-Fi could be dangerous for our brains|access-date=2016-08-01}}</ref><ref name=":20">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/jill-stein-vaccine-gmo-science/index.html|title=Anti-science claims dog Green Party's Jill Stein|last=CNN|first=Eli Watkins|website=CNN|access-date=2016-08-17}}</ref> According to the ], "no adverse health effects are expected from exposure to ".<ref name=":20" />{{under discussion inline|Overkill}}


''' Cuba '''
===Truth and Reconciliation Commission===
On ] in 2016, Stein called for ] for slavery.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/jill-stein-third-party-bernie-sanders/493292/?utm_source=nl-politics-daily-072816 |title=Can Jill Stein Lead a Revolution? |publisher='']'' |first=Clare |last=Foran |date=28 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729010627/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/jill-stein-third-party-bernie-sanders/493292/?utm_source=nl-politics-daily-072816 |archive-date=28 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jill2016.com/stein_observes_juneteenth_with_a_call_for_racial_justice_and_reparations_for_slavery |title=Stein Observes Juneteenth with a Call for Racial Justice and Reparations for Slavery |publisher=Jill 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160622231042/http://www.jill2016.com/stein_observes_juneteenth_with_a_call_for_racial_justice_and_reparations_for_slavery |archive-date=June 22, 2016}}</ref> In accepting the nomination of the Green party, she reiterated this support, saying that the Greens "call for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to get to the bottom of the crisis of racism, and to provide reparations to acknowledge the enormous debt owed to the African American community for the unimaginable price they paid in building this country and sustaining our economy for generations while they were denied dignity and freedom."<ref name="nominationSpeech">{{cite news |url=http://www.jill2016.com/transcript_jill_stein_accepts_the_green_party_nomination|title=Transcript: Jill Stein Accepts the Green Party Nomination |publisher=Jill 2016 |date=6 Aug 2016}}</ref>


After the death of Cuban former communist leader ], Stein tweeted that "Fidel Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Meyer|first=Ken|date=November 27, 2016|title=Jill Stein Gets Predictable Backlash After Calling Castro a 'Symbol of the Struggle for Justice'|url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/jill-stein-gets-predictable-backlash-after-calling-castro-a-symbol-of-the-struggle-for-justice/|journal=Mediaite|language=en}}</ref>
===Whistleblowers and political prisoners===

In her acceptance speech for the Green Party nomination, she called for "end the war on whistleblowers, and free the political prisoners ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]" <ref name="nominationSpeech" /> She said that she would have Snowden in her ] if elected.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wmnf.org/jill-stein-says-edward-snowden-cabinet-becomes-president/|title=Jill Stein says Edward Snowden would be in her cabinet if she becomes president - WMNF|date=2016-07-13|website=WMNF|language=en-US|access-date=2016-07-14}}</ref> In an op-ed on the subject of ], Stein argued that Assange was doing what journalists should be doing but are not, and added that whistle-blowers have been increasingly subject to "character assassination" and prosecution during the Obama administration. In her view, it is heroic to resist the media and political elite's control of information.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/292305-exclusive-jill-stein-op-ed-in-praise-of-wikileaks|title=EXCLUSIVE Jill Stein op-ed: In praise of WikiLeaks|last=Rehkopf|first=Bill|date=2016-08-23|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref>
=== Public health and views towards vaccines ===
Stein is in favor of replacing the ] (Obamacare) with a "Medicare for All" healthcare system<ref name=":10" />{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}} and has said that it is an "illusion" that the former is a "step in the right direction" toward ].<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Health Care |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Health_Care.htm |access-date=June 9, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Stein has been critical of subsidizing unhealthy food products and of "agri-business" for its advertisements encouraging unhealthy eating. She has said that due to agri-business, Greeks no longer have the healthy diets they once did.<ref name=":17" />{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

''' GMOs and pesticides '''

Stein supports ] labeling, a moratorium on new GMOs, and the phasing out of existing GMO foods, unless independent research "shows decisively that GMOs are not harmful to human health or ecosystems".<ref name="Watkins">{{Cite web |author=Eli Watkins |date=August 16, 2016 |title=Anti-science claims dog Green Party's Jill Stein |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/jill-stein-vaccine-gmo-science/index.html |access-date=August 20, 2016 |website=CNN}}</ref> Speaking of the health effects of foods derived from GM crops, she has said: "And I can tell you as a physician with special interest and long history in environmental health, the quality of studies that we have are not what you need. We should have a moratorium until they are proven safe, and they have not been proven safe in the way that they are used."<ref name="Watkins" />

Commentators have criticized Stein's statements about GMOs, writing that they contradict the ], which is that existing GM foods are no less safe than foods made from conventional crops.<ref name="GMO_critics">* {{cite news |last=Sosa |first=Chris |date=August 9, 2016 |title=Jill Stein's Dangerous Anti-Science Campaign |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jill-steins-dangerous-anti-science-campaign_us_57a92f2ce4b02251db3ff3a8 |access-date=August 23, 2016}}
* {{Cite news |last=Ehrenfreund |first=Max |title=What Jill Stein, the Green presidential candidate, wants to do to America |newspaper=] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/02/what-jill-stein-the-green-presidential-candidate-wants-to-do-to-america/|date=August 2, 2016 |access-date=August 3, 2016}}
* {{Cite news |last=Corneliussen |first=Steven T. |date=August 18, 2016 |title=Media coverage thin for presidential candidates' science awareness and views |journal=Physics Today |issue=8 |doi=10.1063/PT.5.8185}}
* {{Cite news |last=Uscinski |first=Joseph |date=August 22, 2016 |title=The 5 Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theories of 2016 |publisher=Politico |url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/conspiracy-theories-2016-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-214183 |access-date=August 31, 2016}}
* {{Cite news |last=Stilgoe |first=Jack |date=August 17, 2016 |title=How to think about the risks of mobile phones and Wi-Fi |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/aug/17/how-to-think-about-the-risks-of-mobile-phones-and-wi-fi |access-date=August 31, 2016}}
* {{Cite news |last=McGuire |first=Kim |date=August 5, 2016 |title=Tough sell in Texas: climate change, GMOs top Green Party platform |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/us/article/Tough-sell-in-Texas-climate-change-GMOs-top-9125759.php |access-date=August 31, 2016}}
* {{Cite news |last=D'Ammassa |first=Algernon |date=August 7, 2016 |title=Greens, Libertarians need to be ready for media glare |newspaper=USA Today/Las Cruces Sun-News |url=http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/2016/08/07/greens-libertarians-need-ready-media-glare/88377756/ |access-date=August 31, 2016}}</ref> Among the critics was Jordan Weissmann, ''Slate''<nowiki/>'s business and economics editor, who wrote in July 2016: "Never mind that scientists have studied GMOs extensively and found no signs of danger to human health—Stein would like medical researchers to prove a negative."<ref name="Weissmann" />

