Jill Stein#Science

{{Jill Stein series}}

Jill Ellen Stein was born on May 14, 1950,{{cite news |title=Jill Stein {{!}} 2024 presidential candidate |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/jill-stein-2024/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=6 November 2024}} in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in nearby Highland Park, Illinois. Stein was raised in a Reform Jewish household, attending Chicago's North Shore Congregation Israel.{{cite web |last1=Sales |first1=Ben |title=6 things to know about Jill Stein, Israel-bashing last Jewish candidate standing |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/6-things-to-know-about-jill-stein-the-last-jewish-presidential-candidate-standing/ |website=Times of Israel |access-date=28 September 2024 |date=16 July 2016}}

In 1973, Stein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where she studied psychology, sociology, and anthropology. She then attended Harvard Medical School and graduated in 1979. Stein practiced medicine in the Boston area for 25 years. She also served as an instructor in internal medicine at Harvard Medical School.{{cite web |title=Jill Stein {{!}} Education, Medical Career, Activism, Election Results, Green New Deal, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jill-Stein |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=1 October 2024 |language=en |date=20 September 2024}}

File:Jill Stein.jpgAs a physician, Stein became increasingly concerned about the connection between people's health and the quality of their local environment. She subsequently turned to activism. In 1998, she began protesting the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/meet-jill-stein-green-party-candidate-president-n541536|title=Meet Jill Stein, the Green Party Candidate for President|website=NBC News|access-date=May 31, 2016|date=March 26, 2016}}{{cite web |date=November 30, 2015 |title=Harvard Grad Jill Stein Faces Uphill Battle for Presidency |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/11/30/jill-stein-president-feature/ |access-date=May 31, 2016 |website=Harvard Crimson}}

The Clean Election Law provided public funding for candidates not receiving large private donations, and was eventually repealed in 2003 by the Democratic party controlled state legislature.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-08 |title=Jill Stein {{!}} Education, Medical Career, Activism, Election Results, Green New Deal, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jill-Stein |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}} Stein has said that she left the Democratic Party and joined the Green Party when "the Democratic Party killed campaign finance reform in my state".

In a 2024 interview with Haaretz, Stein said the Green Party was an alternative to the "rigid two-party system [in which] both parties are widely regarded as sponsored by and serving the economic elites, and share their core interests. They're both parties of war and of Wall Street. They may differ on social issues, but on core policies they're very much the same".{{cite web |last1=Slyomovics |first1=Nettanel |title='I Was Taught Genocide Should Never Happen Again': Jill Stein vs. the State of Israel |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-18/ty-article-magazine/.premium/i-was-taught-genocide-should-never-happen-again-jill-stein-vs-the-state-of-israel/0000018e-f28f-dea6-ab9e-f28f095d0000 |website=Haaretz |access-date=1 October 2024 |date=18 April 2024}}

On January 20, Stein spoke at rally in New York, convened by The People's Forum, Palestinian Youth Movement, and A.N.S.W.E.R. as a part of the We Fight Back Inauguration Day Protests.{{Cite web |title=We Fight Back – Jan 20, 2025 |url=https://peoplesforum.org/events/we-fight-back-jan-20-2025/ |access-date=2024-11-12 |website=The People's Forum |language=en-US}} Stein delivered a speech encouraging protesting against the "American Empire" and Israel, and celebrated the pro-Palestine student protest movement. Spectrum News characterized the rally as very left-wing, noting that the activists carried signs hostile to the Democratic party.{{Cite web |title=New Yorkers rally against Trump's agenda |url=https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/01/20/donald-trump-protest-manhattan |website=Spectrum News |language=en-US}}

