9 candidates running for president in 2024

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Monday, August 26, 2024

US presidential hopeful Jill Stein poses in New York on April 15, 2024. Climate change is a minor issue on the U.S. political agenda and the country's Green Party and its candidate Jill Stein are next to invisible in the presidential race. Making her third tilt at the White House, Stein is relying on her positions on issues outside of the environment to stay in the mix. According to a recent poll, Stein is pulling around 2 percent support, after finishing with 0.4 percent and 1 percent of votes in 2012 and 2016, respectively. | THOMAS URBAIN/AFP via Getty Images

4. Jill Stein

Jill Stein, who was the Green Party’s presidential nominee in 2012 and 2016, announced in a November X post that she was mounting a third White House bid. “The political system is broken. Over 60% of us now say the two-party establishment has failed us and we need a party that serves the people. I’m running for President to offer a better choice for the people,” she wrote.

The political system is broken. Over 60% of us now say the two-party establishment has failed us and we need a party that serves the people.

I’m running for President to offer a better choice for the people. Join us!https://t.co/sjGXNNSnmK pic.twitter.com/QkrugPGadb
— Dr. Jill Stein???? (@DrJillStein) November 9, 2023

“Our democracy is on life support. Belief in our political system is at historic lows and the number who feel neither establishment party represents them is at a record high. We need real choices on the ballot because without freedom of choice in elections, there is no democracy,” Stein added. “When we stand together, we the people have the power — and we can use it in this election to start building an America and a world that works for all of us.”

Stein’s website characterizes her campaign as advancing “a pro-worker, anti-war, climate action agenda.” She is also calling for an “Economic Bill of Rights establishing the rights to a living-wage job, guaranteed livable income, housing, healthcare, childcare, lifelong education, secure retirement, utilities, healthy food and clean water, so that all of us are guaranteed the basic security for a good life that can reach our highest potential.”

Additional aspects of her platform include “a Green New Deal with massive investment in green jobs, industries, and technologies to revitalize the American economy, improve our quality of life, protect our planet and safeguard our children’s future” and “a new foreign policy based on diplomacy, international law, and human rights to oppose violence, occupation, and apartheid.”

As of late August, the Green Party has ballot access in 25 states and Washington, D.C. The total number of electoral votes in the states where the Green Party has ballot access adds up to 311, exceeding the 270 required to win.

However, the Green Party may secure write-in access in four additional states, which boast a combined 44 electoral votes. It is tied up in legal action over its ballot access in two additional states, which contain a combined 39 electoral votes. The minor political party does not currently have ballot access in the remaining 19 states, which have a combined 144 electoral votes.

According to Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, Stein won 0.36% of the popular vote in her 2012 White House run and 1.07% of the popular vote in her 2016 bid. In 2020, when Howie Hawkins was the Green Party nominee, the party received just 0.26% of the popular vote nationwide.

As of Aug. 26, the RealClearPolitics average of polls including Stein as one of five candidates voters can choose from in the 2024 presidential election shows Stein capturing 0.8% of the vote. Stein announced in an X post in May that she had clinched enough delegates to secure the Green Party’s presidential nomination. She has selected Butch Ware, a Muslim history professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, as her running mate.