''' Vaccinations and regulations '''

In response to a Twitter question about whether vaccines cause ], Stein first answered, "there is no evidence that autism is caused by vaccines," then revised her tweet to "I'm not aware of evidence linking autism with vaccines."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peyser |first=Eve |date=August 2016 |title=Jill Stein Deletes Tweet That Says "There's No Evidence That Autism Is Caused By Vaccines" |url=https://gizmodo.com/jill-stein-deletes-tweet-that-says-theres-no-evidence-1784624949?rev=1470011982682 |access-date=August 1, 2016 |website=Gizmodo |language=en-US}}</ref>

], a professor at ] who has studied public perception of science, says that it is dangerous for candidates to equivocate on vaccines, "Because the attitudes about vaccines are pretty much uniform across the political spectrum, it doesn't seem like a great idea for any candidate to be anti-vaccine. The modal view is leave the freaking system alone."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Meyer |first=Robinson |date=August 2016 |title=An Anti-Vaxer in the White House? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/an-anti-vaxer-in-the-white-house/493916/ |access-date=August 2, 2016 |website=] |language=en-US}}</ref> ], scientist and contributor at '']'', described Stein's statements on vaccines as "using dog whistle terms and equivocations bound to appeal to the 'antivaccine' constituency".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Willingham|first=Emily |title=Jill Stein Sort Of Answers The Autism-Vaccine Question And No One Is Happy |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/08/01/jill-stein-sort-of-answers-the-autism-vaccine-question/#7b6f3bd441a8|date=August 1, 2016 |access-date=August 1, 2016 |website=]}}</ref>

In an interview with '']'', Stein stated that "]s have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases," and said that "here were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination schedule meant, the toxic substances like ] which used to be rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be addressed. I think some of them at least have been addressed. I don't know if all of them have been addressed."<ref name=":14">{{Cite news |title=Jill Stein on vaccines: People have 'real questions' |newspaper=] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/|date=July 29, 2016 |access-date=July 29, 2016}}</ref><ref name=":15">{{Cite web |last=Yuhas |first=Alan |date=July 30, 2016 |title=Green party candidate Jill Stein accused of 'anti-vaxxer' sympathies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/30/jill-stein-green-party-vaccinations-anti-vaxxers |access-date=July 30, 2016 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>

In July 2018 ''Washington Post'' interview, Stein said that vaccines should be approved by a board that people can trust, and "people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration," or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence." According to '']'', eleven members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee are medical doctors who work at hospitals and universities, and two work at pharmaceutical companies, ] and ] US. In response, Stein said that "] lobbyists help run the day in those agencies and are in charge of approving what food isn't safe".<ref name=":14" /><ref name=":15" />

=== Race relations ===

''' Black Americans '''

Stein has deplored what she and others identify as the ] of the U.S. judicial and prison system. On ] in 2016, Stein called for ].<ref name="tap1">{{cite magazine |last=Foran |first=Clare |date=July 28, 2016 |title=Can Jill Stein Lead a Revolution? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/jill-stein-third-party-bernie-sanders/493292/ |magazine=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729010627/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/jill-stein-third-party-bernie-sanders/493292/ |archive-date=July 29, 2016}}</ref>

''' Native Americans '''

Stein has supported the ]'s opposition to the ], and in September 2016 joined protesters in North Dakota. In 2016, both Stein and her running mate, ], faced misdemeanor criminal charges for spray-painting bulldozers at the construction site of the pipeline with "I approve this message" and "decolonization" respectively.<ref>Regina Garcia Cano, {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911021527/http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/06976b3e77ae4e8c931e3757fb0a453f/green-party-candidate-faces-charges-graffiti-protest|date=September 11, 2016}}, Associated Press (September 8, 2016).</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Jonah|last=Bromwich|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/politics/jill-stein-green-party-candidate-is-charged-over-role-in-protest.html|title=Jill Stein, Green Party Candidate, Is Charged Over Role in Pipeline Protest|newspaper=The New York Times'|date=September 7, 2016}}</ref>

=== Space exploration ===
In 2012, Vote Smart reported that Stein wanted to "slightly decrease" spending on space exploration. She favored maintaining current levels of spending on scientific and medical research. In 2016, Stein said NASA funding should be increased, arguing that by halving the military budget, more money could be directed towards "exploring space instead of destroying planet Earth."<ref name=":10" />{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

=== Whistleblowers ===
In her 2016 acceptance speech for the Green Party nomination, she called for "end the war on whistleblowers, and free the political prisoners ... ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]".<ref name="nominationSpeech">{{cite news |date=August 6, 2016 |title=Transcript: Jill Stein Accepts the Green Party Nomination |url=http://www.jill2016.com/transcript_jill_stein_accepts_the_green_party_nomination |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811194847/http://www.jill2016.com/transcript_jill_stein_accepts_the_green_party_nomination |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 11, 2016 |publisher=Jill 2016}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (]).|date=September 2024}} She said that she would have Snowden in her ] if elected.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wmnf.org/jill-stein-says-edward-snowden-cabinet-becomes-president/|title=Jill Stein says Edward Snowden would be in her cabinet if she becomes president – WMNF|date=July 13, 2016 |website=WMNF|language=en-US|access-date=July 14, 2016}}</ref> In an op-ed on the subject of ], Stein argued that Assange was doing what other journalists should be doing but are not, and added that whistleblowers have been increasingly subject to "character assassination" and prosecution during the Obama administration.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stein |first=Jill |date=August 23, 2016 |title=Opinion: In praise of WikiLeaks |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/292305-exclusive-jill-stein-op-ed-in-praise-of-wikileaks/ |access-date=August 27, 2016 |website=The Hill}}</ref>