{{main|Jill Stein 2012 presidential campaign}}

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Stein launched her campaign in October 2011. In December 2011, Ben Manski, a Wisconsin Green Party leader, was announced as Stein's campaign manager.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ballot-access.org/2011/12/01/ben-manski-will-be-campaign-chair-for-jill-stein-presidential-run/|title=Ben Manski Will be Campaign Manager for Jill Stein Presidential Run|last=Winger|first=Richard|magazine=Ballot Access News|access-date=December 3, 2011}} Her major primary opponents were actress Roseanne Barr and activist Kent Mesplay.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/05/the-3-green-party-candidates-and-their-disappointing-platforms/257436/|title=The 3 Green Party Candidates and Their Disappointing Platforms|last=Friedersdorf|first=Conor|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=July 28, 2016|date=May 21, 2012}} Stein proposed the Green New Deal, a government spending plan intended to put 25 million people to work. Mesplay called that unrealistic, saying, "This will take time to implement, and lacks legislative support." Stein became the presumptive Green Party nominee after winning two-thirds of California's delegates in June 2012.{{cite web| url= http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120606jill_stein_says_she_has_delegates_for_green_party_nod_for_president/|title=Jill Stein says she has delegates for Green Party nod for president| work=Boston Herald | publisher=Boston.com| access-date= June 26, 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/06/06/mitt-romney-won-the-only-massachusetts-resident-the-presidential-ballot/0yfXioXs4lKJIFy2YumpoJ/story.html|title=Mitt Romney won't be the only Massachusetts resident on the presidential ballot|work=The Boston Globe |access-date=June 26, 2012}} On July 1, 2012, the Stein campaign reported it had received enough contributions to qualify for primary season federal matching funds. This made Stein the first Green Party presidential candidate ever to have qualified for federal matching funds.{{cite news |last= Stapleton |first=Christine |date=July 12, 2012 |title=Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein qualifies for matching funds |url=https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/politics/2012/07/12/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill/7709247007/ |work=The Palm Beach Post |access-date=January 31, 2024}}{{cite news |last=Turner |first=Maureen |date=July 12, 2012 |title=Stein Qualifies for Public Campaign Funds |url=https://valleyadvocate.com/2012/07/12/stein-qualifies-for-public-campaign-funds/ |work=The Valley Advocate |access-date=January 31, 2024}} On July 11, Stein selected Cheri Honkala, an anti-poverty activist, as her vice-presidential running mate.Caldwell, Leigh Ann (July 11, 2012) [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/running-mate-revealed-green-party-running-mate-that-is/ "Running mate revealed: Green Party running mate, that is"], CBS News. Retrieved July 11, 2012.Steinmetz, Katy (July 11, 2012) [https://swampland.time.com/2012/07/11/the-green-team-jill-steins-third-party-bid-to-shake-up-2012/ "The Green Team: Jill Stein's Third-Party Bid to Shake Up 2012"], TIME Swampland (election blog). Retrieved July 11, 2012. On July 14, she officially received the Green Party's nomination at its convention in Baltimore.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-07-14/green-party-jill-stein/56226288/1|title=Mass. doctor Jill Stein wins Green Party's presidential nod|date=July 14, 2012 |work=USA Today |agency=Associated Press|access-date=July 15, 2012}}{{cite web | url=http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-green-convention-close-20120714,0,2011815.story| title=Green Party nominates Jill Stein for president at Baltimore convention | work=The Baltimore Sun | date=July 14, 2012 | access-date=July 15, 2012 | last=Kilar | first=Steve | archive-date=June 7, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607042553/http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-green-convention-close-20120714,0,2011815.story | url-status=dead }}

