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Spoiler campaign

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In response, some third-party candidates express ambivalence about which major party they prefer and their possible role as spoiler[1][better source needed] or deny the possibility.[2][better source needed] Barry Burden argues that they have almost no chance of winning the 2024 election but are often motivated but particular issues.[3]

Help from supporters of another candidate

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United States examples

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The Green Party has received support over the years from members of the Republican Party hoping to draw votes away from Democrats.[4] During Jill Stein's 2016 campaign, she was boosted on social media by Russian accounts, appeared often on Russian State TV outlets RT and Sputnik, and dined with Vladimir Putin and Michael Flynn in Moscow in December 2015.[5][6][7] The efforts to boost the profile of the party and candidates through appearances on RT and Sputnik as well as the social media campaigns is seen as an effort to boost the spoiler campaign to help elect Donald Trump.[6]

The Cornel West 2024 presidential campaign has also received criticism as and for taking support from Republican and right-leaning figures such as lawyers, operatives and canvassing companies with unknown funders to get on the ballot in several swing states.[8][9][10] The motivation is to boost his role as a spoiler candidate and benefit Trump's chances of winning.[11][12] West is ambivalent about the help and denies being a spoiler.[12]

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Cornel West

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2024 Presidential Campaign

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His candidacy has been noted for the extensive support from Trump allies to get on swing state ballots in the hopes of splitting votes away from Kamala Harris.[13][14][15] West expressed ambivalence about the support from Republicans[13] but does object to the spoiler label.[16]

David Masciotra criticized West for aligning himself with people and candidates who defend aggressive actions by Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, and the Chinese Communist Party.[17]

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Jill Stein 2024 Presidential Campaign

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The 2024 campaign, like Stein's 2016 campaign, has described as a possible spoiler campaign benefitting Donald Trump.[better source needed]

Reception

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Criticism

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See also: Jill Stein 2016 presidential campaign § Russia controversy, and Green Party of the United States § Criticism and controversies

Stein was criticized for dining with Vladimir Putin in 2015 in Moscow sponsored by Russian television network RT.[18][better source needed]

The 2024 campaign, like Stein's 2016 campaign, has been criticized as a possible spoiler campaign benefitting Donald Trump.[19][additional citation(s) needed]

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Claudia De la Cruz

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Criticism and controversies

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See also: Spoiler campaign

David Corn and David Masciotra criticized the views of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, such as the pursuit of nuclear weapons by Kim Jong Un and its defense of the Chinese government against accusations of abuses of human rights.[20][21] David Corn says its cofounder, Brian Becker, and the party's former two-time Vice-Presidential candidate Eugene Puryear both hosted shows or podcasts for Radio Sputnik, a Kremlin propaganda outlet.[21] Two of the other hosts of a recent forum for De la Cruz also had financial ties to Russia and pro-china tycoon Neville Singham.[21][22][23]

PSL has also been described as a 'fringe, anti-capitalist party' in Time.[24][additional citation(s) needed]

Democrats have been working to keep De la Cruz (and Cornel West) off of ballots,[25] while Republicans have been working to get them on the ballot,[25] hoping they will split votes from Harris that benefits Donald Trump.[citation needed]