== Electoral history ==

=== 2004 9th Middlesex District ===
In 2004, Stein ran for state representative for the 9th Middlesex District, which included portions of Waltham and Lexington. She received 3,911 votes (21.3%) in a three-way race, ahead of the Republican candidate but far behind Democratic incumbent ].<ref>{{cite web |title=2004 State Representative General Election: 9th Middlesex District |url=http://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/21697/ |access-date=February 2, 2019 |publisher=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts}}</ref>

=== 2005 Lexington Town Meeting ===
In 2005, Stein set her sights locally, running for the Lexington ], a ], the local legislative body in ]. Stein was elected to one of seven seats in Precinct 2.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jill E. Stein's Biography Candidate Details |url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/35775/jill-stein |access-date=July 16, 2012 |publisher=votesmart.org}}</ref> She finished first of 16 candidates, receiving 539 votes (20.6%). Stein was reelected in 2008, finishing second of 13 vying for eight seats.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 3, 2008 |title=Green Party of the United States &#124; Candidate Details |url=http://gp.org/elections/candidates/details.php?record=3840 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919014920/http://www.gp.org/elections/candidates/details.php?record=3840 |archive-date=September 19, 2012 |access-date=July 16, 2012 |publisher=GP.org}}</ref> Stein resigned during her second term to again run for governor.<ref name="CandidatePage">{{cite news |title=Candidate: Jill Stein Green Party nominee |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/candidates/stein |access-date=August 29, 2016 |newspaper=]}}</ref>

=== 2002 Governor of Massachusetts ===
Stein ran as the ] candidate in the ] with Tony Lorenzen as running mate. She obtained 76,530 votes (3.5%).<ref>{{cite web |title=2002 Governor General Election |url=http://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/19968/ |access-date=February 2, 2019 |publisher=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts}}</ref>{{Election box begin
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|percentage = 1.04%
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|percentage = 0.69%
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=== 2006 Secretary of the Commonwealth ===
At the ] state ] on March 4, 2006, Stein was nominated for ]. In a two-way race with the three-term incumbent, Democrat ], she received 353,551 votes (17.7%).<ref>{{cite web |title=2006 Secretary of the Commonwealth General Election |url=http://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/12970/ |access-date=February 2, 2019 |publisher=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts}}</ref>{{Election box begin
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=== 2010 Governor of Massachusetts ===
]]]On February 8, 2010, Stein announced her second ].<ref>
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=== 2012 President of the United States ===
Stein received 469,015 votes (0.36%), the largest number of votes any woman presidential candidate had received up to that point.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Matthias|first= Meg|title=Green Party of the United States|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|date=August 23, 2024|url= https://www.britannica.com/topic/Green-Party-of-the-United-States|access-date=September 4, 2024}}</ref><ref name="uselectionatlas.org">, ''Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections'' accessed November 19, 2012</ref> She received 1% or more of the vote in three states: Maine (1.1%), Oregon (1.1%), and Alaska (1.0%).{{Election box begin no change|title=]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.270towin.com/2012_Election/|title= 2012 Presidential Election|website= 270towin|accessdate= September 14, 2024}}</ref>}}
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=== 2016 President of the United States ===
Stein received 1% of the national popular vote in the election.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Larry J. Sabato |author-link=Larry J. Sabato |author2=Kyle Kondik |author3=Geoffrey Skelley |date=November 17, 2016 |title=16 For '16: Bite-sized observations on a wild election |url=http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/16-for-16/ |access-date=November 17, 2016 |work=Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball |publisher=]}}</ref> She finished in 4th place with over 1,457,216 votes (more than the previous three Green tickets combined) and 1.07% of the popular vote.
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| 706,318
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| align=left|'''Jill Stein''' / ]<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/dr-jill-stein-announces-butch-ware-as-vp-running-mate-2024-presidential-election-politics-jewish-woman-black-muslim-man-joe-biden-kamala-harris-tim-walz-donald-trump-jd-vance-systemic-injustice-genocide-war-inflation-economy|title= Dr. Jill Stein announces Butch Ware as VP running mate|website= NBC Montana|date= August 16, 2024|accessdate= September 14, 2024}}</ref>
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==Personal life==
Stein is married to Richard Rohrer, who is also a physician. They live in ], and have two sons.<ref name="boston.com">{{cite web |title=Interview: Jill Stein (G-R) Candidate for Governor |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/governor/jill_stein/ |access-date=May 31, 2016 |website=Boston.com}}</ref><ref name="ttchedu1">{{cite news |url=http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2002/10/2/governor-candidates-bicker-in-debate-republican/?print=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210074805/http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2002/10/2/governor-candidates-bicker-in-debate-republican/?print=1 |url-status=dead|archive-date=December 10, 2012 |title=Governor Candidates Bicker in Debate |date=October 2, 2002 |access-date=July 14, 2012 |last=Hirsch |first=David S. |newspaper=] }}</ref><ref name="nyt1">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/us/politics/jill-stein-green-party-candidate-and-the-chances-of-making-a-difference.html |title=Party Strains to Be Heard Now That Its Voice Isn't Nader's |date=July 12, 2012|access-date=July 14, 2012 |last=Saulny |first=Susan |newspaper=] |page=A10}}</ref>

In the 1990s, Stein sang in a ] duo called Somebody's Sister, alongside Ken Selcer. They released three albums: ''Somebody's Sister'' in 1995, ''Green Skies'' in 1997 and ''Circuits to the Sun'' in 1999.<ref name="g959">{{cite web | last=Holmes | first=Dave | title=Green Party Presidential Hopeful Jill Stein Had a Folk-Rock Duo in the '90s | website=Esquire | date=2016-08-04 | url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a47338/jill-stein-somebodys-sister-90s-folk-rock/ | access-date=2024-08-21}}</ref><ref name="j102">{{cite web | last=Romm | first=Jake | title=When Jill Stein Was in a Really Bad Folk Band Called Somebody's Sister | website=The Forward | date=2016-11-30 | url=https://forward.com/culture/355467/when-jill-stein-was-in-a-really-bad-folk-band-called-somebodys-sister/ | access-date=2024-08-21}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 08:21, 25 December 2024

American politician and physician (born 1950) This article is about the physician and Green Party activist. For the British restaurateur, see Jill Stein (restaurateur).