On August 1, Stein, Honkala and three others were arrested during a sit-in at a Philadelphia bank to protest housing foreclosures on behalf of several city residents struggling to keep their homes.{{cite news | url=http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120801green_party_nominee_jill_stein_arrested_in_philly_bank_sit-in/srvc=home&position=recent | title=Green Party nominee Jill Stein arrested in Philly bank sit-in | agency=Associated Press | work=Boston Herald | date=August 1, 2012 | access-date=August 1, 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806021801/http://news.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/20120801green_party_nominee_jill_stein_arrested_in_philly_bank_sit-in/srvc%3Dhome%26position%3Drecent | archive-date=August 6, 2012 | df=mdy-all }} On October 16, Stein and Honkala were arrested after they tried to enter the site of the presidential debate at Hofstra University while protesting the exclusion of smaller political parties, such as the Green Party, from the debates.{{cite news |last1=Cirilli |first1=Kevin |title=Green Party ticket arrested at debate |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2012/10/green-party-ticket-arrested-at-debate-site-082490 |work=POLITICO |language=en}} Stein likened her arrest to the persecution of dissident Sergei Udaltsov in Russia.{{Cite tweet|user=DrJillStein|number=258990979133091841|title=#Putin persecutes #Left opposition leader #Udaltsov. #U.S. gov arrests #Green prez candidates. Is #Russia approaching U.S. or vice-versa?|access-date=November 9, 2023|date=October 18, 2012}} On October 31, Stein was arrested in Texas for criminal trespass, after trying to deliver food and supplies to environmental activists of Tar Sands Blockade camped out in trees protesting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.{{Cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/10/31/green-party-presidential-hopeful-arrested-in-pipeline-protest/|title=Green Party presidential hopeful arrested in pipeline protest|author=James B. Kelleher|work=Chicago Tribune|date=October 31, 2012|access-date=November 1, 2012}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/green-party-candidate-jill-stein-arrested/2012/10/31/0f309970-2373-11e2-8448-81b1ce7d6978_story.html|title=Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein charged with trespassing in Keystone XL protest|first=Steven|last=Mufson|newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 31, 2012|access-date=November 1, 2012}}

The Free & Equal Elections Foundation hosted a third-party debate with Stein and three other candidates on October 19, followed by a debate between Stein and Gary Johnson held on November 5.{{cite news|last1=Calderone|first1=Michael|title=Third-Party Debate To Be Broadcast By Al Jazeera English, RT America, But Not Major Cable News Networks|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/third-party-debate-al-jazeera-english_n_1988014.html|newspaper=Huffington Post|access-date=August 31, 2016|date=October 19, 2012}}{{cite web|title=Open Debates|url=http://action.freeandequal.org/Open-Debates/|website=Free and Equal|access-date=August 31, 2016|archive-date=September 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914164008/http://action.freeandequal.org/Open-Debates/|url-status=dead}}

{{main|Jill Stein 2016 presidential campaign}}

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File:Historian and scholar Jon Wiener on his podcast Start Making Sense with guest Green Party candidate Jill Stein.jpg, The Nation writer and host of the political podcast Start Making Sense in 2016]]

On February 6, 2015, Stein announced the formation of an exploratory committee in preparation for a potential campaign for the Green Party's presidential nomination in 2016.Pindell, James (February 6, 2015) [https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/06/green-party-candidate-jill-stein-considers-second-run-for-president/tNGrbmsmiTMXkjcJg92aNK/story.html "Jill Stein, Green Party candidate, considers a second run for president"], The Boston Globe. Retrieved February 6, 2015 On June 22, she formally announced her candidacy in a live interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now![http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/22/exclusive_green_partys_jill_stein_announces "Exclusive: Green Party's Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President on Democracy Now!"], Democracynow.org. June 22, 2015, Retrieved June 23, 2015. After former Ohio state senator Nina Turner reportedly declined to be her running mate,{{Cite web |date=August 2, 2016 |title=Nina Turner turns down offer to be the Green Party's candidate for vice president |url=http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/08/nina_turner_turns_down_offer_t.html|first= Henry J. |last=Gomez|access-date=August 2, 2016 |website=Cleveland.com}} Stein chose human rights activist Ajamu Baraka on August 1, 2016.{{Cite web|url=https://time.com/4434544/jill-stein-ajamu-baraka-vice-president-green-party/|title=Green Party's Jill Stein Picks Ajamu Baraka as Running Mate|last=Iyengar|first=Rishi|magazine=Time|date=August 2, 2016 |access-date=August 2, 2016}}

