Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has posted a job ad for a project manager to check third-party candidates at the Democratic National Committee, signaling panic among Democrats over the state of the race.
Stein posted a screenshot of a job listing for an “Independent and Third Party Project Manager” on Friday.
oh. @TheDemocrats They posted, then removed, a job listing for a “third-party project manager” who would infiltrate our competitors and find ways to exclude us from voting. Is this how we “save democracy”?
Help us fight back and make sure New York gets to the polls that matter. pic.twitter.com/StyeqvmI7w
— Dr. Jill Stein 🌻 (@DrJillStein) May 24, 2024
“oh. @TheDemocrats “They posted, then took down, a job for a ‘Third Party Project Manager’ to infiltrate our competitors and find ways to exclude us from the vote. Are they ‘saving democracy’ this way?” Stein wrote.
The job ad comes as third-party candidates are hurting President Joe Biden in national polls, while damaging former President Donald Trump. show As of Saturday, Trump was leading Biden by 1.1 percentage points, 47.5 to 46.4, according to a five-way average from RealClearPolling. Expanding The poll rose to 2.4 percent, giving Trump a lead of 41.7 percent to 39.3 percent. Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 10.5 percent, and independents Cornell West and Stein, both of whom are on the political left, received 1.7 percent and 1.5 percent, respectively.
A copy of the post Available According to an article published in Built In, the DNC is offering $65,000 for the position, which would see the project manager oversee and manage third-party “operations” in each state.
The first responsibility listed for the role will be to track the campaign activities of Stein, Kennedy Jr. and West and “share real-time information locally.”
Harvard Professor Cornel West speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), I-Vt., at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center Arena in Durham, New Hampshire, on Feb. 10, 2020. (Associated Press/Andrew Harnick, File) // Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Federal Weaponization on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 20, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The top goal listed in the “initial phase of work” is to gather “on the ground information to help assess the overall situation for independent and third-party candidates.”
This includes a candidate’s “progress in accessing the ballot,” “campaigning,” Organizational strength, voter and grassroots enthusiasm” Furthermore, the first stage includes “We are seeking leaders and advocates across the state for four current and future program priorities.”
As part of the mobilization effort, the project manager is tasked with recruiting volunteers to participate in Stein, West, and Kennedy Jr.’s events.
Other goals of the first phase are to recruit “volunteers for petition review and other legal assistance with potential ballot access challenges” and to engage in “petition review and assistance with the petition review program.”