Jill Stein
Stein in 2024
Member of the Lexington Town Meeting
from the 2nd Precinct
In office
2005–2010
Personal details
BornJill Ellen Stein
(1950-05-14) May 14, 1950 (age 74)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political partyGreen (2002–present)
Other political
affiliations
Democratic (1968–2002)
SpouseRichard Rohrer
Children2
EducationHarvard University (BA, MD)
Signature
WebsiteCampaign website

Jill Ellen Stein (born May 14, 1950) is an American physician and activist who was the Green Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2012, 2016, and 2024 elections. She was the Green-Rainbow Party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010.

As a practicing physician, Stein advocated for improving air quality standards for coal plants. She ran her first political campaign as the Green-Rainbow candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, losing to Republican Mitt Romney. She ran for the same position in 2010, losing to the then-incumbent Massachusetts governor, Democrat Deval Patrick.

Stein first ran for president of the United States in 2012, selecting Cheri Honkala as her running mate. They lost to the Democratic ticket of incumbent President Barack Obama and incumbent Vice President Joe Biden. She ran for the second time for president in 2016 with running mate Ajamu Baraka against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump, the latter of whom won the election. In 2017, Stein's presidential campaign was investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee for possible collusion with the Russian government but was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing.

She ran a third time in the 2024 election against former President Trump and Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris on a campaign focused on an anti-war stance, universal healthcare, free public education, an eco-socialist "real Green New Deal", and strong worker rights. Her vice presidential running mate was Butch Ware. Stein is among the list of several women who have run for president of the United States and also one of the few who received more than a million votes in the general election, behind Hillary Clinton, Jo Jorgensen, and Kamala Harris.

Early life and education

This article is part of a series about
Jill Stein

Massachusetts campaigns
Presidential campaigns
Political party affiliations

Stein was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in nearby Highland Park, Illinois. Stein was raised in a Reform Jewish household, attending Chicago's North Shore Congregation Israel.

In 1973, Stein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where she studied psychology, sociology, and anthropology. She then attended Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1979. Stein practiced medicine in the Boston area for 25 years. She also served as an instructor in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Early activism and political career

Stein in 2009 at a protest against coal-powered energy production

As a physician, Stein became increasingly concerned about the connection between people's health and the quality of their local environment. She subsequently turned to activism. In 1998, she began protesting the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts.

The Clean Election Law provided public funding for candidates not receiving large private donations, and was eventually repealed in 2003 by the Democratic party controlled state legislature. Stein has said that she left the Democratic Party and joined the Green Party when "the Democratic Party killed campaign finance reform in my state".

In a 2024 interview with Haaretz, Stein said the Green Party was an alternative to the "rigid two-party system both parties are widely regarded as sponsored by and serving the economic elites, and share their core interests. They're both parties of war and of Wall Street. They may differ on social issues, but on core policies they're very much the same".

On January 20, Stein is expected to speak at a rally convened by The People's Forum, Palestinian Youth Movement, and A.N.S.W.E.R. alongside other keynote speakers such as fellow 2024 presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz and actress Rowan Blanchard.

Political campaigns

2012 Presidential campaign

Primary

Main article: Jill Stein 2012 presidential campaign
Jill Stein speaking at Occupy Wall Street, September 27, 2011

Stein launched her campaign in October 2011.

In December 2011, Ben Manski, a Wisconsin Green Party leader, was announced as Stein's campaign manager. Her major primary opponents were actress Roseanne Barr and activist Kent Mesplay. Stein proposed the Green New Deal, a government spending plan intended to put 25 million people to work. Mesplay called that unrealistic, saying, "This will take time to implement, and lacks legislative support." Stein became the presumptive Green Party nominee after winning two-thirds of California's delegates in June 2012. On July 1, 2012, the Stein campaign reported it had received enough contributions to qualify for primary season federal matching funds. This made Stein the first Green Party presidential candidate ever to have qualified for federal matching funds. On July 11, Stein selected Cheri Honkala, an anti-poverty activist, as her vice-presidential running mate. On July 14, she officially received the Green Party's nomination at its convention in Baltimore.

General

On August 1, Stein, Honkala and three others were arrested during a sit-in at a Philadelphia bank to protest housing foreclosures on behalf of several city residents struggling to keep their homes. On October 16, Stein and Honkala were arrested after they tried to enter the site of the presidential debate at Hofstra University while protesting the exclusion of smaller political parties, such as the Green Party, from the debates. Stein likened her arrest to the persecution of dissident Sergei Udaltsov in Russia. On October 31, Stein was arrested in Texas for criminal trespass, after trying to deliver food and supplies to environmental activists of Tar Sands Blockade camped out in trees protesting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The Free & Equal Elections Foundation hosted a third-party debate with Stein and three other candidates on October 19, followed by a debate between Stein and Gary Johnson held on November 5.

2016 Presidential campaign

Primary

Main article: Jill Stein 2016 presidential campaign
Jill Stein's presidential campaign logo, 2016
Stein with Jon Wiener, The Nation writer and host of the political podcast Start Making Sense in 2016

On February 6, 2015, Stein announced the formation of an exploratory committee in preparation for a potential campaign for the Green Party's presidential nomination in 2016. On June 22, she formally announced her candidacy in a live interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! After former Ohio state senator Nina Turner reportedly declined to be her running mate, Stein chose human rights activist Ajamu Baraka on August 1, 2016.