Stein stated during the 2016 campaign that the Democratic and Republican parties are "two corporate parties" that have converged into one.{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ixbr5/i_am_jill_stein_green_party_candidate_for/d31zimt?context=3|title=I am Jill Stein, Green Party candidate for President, AMA! • /r/IAmA|website=reddit|date=May 11, 2016|access-date=July 19, 2016}} Concerned by the rise of neofascism internationally and the rise of neoliberalism within the Democratic Party, she has said, "The answer to neofascism is stopping neoliberalism. Putting another Clinton in the White House will fan the flames of this right-wing extremism. We have known that for a long time, ever since Nazi Germany."{{Cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.734445|title=Watch //Jill Stein: To stop Trump's neofascism, we must stop Clinton's neoliberalism|newspaper=Haaretz|access-date=July 31, 2016|date=July 31, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvAJ2WrJm3Q |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/JvAJ2WrJm3Q |archive-date=December 13, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Left Forum 2016, Is Sanders the Answer to Building Left and Black Power?|website=youtube|date=May 24, 2016 |publisher=Open University of the Left|access-date=August 17, 2016}}{{cbignore}} In August 2016, Stein released the first two pages of her 2015 tax return on her website.{{Cite web|url=http://www.jill2016.com/tax_returns|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814201131/http://www.jill2016.com/tax_returns|url-status=usurped|archive-date=August 14, 2016|title=Tax Returns|access-date=August 11, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2016/08/11/jill-stein-releases-2015-federal-tax-return/#7104ae124d3a|title=Jill Stein Releases 2015 Federal Tax Return|last=Reilly|first=Peter J|website=Forbes|access-date=August 12, 2016}}

Stein's financial disclosure, filed in March 2016, indicated that she maintained investments of as much as $8.5 million, including mutual or index funds that included holdings in industries that she had previously criticized, such as energy, financial, pharmaceutical, tobacco, and defense contractors.{{Cite news |last=Ali |first=Yashar |date=October 26, 2016 |title=Jill Stein's Ideology Says One Thing—Her Investment Portfolio Says Another |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-ideology-says-one-thingher-investment-portfolio-says-another/ |access-date=October 26, 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Beast}} In response to questions about her finances, Stein said in part: "Sadly, most of these broad investments are as compromised as the American economy—degraded as it is by the fossil fuel, defense and finance industries", and later characterized the article as a "smear attack" against her.{{Cite news|url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/green-partys-jill-stein-defends-big-oil-fund-investments-after-smear-attack-2016-10-28|title=Green Party's Jill Stein defends Big Oil fund investments after 'smear attack'|last=Schroeder|first=Robert|date=October 28, 2016|newspaper=MarketWatch|access-date=November 1, 2016}}

On September 7, 2016, a North Dakota judge issued a warrant for Stein's arrest for spray-painting a bulldozer during a protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Stein was charged in Morton County with misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and criminal mischief. Her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, received the same charges.{{cite web|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/green-party-candidate-faces-charges-graffiti-protest-125826468.html|title=Green Party's Jill Stein charged with trespassing, mischief|date=September 7, 2016|publisher=Yahoo|access-date=September 8, 2016|archive-date=September 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921125823/https://www.yahoo.com/news/green-party-candidate-faces-charges-graffiti-protest-125826468.html|url-status=dead}} After the warrant was issued, Stein said that she would cooperate with the North Dakota authorities and arrange a court date. She defended her actions, saying that it would have been "inappropriate for me not to have done my small part" to support the Standing Rock Sioux.{{cite web|url=http://abc7chicago.com/politics/green-party-presidential-candidate-to-speak-on-arrest-warrant/1504713/|title=Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to speak on arrest warrant|date=September 9, 2016|publisher=ABC|access-date=September 9, 2016}} In August 2017, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief and was placed on probation for six months.{{cite web| url = https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/latest-jill-stein-pleads-guilty-pipeline-protest-49120270| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180129195047/http://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/latest-jill-stein-pleads-guilty-pipeline-protest-49120270| archive-date = January 29, 2018| title = The Latest: Jill Stein pleads guilty in pipeline protest| website = ABC News}}

