Affiliation Green Party | Headquarters Brooklyn, New York | |
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Campaign U.S. presidential election, 2016 Candidate Jill Stein
Former member of the Lexington
Town Meeting from the 2nd district
(2005–2011)
Ajamu Baraka
Human rights activist
Howie Hawkins (Minnesota) Status Announced: June 22, 2015
Presumptive nominee: July 15, 2016
Official nominee: August 6, 2016
Lost Election: November 8, 2016 Key people Ajamu Baraka (running mate)
David Cobb (campaign manager) | ||
The 2016 presidential campaign of Jill Stein, was announced on June 22, 2015. Jill Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, was the presidential nominee of the Green Party of the United States for President in 2016 and 2012. In 2012, Stein was the Green Party's nominee and received 469,627 votes for President of the United States in the 2012 general election.
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She formally announced her second presidential bid during an appearance on Democracy Now! on June 22, 2015.
On June 15, 2016, she reached the necessary number of delegates for the presumptive Green nomination. On August 1, 2016, Stein announced that she had selected international human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate.
Stein officially received the Green Party presidential nomination on August 6, 2016, at the party's nominating convention in Houston, Texas.
Background
On February 6, 2015, Stein announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a campaign for the Green Party's presidential nomination in 2016. In a June 2015 interview on The Alan Colmes Show, Stein said that she would announce her intention to run for President "certainly before the summer is up, probably a lot sooner than that".
In December 2015, Stein took part in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris, speaking at several forums. That same month, Stein took part in Russia Today TV's tenth anniversary celebration conference in Moscow, speaking alongside international leaders. On February 24, Stein was invited to speak at the Oxford Union at the University of Oxford in England. In March 2016, Stein was one of only two presidential candidates to receive an A rating for their health plan from Physicians for a National Health Program, an advocacy group for single-payer health care, out of an analysis of the health plans of six presidential candidates, including the top two Democratic candidates and the top three Republican candidates. In May 2016, the Marijuana Policy Project released a voter guide of the candidates of the four largest political parties (Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, and Green) in the 2016 election. Stein received an A+, tying her with Gary Johnson and placing her above the Democratic and Republican candidates.
History
Stein began taking part in the 2016 Green Party presidential primaries in February 2016. Stein was immediately the front-runner and was described as "steamrolling to victory." On June 15, 2016, the Stein campaign announced that it had received 203 delegates, enough to win the nomination on the first ballot at the 2016 Green National Convention.
During the 2016 Democratic National Convention the Green Party encouraged disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters to switch support. Stein officially won the Green Party nomination on August 6, 2016.
Fundraising
In an e-mail to supporters on June 10, 2015, Stein wrote "I'm preparing to make a big announcement next week." She also challenged her supporters to raise $10,000 in that time period. Two days later on June 12, Stein's campaign sent another e-mail indicating that she had surpassed that goal and raised her fundraising goal to $30,000. Stein noted that she would seek to qualify for matching funds from the federal government by raising at least $5,000 from residents of 20 states before receiving the nomination in 2016. The e-mail indicated that she had already raised more than the requisite amount from residents of California and that Washington State, New York, and others were very close behind. In September, Stein's campaign said they had met the $5,000 mark in five states (California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington) and had received at least half of that amount in eight others.
As of November 22, 2015, Stein's campaign had surpassed the requisite fundraising totals in at least 9 states. On November 28, Richard Winger of Ballot Access News reported that Stein would likely qualify for the initial public funding before January 1, 2016. However, on January 3, Ballot Access News reported that Stein's campaign had only qualified in 13 states. It said that the campaign was trying to qualify in 8 others. On January 8, Stein's campaign announced it had enough contributions to qualify for FEC funds. Nevertheless, the campaign did not submit its request for matching funds and accompanying documentation until March 28, after which the FEC declared Stein eligible for matching funds on April 14, 2016.
In January 2017, Stein and her campaign received the final amount of matching funds from the FEC. The final check equaled $134,900. Overall, the campaign received $590,935.39 in matching funds.
Platform and issues
The Stein platform is labeled a 'power to the people plan.'
The main issues of Stein's platform are:
Ballot status
A.^ Based on 2004 - 2008 electoral college apportionment. B.^ Based on 1992 - 2000 electoral college apportionment.Results
On Election Day, Stein finished in 4th with over 1.4 million votes (more than the previous three Green tickets combined) and 1.06% of the popular vote. However, she finished three million votes under Gary Johnson as the Greens once again finished behind the Libertarian Party, though they did gain more votes than Independent candidate Evan McMullin and Constitution Party candidate Darrell Castle.