Doctor and activist Jill Stein is preparing another run for the White House, announcing Thursday that she will seek the Green Party’s presidential nomination in 2024.
It will be Stein’s third presidential bid after failed third-party bids for the White House in 2012 and 2016.
“The political system is broken,” Stein said in a post announcing their new campaign. “More than 60% of us now say that the two-party establishment has failed us and that we need a party that serves the people.”
“I’m running for president to provide a better option for the people,” he added.
Stein’s entry into the presidential race adds to the pressure from the left that President Biden will face in 2024.
Stein previously ran for president in 2012 and 2016.AP
Far-left activist and professor Cornel West, who had previously been running for the Green Party nomination, is now running for president as an independent.
As did environmental lawyer and vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who dropped out of the Democratic primary last month.
Biden, 80, also faces a challenge within his own party from Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), who announced his candidacy in the incumbent’s primary 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 poll showed Kennedy Jr. receiving 16% support and West garnering 4% of the vote in a four-way race.
“Both Democrats and Republicans have betrayed their promises time and time again,” Stein said in a statement.
“Inside politicians always slander outsiders like us and try to shame voters who want better options,” he added. “But without freedom of choice in elections there is no democracy. “It is time to offer the American people a real choice in their elections, independent of the failed establishment.”
Stein promises to abolish medical and student debt, if elected.X / Dr. Jill Stein
The Harvard-educated doctor is campaigning on a platform that includes offering “living wage jobs for all Americans,” free healthcare, housing, food and education, abolishing medical and student debt, and creating a “Green New Deal.”
Stein also promised to “end endless war and unbridled militarism, and use diplomacy and international law to end violence, occupation and apartheid.”
He received approximately 1.4 million votes, or 1.1%, during his 2016 presidential campaign, far more than the 469,501 votes, or 0.4%, he received in his 2012 campaign.
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