A new poll suggests that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is drawing more voters from former President Donald Trump than from Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to a Noble Predictive Insights survey released last week, Harris holds a narrow lead over Trump in a hypothetical three-way race. With Stein on the ballot, Harris’ lead expands, pointing to a potential spoiler effect similar to what many Democrats blamed Stein for doing to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
For Trump, the emergence of Stein as a potential spoiler may be a critical factor in battleground states, where even a small shift in votes could determine the outcome. For Harris, Stein’s candidacy could paradoxically provide an unexpected advantage, drawing votes from Trump and narrowing his pathway to victory.
- Alsephina ( @Alsephina@lemmy.ml ) English8•2 hours ago
Libs will still blame leftists like blue maga wants them to.
- P03 Locke ( @p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•2 hours ago
This is a sentence with words, but the arrangement makes no sense. You sure you didn’t generate that from ChatGPT?
- Alsephina ( @Alsephina@lemmy.ml ) English4•2 hours ago
? Do you disagree? Isn’t blaming leftists what blue maga is currently priming their voters for if/when they lose?
- Arelin ( @Arelin@lemmy.zip ) 2•2 hours ago
This is a sentence with words, but the arrangement makes no sense. You sure you didn’t generate that from ChatGPT?
- GissaMittJobb ( @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ) 8•7 hours ago
I’m struggling really hard to see which voter is on the fence between Trump and Stein. Wouldn’t it be more likely to be on the fence between Stein and Harris, or Stein and the couch?
Jill Stein is providing spite voters an option to not vote for Donald Trump.
Hillary took a lot of friendly fire in 2016 from the Bernie Bros who were not too happy.
- maniacalmanicmania ( @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ) 13•7 hours ago
I think Trump draws a lot of broad support from his ‘anti-establishment’ rhetoric so it kinda makes sense for folks to look to other anti-establishment candidates as an alternative to him. There’s a tendency to look down upon Trump voters as only right wingers, conspiracists etc and not really understand that a lot of his support is superficial and based on limited information.
In a way it’s not so much that Stein or other left candidates are spoilers for the establishment Dems but more the case that figures like Trump are spoilers for progressive alternatives to the establishment.
- octopus_ink ( @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ) English10•8 hours ago
Jill Stein releases a statement: “To be clear, I only want Kamala votes please! Only former Kamala voters!”
- bigkahuna1986 ( @bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ) 35•9 hours ago
I won’t believe a single poll until this election is over. There is so much incentive for misinformation out there it is unbearable. Just get out and vote.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English8•9 hours ago
What about four-way race? Some states still have RFK on the ballot 🥴
- BlueLineBae ( @BlueLineBae@midwest.social ) English4•9 hours ago
In Illinois, we had RFK and no Jilly-bean.
- JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) 3•7 hours ago
Yep. Thought that was weird since he dropped out.