Stein stated during the 2016 campaign that the Democratic and Republican parties are "two corporate parties" that have converged into one. Concerned by the rise of neofascism internationally and the rise of neoliberalism within the Democratic Party, she has said, "The answer to neofascism is stopping neoliberalism. Putting another Clinton in the White House will fan the flames of this right-wing extremism. We have known that for a long time, ever since Nazi Germany." In August 2016, Stein released the first two pages of her 2015 tax return on her website.

Stein's financial disclosure, filed in March 2016, indicated that she maintained investments of as much as $8.5 million, including mutual or index funds that included holdings in industries that she had previously criticized, such as energy, financial, pharmaceutical, tobacco, and defense contractors. In response to questions about her finances, Stein said in part: "Sadly, most of these broad investments are as compromised as the American economy—degraded as it is by the fossil fuel, defense and finance industries", and later characterized the article as a "smear attack" against her.

On September 7, 2016, a North Dakota judge issued a warrant for Stein's arrest for spray-painting a bulldozer during a protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Stein was charged in Morton County with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief. Her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, received the same charges. After the warrant was issued, Stein said that she would cooperate with the North Dakota authorities and arrange a court date. She defended her actions, saying that it would have been "inappropriate for me not to have done my small part" to support the Standing Rock Sioux. In August 2017, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief and was placed on probation for six months.

General

Stein said in an interview with Politico that: "Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, won't ... Hillary has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his."

In the same interview, Stein said regarding Trump's business dealings and refusal to release his tax returns: "At least with Clinton, you know, there was some degree of transparency, but what's going on with Trump, you can't even get at, and what he said was that even to clarify 15 out of these 500 deals, these are just like the most frightening mafiosos around the world. He's like—he's a magnet for crime and extortion."

Stein's highest polling average in four candidate polls was in late June 2016, when she polled at 4.8% nationally before ending at 1.9% nationally on the eve of election day. Her polling numbers gradually slipped throughout the campaign, consistent with historical trends for minor party candidates.

Stein played a significant role in several crucial battleground states, drawing a vote total in three of them—Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania—that exceeded the margin between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Recount fundraising

Main article: 2016 United States presidential election recounts

In November 2016, a group of computer scientists and election lawyers including J. Alex Halderman and John Bonifaz (founder of the National Voting Rights Institute) expressed concerns about the integrity of the presidential election results. They wanted a full audit or recount of the presidential election votes in three states key to Donald Trump's electoral college win—Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania—but needed a candidate on the presidential ballot to file the petition to state authorities. After unsuccessfully lobbying Hillary Clinton and her team, the group approached Stein and she agreed to spearhead the recount effort.

A crowdfunding campaign launched on November 24, 2016, to support the costs of the recount, raised more than $2.5 million in under 24 hours, and $6.7 million in nearly a week. On November 25, 2016, with 90 minutes remaining on the deadline to petition for a recount to Wisconsin's electoral body, Stein filed for a recount of its presidential election results. She signaled she intended to file for similar recounts in the subsequent days in Michigan and Pennsylvania. President-elect Donald Trump issued a statement denouncing the recount request saying, "The people have spoken and the election is over." Trump further commented that the recount "is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded."

On December 2, 2016, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed a lawsuit to stop Stein's recount. On the same day in Wisconsin a U.S. District Judge denied an emergency halt to the recount, allowing it to continue until a December 9, 2016, hearing. On December 3, 2016, Stein dropped the state recount case in Pennsylvania, citing "the barriers to verifying the vote in Pennsylvania are so pervasive and that the state court system is so ill-equipped to address this problem that we must seek federal court intervention."

Shortly after midnight on December 5, 2016, U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith ordered Michigan election officials to hand-recount 4.8 million ballots, rejecting all concerns for the cost of the recount. Goldsmith wrote in his order: "As emphasized earlier, budgetary concerns are not sufficiently significant to risk the disenfranchisement of Michigan's nearly 5 million voters". Meanwhile, however, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that Stein, who placed fourth, had no chance of winning and was not an "aggrieved candidate" and ordered the Michigan election board to reject her petition for a recount. On December 7, 2016, Judge Goldsmith halted the Michigan recount. Stein filed an appeal with the Michigan Supreme Court, losing her appeal in a 3–2 decision on December 9, 2016.

On December 12, 2016, U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond rejected Stein's request for a Pennsylvania recount.

In May 2018, The Daily Beast reported that approximately $1 million of the original $7.3 million had yet to be spent and that there remained uncertainty about what precisely the money had been spent on.

Election interference investigation

On December 18, 2017, The Washington Post reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee was looking at Stein's presidential campaign for potential "collusion with the Russians." The Stein campaign released a statement stating it would work with investigators. The Committee cleared Stein of any collusion with Russia.

In December 2018, two reports commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee found that the Russian-linked Internet Research Agency boosted and promoted Stein's candidacy through social media posts, targeting African-American voters in particular. After consulting the two reports, NBC News reporter Robert Windrem said that nothing suggested Stein knew about the operation. It also highlighted several independent analyses that "add to the growing body of evidence that the Russians worked to boost the Stein campaign as part of the effort to siphon support away from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and tilt the election to Trump." Stein was also criticized for sitting at the same table as Russian president Vladimir Putin at the RT 10th anniversary gala in Moscow. Stein said she had attended the event in the hope of speaking to Putin about his policy in Syria, climate change and other issues. Stein, who has regularly appeared on RT and Sputnik during her 2012 and 2016 campaigns, announced her decision to form an exploratory committee to run in 2016 during the U.S.-based RT program "Redacted Tonight" in February 2015. NBC said there was no evidence in the reports to indicate that Stein was aware any influence operation. NBC stated that Stein had been criticised for "her support of international policies that mirror Russian foreign policy goals." Stein regularly appeared on RT.

In an official statement, Stein called one of the reports, the one authored by New Knowledge, "dangerous new McCarthyism" and asked the Senate Committee to retract it, saying the firm was "sponsored by partisan Democratic funders" and had itself been shown to have been "directly involved in election interference" in the 2017 US Senate election in Alabama.

By July 31, 2018, Stein had spent slightly under $100,000 of the recount money on legal representation linked to the Senate probe into election interference. In March 2019, Stein's spokesman David Cobb said she had "fully cooperated with the Senate inquiry."

