The Democratic National Committee is seeking to remove the Green Party’s presidential candidate from the battleground state’s ballot, who won more votes in the state than former President Donald Trump won in 2016.
DNC officials filed a complaint Wednesday about Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s inclusion on the ballot, arguing that because the Wisconsin Green Party does not hold any statewide office, Stein cannot properly be nominated as a candidate, the DNC said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.
“We take the presidential and vice presidential nomination process very seriously and believe all candidates should follow the rules,” said Adrienne Watson, senior adviser to the Democratic National Committee. “The Green Party of Wisconsin has not fielded any candidates for Congress or statewide office, and because we have no sitting Congressional or statewide officeholders, we cannot nominate candidates and they should not appear on the ballot in the November election.”
Stein’s campaign manager disputed the allegations, telling Fox the move was part of an “anti-democratic plot.”
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein waits to speak during a press conference on 5th Avenue across from Trump Tower on December 5, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Ungerer/Getty Images)
“This is a fisheries investigation orchestrated by the Democratic National Committee, consistent with what they said in March they were going to hire a bunch of lawyers and undercover agents to look for every angle of attack to deny the Green Party access to the ballot,” said Jason Cole, Stein’s campaign manager. “We’re going to be hiring lawyers to protect our ballot in Wisconsin.”
Trump won Wisconsin in the 2016 presidential election, defeating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by about 27,000 votes.
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Stein, the Green Party candidate in 2016, won 30,980 votes in Wisconsin that year, more than the margin of victory Trump received in the state over Clinton.
Similar results were seen in other key states won by Trump during that election.
Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election intensified liberal criticism of the Electoral College. (Mike Seeger/Reuters)
On December 1, 2016, Dave Wasserman, a senior election analyst at the Cook Political Report, posted on then-TwitterX highlighting that Stein’s vote count exceeded Trump’s margin of victory in three key battleground states that would determine the outcome of the presidential election: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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In Michigan, Trump beat Clinton by about 10,000 votes. Stein won the state by more than 50,000 votes, again exceeding the margin of victory.
Steyn is expected to be effectively nominated as the Green Party’s candidate at the party’s annual national conference in August.