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References

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  1. ^ Selk, Avi (2021-11-25). "Analysis | Green Party candidate says he might be part alien, doesn't care if he's a spoiler in Ohio election". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
  2. ^ Means, Marianne (February 4, 2001). "Opinion: Goodbye, Ralph". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on May 26, 2002.
  3. ^ Burden, Barry C. (2024-04-30). "Third parties will affect the 2024 campaigns, but election laws written by Democrats and Republicans will prevent them from winning". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  4. ^ Haberman, Maggie; Hakim, Danny; Corasaniti, Nick (2020-09-22). "How Republicans Are Trying to Use the Green Party to Their Advantage". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  5. ^ Sharkov, Damien (2016-09-07). "Russian Greens Brand U.S. Greens, Putin 'Accomplices'". Newsweek. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
  6. ^ a b "Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump, reports say". NBC News. 2018-12-22. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
  7. ^ "Jill Stein cost Hillary dearly in 2016. Democrats are still writing off her successor". POLITICO. June 20, 2020. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
  8. ^ "Her name was on a filing agreeing to be a Cornel West elector. Her question: What's an elector?". AP News. 2024-08-17. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  9. ^ Levy, Marc (2024-08-21). "Democrats get a third-party hopeful knocked off Pennsylvania ballot, as Cornel West tries to get on". AP News. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  10. ^ Jones, Ja'han (2023-06-07). "Cornel West's 'leftist' presidential bid has right-wing DNA". MSNBC.com. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  11. ^ Chait, Jonathan (2023-10-06). "Running Spoiler Campaigns Does Not Protect 'Democracy'". Intelligencer. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  12. ^ a b Merica, Dan; Slodysko, Brian (2024-08-19). "Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot. The left-wing academic is OK with it". AP News. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
  13. ^ a b Merica, Dan; Slodysko, Brian (2024-08-19). "Republicans scrambled to get Cornel West on the Arizona ballot. The left-wing academic is OK with it". AP News. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
  14. ^ "Republicans are central in an effort to rescue Cornel West's ballot hopes in Arizona". PBS News. 2024-08-19. Retrieved 2024-08-26.
  15. ^ "RFK Jr., Cornel West approved for ballot in Wisconsin - CBS Minnesota". www.cbsnews.com. 2024-08-28. Retrieved 2024-08-28. Republicans and their allies have worked to get West on the ballot in Wisconsin and other states in the hope that West will help boost Trump's chances of winning by pulling support from Harris. West does not need to win a state to serve as a spoiler candidate — a few thousand votes in battleground states could be decisive.
  16. ^ Masciotra, David (December 29, 2023). "Cornel West Is the Charlatan of the Year". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  17. ^ Masciotra, David (December 29, 2023). "Cornel West Is the Charlatan of the Year". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2024-08-24. His alliances also betray his proclamations of 'love,' 'service,' and 'justice.' A so-called 'revolutionary Christian,' West has praised and appeared at events with the likes of Claudia De La Cruz, the presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation. As David Corn reported for Mother Jones, the PSL supports Kim Jong Un's pursuit of nuclear weapons and defends the Chinese government against accusations of human rights abuses. Among West's other allies are former Radio Sputnik hosts who revere Putin and compliment the Chinese Communist Party as an 'inspiration.'
  18. ^ Licon, Adriana Gomez (2023-11-10). "Jill Stein launches a long-shot Green Party presidential campaign, bringing back memories of 2016". AP News. Retrieved 2024-08-25. 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.
  19. ^ Blake, Aaron (2024-08-26). "Analysis | RFK Jr.'s exit pushes the 2024 spoiler effect to the left". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
  20. ^ Masciotra, David (December 29, 2023). "Cornel West Is the Charlatan of the Year". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  21. ^ a b c Corn, David. "As a presidential candidate, Cornel West aligns himself with far-left radicals". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  22. ^ Bredderman, William (May 29, 2023). "U.S Tech Mogul Bankrolls Pro-Russia, Pro-China News Network". The Daily Beast. Sitting on the People's Forum's board is Claudia De La Cruz, who pulls triple duty as BreakThrough's secretary and as a "co-coordinator/educator" for the Justice and Education Fund. An auditor's report filed in New York shows that more of Singham's money trickled down to BreakThrough from the Forum in the form of $80,575 in donated rent in 2021, the most recent year for which filings are available. But when The Daily Beast visited the People's Forum address, it found a bookstore hawking tomes by Prashad and titles from his Leftword imprint, as well as a coffee shop and an event space—but no evidence of a studio. What's more, none of BreakThrough's hosts appear among the staff listed in the outlet's filings. Rather, the underlying nonprofit's leadership consists of figures like De La Cruz who donate an hour a week to the organization, and who like De La Cruz are affiliated with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a small far-left sect that does not appear to receive substantial donations from Singham or from anybody else. The PSL does, however, appear as an allied group to the International People's Media Network on its webpage. Puryear and Becker, two of the BreakThrough anchors, are co-founders of the party.
  23. ^ Hvistendahl, Mara; Fahrenthold, David A.; Chutel, Lynsey; Jhaveri, Ishaan (2023-08-05). "A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2023-08-05. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
  24. ^ Racker, Mini (2023-10-16). "Cornel West on Biden, Trump, and 'My Brother' RFK Jr". TIME. Retrieved 2024-08-25.
  25. ^ a b Amy, Jeff (2024-08-29). "Georgia puts Cornel West, Jill Stein and Claudia De la Cruz on the state's presidential ballots". AP News. Retrieved 2024-08-30. Democrats legally challenged West, De la Cruz, Kennedy and Stein, seeking to block candidates who could siphon votes from Harris after Joe Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020...Georgia is one of several states where Democrats and allied groups have filed challenges to third-party and independent candidates. Republicans in Georgia intervened, seeking to keep all the candidates on the ballot.
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