2024 Presidential campaign

Main article: Jill Stein 2024 presidential campaign

Primary

Jill Stein's presidential campaign logo, 2024

Stein originally supported activist and scholar Cornel West's 2024 presidential campaign under the Green Party and became his campaign manager. After West withdrew his bid for the Green presidential nomination in order to instead continue his run for the presidency as an independent, Stein retracted her endorsement for West and said the Green Party would find a nominee elsewhere. She also hinted at a possible bid of her own.

On November 9, 2023, Stein announced her third bid for president. Having also run in 2016, Stein was described by Robert Tait as having the potential to erode Joe Biden's support in the general election among left-wing voters.

When announcing her candidacy, Stein described the two-party political system as "broken." She called for prioritizing a "pro-worker, anti-war, climate emergency agenda" in the upcoming election, aiming to bring these issues to the forefront of national discourse.

Stein has also been an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Following the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, she condemned Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip and criticized President Joe Biden for what she described as a failure to intervene against what she termed Israel's "genocidal rampage." Jill Stein's campaign platform advocates for what they describe as a comprehensive approach to addressing social and economic inequality through the establishment of an Economic Bill of Rights. This includes the rights to a living wage, housing, healthcare, childcare, education, retirement, healthy food, and clean water.

General election

The 2024 campaign, like Stein's 2016 campaign, was described by some as a possible spoiler campaign, which may benefit Donald Trump. Stein said "Candidates have to earn your vote, they don’t own your vote."

In September 2024, Congresswoman 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.'" Stein responded that Green candidates had won "1400 elections" and that the Democratic Party had worked to exclude third-party candidates from ballots and presidential debates. Peter Rothpletz in The New Republic criticized Stein for the decline in Green party membership from 319,000 in 2004 to 234,000 in 2024 and for arguing in a 2016 interview that Hillary Clinton was a greater threat than Donald Trump. Rothpletz also referred to criticism of Stein by members of the Democratic Party that she defended members of the African People's Socialist Party, who were indicted for being part of a "malign influence campaign" on behalf of the Russian government, and that she did not know how many members were in the House of Representatives.

Political positions

Economy and infrastructure

In her 2024 presidential campaign announcement video, Stein proposed an "economic bill of rights" that regard employment, health care, housing, food and education as rights.

In 2015, Stein was critical of official employment numbers, saying that unemployment figures were "designed to essentially cover up unemployment," and that the real unemployment rate for that year was around 12–13%.

Financial reform and banking regulation

Stein called the Wall Street bailout wasteful. In 2012, Stein opposed the raising of the debt ceiling, saying that the U.S. should instead raise taxes on the wealthy and make military spending cuts to offset the debt.

In 2016, Stein said that she supported a new 0.5% financial transactions tax on the sale of stocks, bonds, and derivatives, and an increase in the estate tax to "at least" 55% on inheritances over $3 million.

During her 2012 and 2016 presidential runs, Stein called for "nationalizing" and "democratiz" the Federal Reserve, placing it under a Federal Monetary Authority in the Treasury Department and ending its independence.

She supported the creation of nonprofit publicly owned banks, pledging to create such entities at the federal and state levels.

Education

Stein opposes charter schools and has been critical of the Common Core, saying that teachers rather than "corporate contractors" should be responsible for education.

Health effects of Wi-Fi

See also: Electromagnetic radiation and health

In a question-and-answer session, Stein voiced concern about wireless internet (Wi-Fi) in schools, saying, "We should not be subjecting kids' brains especially to that ... We don't follow that issue in this country, but in Europe, where they do, they have good precautions around wireless, maybe not good enough." Stein later said, "we should listen to what scientific experts are saying and take precautions about how much we expose young children to WiFi and cellphones until we know more about the long-term health effects of this type of low-level radiation."

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times editorial board, Stein clarified that her statements on Wi-Fi were "not a policy statement" and that attention to her statement on Wi-Fi was "a sign of a gotcha political system".

Debt forgiveness

Stein favors canceling all student loan debt, saying that it could be done using quantitative easing, similar to the Wall Street bailout, without raising taxes. In this plan, the Federal Reserve could buy up student loans and agree not to collect the debt, thereby effectively canceling it.

Electoral reform

Stein is critical of the two-party system, and argues for ranked-choice voting as a favorable alternative to "lesser evilism". Stein has advocated for campaign finance reform.

Energy and environment

Stein says that climate change is a "national emergency" and calling it "a threat greater than World War II."

Fossil fuels

Stein supports a national ban on fracking on the grounds that "cutting-edge science now suggests fracking is every bit as bad as coal".

Nuclear power

Stein has spoken against nuclear energy, saying it "is dirty, dangerous and expensive, and should be precluded on all of those counts."

Implications

In 2016, Stein has argued that the cost of transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2030 would in part be recouped by healthcare savings, citing studies that predict 200,000 fewer premature deaths as well as less illness. She has noted that when Cuba lost Soviet oil subsidies it experienced plummeting diabetes (down 50%), CVD (down 30%) and all-cause (down 18%) death rates.

Foreign and defense policy

At a rally in 2016, she criticized the United States' "expanding wars", saying that the United States had "already" been bombing seven countries.

In 2012, Stein favored maintaining current levels of international aid spending.

Israel and Palestine

Stein is a long-time supporter of Palestine. Her 2012 presidential campaign opposed the occupation of the West Bank by Israel and called for a boycott of Israel, which it described as an apartheid state. She is in favour of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. In 2016, she said the US should stop providing aid to Israel, which she said was committing war crimes and human rights violations.

Stein said that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the 2024 Israel-Hamas war and that both Democrats and Republicans are enabling the genocide by providing military aid to Israel while de-funding the UNRWA.

When asked in September 2016 whether she had a "position on whether a two-state solution is a better solution than a one-state solution", Stein answered by describing limitations of a two-state solution, specifically calling out the geographical fragmentation of Palestine, but that she is "not committing one way or the other at this point."

Military spending and weapons use

Stein wishes to cut U.S. military spending by at least 50%.

