Doctor and activist Jill Stein is launching another bid for the White House, announcing Thursday that she will seek the 2024 Green Party nomination for president.
It will be Stein’s third presidential run after unsuccessful third-party White House bids in 2012 and 2016.
“The political system is broken,” Stein said position X announced its new campaign. “More than 60% of us now say the establishment of two parties has failed us and we need a party that serves the people.”
“I am running for the position of President to offer better options for the people,” he added.
Stein’s entry into the presidential fray adds to the left-wing pressure that President Biden will face in 2024.
Stein previously ran for president in 2012 and 2016.AP
Left-wing activist and professor Cornel West, who previously competed for the Green Party nomination, is now running for president as an independent candidate.
So did environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who last month was dropped from the Democratic primary.
Biden, 80, also faces a challenge within his own party from Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who announced his bid for the incumbent last month.
A CNN poll released earlier this week showed former President Donald Trump leading Biden by 4 percentage points in a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 election.
The same survey showed Kennedy Jr. received 16% support and West received 4% of the vote in a four-cornered race.
“Both Democrats and Republicans have broken their promises time and time again,” Stein said in a statement.
“People in politics are always vilifying outsiders like us, and trying to shame voters who want better options,” he added. “But without freedom of choice in elections, there is no democracy. It’s time to offer the American people a real choice on their ballot independent of a failed establishment.”
Stein vowed to eliminate medical and student debt, if elected.X / Dr. Jill Stein
The Harvard-trained doctor campaigned on a platform that included offering “wage jobs for all Americans,” free health care, housing, food and education, eliminating medical and student debt and creating a “Green New Deal.”
Stein also vowed to “end endless war and rampant militarism, and use diplomacy and international law to end terrorism, occupation, and apartheid.”
He received about 1.4 million votes, or 1.1%, during the 2016 presidential campaign, far more than the 469,501 votes, or 0.4%, he received in his 2012 bid.
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