Stein wants to remove U.S. nuclear weapons from foreign countries. Stein has been sharply critical of the use of drones, calling them a human rights violation and an "illegal assassination program" saying that they are "off target nine times out of ten."

According to Stein, the United States should use force only when there is "good evidence that we are under imminent threat of actual attack". When asked by the Los Angeles Times editorial board whether that standard would have prevented US involvement in World War II, Stein answered, "I don't want to revisit history or try to reinterpret it, you know, but starting from where we are now, given the experience that we've had in the last, you know, since 2001, which has been an utter disaster, I don't think it's benefited us." Stein criticized the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S.-led War in Afghanistan and U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, stating: "We are party to the war crimes that are being committed by Saudi Arabia, who’s using cluster bombs made by us. And we’ve supplied $100 billion worth of weapons to the Saudis in the last decade...It’s against our own laws. The Leahy bill requires that we not sell weapons to human rights abusers."

NATO

When asked whether the US should withdraw from all of its mutual defense treaties, Stein answered that the treaties need to "be looked at one by one", mentioning NATO in particular.

Stein accused NATO member Turkey of supporting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, saying that "we need to convince Turkey, our ally in theory, to close its border to the movement of jihadi militias across its border to reinforce ISIS."

Russo-Ukrainian War

In a July 2015 interview, Stein said that NATO "pursued a policy of basically encircling Russia—including the threat of nukes and drones and so on." She was asked whether the US should aid the Ukrainian government following the 2014 revolution, to which she responded by advocating for "establishing a neutral Ukraine that would allow Russia to not feel under attack". She said that the US "helped foment a coup against a democratically-elected government", contending that the post-revolution government contained "ultra-nationalists and ex-Nazis".

In October 2016, Stein characterized the conflict as "the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse, on steroids". She said that Russia had been "surrounded" with NATO assets.

In a 2024 interview by Mehdi Hasan, Stein was asked whether she considers Vladimir Putin a "war criminal who should be on trial". Hasan juxtaposed her past remarks regarding Putin, Bashar al-Assad and Benjamin Netanyahu, repeatedly asking Stein why there had been no remarks from her characterizing Putin or Assad as a war criminal. She referred to John F. Kennedy, responding, "if you want to be an effective world leader, you don't start by name-calling and hurling epithets." She then claimed that there had been no decision by the International Criminal Court regarding Putin. Three days later in response to the interview, Stein's Twitter account posted a statement describing Putin as a war criminal.

Middle East

On the eve of the 15-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Stein called for "a comprehensive and independent inquiry into the attacks," saying that the 9/11 Commission Report contained many "omissions and distortions." The next day, she said: "I think I would not have assassinated Osama bin Laden but would have captured him and brought him to trial."

Stein told CNN that she attended the conference to advocate for a ceasefire in the Middle East and to tell Russia to stop its military incursion in Syria.

Other views

East Asia

Stein does not think the U.S. should become involved in territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

Brexit

Immediately after the UK voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, Stein came out in support of Brexit. Stein posted a celebratory statement on her website, saying the vote was "a victory for those who believe in the right of self-determination and who reject the pro-corporate, austerity policies of the political elites in the EU ... a rejection of the European political elite and their contempt for ordinary people." She later changed the statement (without indicating so), removing words like "victory" and adding the line, "Before the Brexit vote I agreed with Jeremy Corbyn, Caroline Lucas and the UK Greens who supported staying in the EU but working to fix it."

Cuba

After the death of Cuban former communist leader Fidel Castro, Stein tweeted that "Fidel Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire."

Public health and views towards vaccines

Stein is in favor of replacing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with a "Medicare for All" healthcare system and has said that it is an "illusion" that the former is a "step in the right direction" toward single-payer healthcare.

Stein has been critical of subsidizing unhealthy food products and of "agri-business" for its advertisements encouraging unhealthy eating. She has said that due to agri-business, Greeks no longer have the healthy diets they once did.

GMOs and pesticides

Stein supports GMO labeling, a moratorium on new GMOs, and the phasing out of existing GMO foods, unless independent research "shows decisively that GMOs are not harmful to human health or ecosystems". Speaking of the health effects of foods derived from GM crops, she has said: "And I can tell you as a physician with special interest and long history in environmental health, the quality of studies that we have are not what you need. We should have a moratorium until they are proven safe, and they have not been proven safe in the way that they are used."

Commentators have criticized Stein's statements about GMOs, writing that they contradict the scientific consensus, which is that existing GM foods are no less safe than foods made from conventional crops. Among the critics was Jordan Weissmann, Slate's business and economics editor, who wrote in July 2016: "Never mind that scientists have studied GMOs extensively and found no signs of danger to human health—Stein would like medical researchers to prove a negative."

Vaccinations and regulations

In response to a Twitter question about whether vaccines cause autism, Stein first answered, "there is no evidence that autism is caused by vaccines," then revised her tweet to "I'm not aware of evidence linking autism with vaccines."

Dan Kahan, a professor at Yale who has studied public perception of science, says that it is dangerous for candidates to equivocate on vaccines, "Because the attitudes about vaccines are pretty much uniform across the political spectrum, it doesn't seem like a great idea for any candidate to be anti-vaccine. The modal view is leave the freaking system alone." Emily Willingham, scientist and contributor at Forbes, described Stein's statements on vaccines as "using dog whistle terms and equivocations bound to appeal to the 'antivaccine' constituency".

In an interview with The Washington Post, Stein stated that "vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases," and said that "here were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination schedule meant, the toxic substances like mercury which used to be rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be addressed. I think some of them at least have been addressed. I don't know if all of them have been addressed."

In July 2018 Washington Post interview, Stein said that vaccines should be approved by a board that people can trust, and "people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration," or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence." According to The Guardian, eleven members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee are medical doctors who work at hospitals and universities, and two work at pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur US. In response, Stein said that "Monsanto lobbyists help run the day in those agencies and are in charge of approving what food isn't safe".

Race relations

Black Americans

Stein has deplored what she and others identify as the structural racism of the U.S. judicial and prison system. On Juneteenth in 2016, Stein called for reparations for slavery.

Native Americans

Stein has supported the Great Sioux Nation's opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, and in September 2016 joined protesters in North Dakota. In 2016, both Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, faced misdemeanor criminal charges for spray-painting bulldozers at the construction site of the pipeline with "I approve this message" and "decolonization" respectively.

Space exploration

In 2012, Vote Smart reported that Stein wanted to "slightly decrease" spending on space exploration. She favored maintaining current levels of spending on scientific and medical research. In 2016, Stein said NASA funding should be increased, arguing that by halving the military budget, more money could be directed towards "exploring space instead of destroying planet Earth."

Whistleblowers

In her 2016 acceptance speech for the Green Party nomination, she called for "end the war on whistleblowers, and free the political prisoners ... Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Jeffrey Sterling, and Edward Pinkney". She said that she would have Snowden in her Cabinet if elected. In an op-ed on the subject of WikiLeaks, Stein argued that Assange was doing what other journalists should be doing but are not, and added that whistleblowers have been increasingly subject to "character assassination" and prosecution during the Obama administration.

Electoral history

2004 9th Middlesex District

In 2004, Stein ran for state representative for the 9th Middlesex District, which included portions of Waltham and Lexington. She received 3,911 votes (21.3%) in a three-way race, ahead of the Republican candidate but far behind Democratic incumbent Thomas M. Stanley.

2005 Lexington Town Meeting

In 2005, Stein set her sights locally, running for the Lexington Town Meeting, a representative town meeting, the local legislative body in Lexington, Massachusetts. Stein was elected to one of seven seats in Precinct 2. She finished first of 16 candidates, receiving 539 votes (20.6%). Stein was reelected in 2008, finishing second of 13 vying for eight seats. Stein resigned during her second term to again run for governor.

2002 Governor of Massachusetts

Stein ran as the Green-Rainbow Party candidate in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election with Tony Lorenzen as running mate. She obtained 76,530 votes (3.5%).

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2002
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Mitt Romney 1,091,988 49.18% Decrease0.8%
Democratic Shannon O'Brien 985,981 44.40% Decrease2.2%
Green-Rainbow Jill Stein 76,530 3.44% Increase3.44
Libertarian Carla Howell 23,044 1.04% Decrease0.64
Independent Barbara Johnson 15,335 0.69% Increase0.70
Write-in 1,301 0.07% Decrease0.05
Blank 26,122 1.17%
Total votes 2,220,301 100.00 + 4.04

2006 Secretary of the Commonwealth

At the Green-Rainbow Party state convention on March 4, 2006, Stein was nominated for Secretary of the Commonwealth. In a two-way race with the three-term incumbent, Democrat Bill Galvin, she received 353,551 votes (17.7%).

Secretary of the Commonwealth election, 2006
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic William Francis Galvin 1,638,594 82.0%
Green Jill Stein 353,551 17.7%
Total votes 2,243,835 100.00

2010 Governor of Massachusetts

Jill Stein announcing her candidacy for governor in February 2010, standing in front of the Massachusetts State House

On February 8, 2010, Stein announced her second candidacy for governor. Her running mate was Richard P. Purcell, a surgery clerk and ergonomics assessor. In the November 2 general election, Stein finished fourth, receiving 32,895 votes (1.4%), again far behind the incumbent, Democrat Deval Patrick.

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2010
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic Deval Patrick (incumbent) 1,112,283 48.42 Decrease7.21
Republican Charlie Baker 964,866 42.00 Increase6.67
Independent Tim Cahill 184,395 8.03 Increase1.06
Green-Rainbow Jill Stein 32,895 1.43 Decrease0.51
Write-in All others 2,600 0.11 Decrease0.01
Total votes 2,297,039

2012 President of the United States

Stein received 469,015 votes (0.36%), the largest number of votes any woman presidential candidate had received up to that point. She received 1% or more of the vote in three states: Maine (1.1%), Oregon (1.1%), and Alaska (1.0%).

2012 United States presidential election
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Barack Obama / Joe Biden (inc.) 65,915,795 51.1%
Republican Mitt Romney / Paul Ryan 60,933,504 47.2%
Libertarian Gary Johnson / Jim Gray 1,275,971 1.0%
Green Jill Stein / Cheri Honkala 469,627 0.4%
Constitution Virgil Goode / James Clymer 122,389 0.1%
Peace and Freedom Roseanne Barr / Cindy Sheehan 67,326 0.1%
Justice Rocky Anderson / Luis J. Rodriguez 43,018 nil
American Independent Tom Hoefling / J.D. Ellis 40,628 nil
Reform Andre Barnett / Kenneth Cross 956 nil
N/A Other 216,196 0.2%
Total votes 129,085,410 100%

2016 President of the United States

Stein received 1% of the national popular vote in the election. She finished in 4th place with over 1,457,216 votes (more than the previous three Green tickets combined) and 1.07% of the popular vote.

2016 United States presidential election
Party Candidate Popular votes % Electoral votes
Republican Donald Trump / Mike Pence 62,985,106 46.09% 304
Democratic Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine 65,853,625 48.18% 227
Libertarian Gary Johnson / Bill Weld 4,489,233 3.28% 0
Green Jill Stein / Ajamu Baraka 1,457,222 1.07% 0
Independent Evan McMullin / Mindy Finn 731,788 0.54% 0
Others 1,152,671 0.84% 0
Total 136,669,237 100% 538

2024 President of the United States

2024 United States presidential election
Party Candidate Popular votes % Electoral votes
Republican Donald Trump / J.D. Vance 75,492,424 50.2 312
Democratic Kamala Harris / Tim Walz 72,350,340 48.1 226
Independent Robert Kennedy Jr. / Nicole Shanahan 706,318 0.5 0
Green Jill Stein / Butch Ware 730,939 0.5% 0
Others TBA TBA
Total TBA TBA

Personal life

Stein is married to Richard Rohrer, who is also a physician. They live in Lexington, Massachusetts, and have two sons.

In the 1990s, Stein sang in a folk rock duo called Somebody's Sister, alongside Ken Selcer. They released three albums: Somebody's Sister in 1995, Green Skies in 1997 and Circuits to the Sun in 1999.

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