Stein said in an interview with Politico that: "Donald Trump, I think, will have a lot of trouble moving things through Congress. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, won't ... Hillary has the potential to do a whole lot more damage, get us into more wars, faster to pass her fracking disastrous climate program, much more easily than Donald Trump could do his."{{cite web|url=http://news.wgbh.org/2016/07/27/politics-government/jill-stein-crashes-dnc-fox-news|title=Jill Stein Crashes The DNC With Fox News|date=July 27, 2016|publisher=WGBH News|last1=Reilly|first1=Adam}}

In the same interview, Stein said regarding Trump's business dealings and refusal to release his tax returns: "At least with Clinton, you know, there was some degree of transparency, but what's going on with Trump, you can't even get at, and what he said was that even to clarify 15 out of these 500 deals, these are just like the most frightening mafiosos around the world. He's like—he's a magnet for crime and extortion."{{cite web|last1=Thrush|first1=Glenn|title=Jill Stein: Trump may have 'memory problem'|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/jill-stein-trump-may-have-memory-problem-228346|website=Politico|date=September 19, 2016}}

Stein's highest polling average in four candidate polls was in late June 2016, when she polled at 4.8% nationally before ending at 1.9% nationally on the eve of election day.[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html General Election: Trump vs. Clinton vs. Johnnson vs. Stein], Real Clear Politics, August 30, 2016. Retrieved August 31, 2016. Her polling numbers gradually slipped throughout the campaign, consistent with historical trends for minor party candidates.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/upshot/can-gary-johnson-the-libertarian-nominee-swing-the-election.html|title=Can Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Nominee, Swing the Election?|last=Katz|first=Josh|date=August 4, 2016 |newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|quote=Since 1968, all of the major third-party candidates have seen their polling averages decline closer to the election. ... Jill Stein, the Green Party's presumptive nominee ... is polling in the low-single digits and is a long shot to make the debates.|access-date=August 4, 2016}}{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/05/a-new-poll-has-donald-trump-in-fourth-place-behind-hillary-clinton-gary-johnson-and-jill-stein-with-young-people/|title=A new poll has Trump in fourth — behind Gary Johnson AND Jill Stein — with young people|date=August 5, 2016|newspaper=The Washington Post |quote=Third-party candidates tend to poll better before Election Day than they actually perform on Election Day. ... If history is any guide (and it has not always been one this election cycle), support for Johnson and Stein will ebb over the next three months.|author=Aaron Blake}}

Stein played a significant role in several crucial battleground states, drawing a vote total in three of them—Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania—that exceeded the margin between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.Haberman, Maggie et al (September 22, 2020) [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/us/politics/green-party-republicans-hawkins.html?searchResultPosition=1 "How Republicans Are Trying to Use the Green Party to Their Advantage."] New York Times. (Retrieved September 24, 2020.)

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In November 2016, a group of computer scientists and election lawyers including J. Alex Halderman and John Bonifaz (founder of the National Voting Rights Institute) expressed concerns about the integrity of the presidential election results. They wanted a full audit or recount of the presidential election votes in three states key to Donald Trump's electoral college win—Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania—but needed a candidate on the presidential ballot to file the petition to state authorities. After unsuccessfully lobbying Hillary Clinton and her team, the group approached Stein and she agreed to spearhead the recount effort.{{cite news|last1=Swaine|first1=John|last2=Chalabi|first2=Mona|title=US election recount: how it began – and what effect it could have|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/28/election-recount-jill-stein-hillary-clinton-donald-trump|access-date=December 2, 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|date=November 28, 2016}}

A crowdfunding campaign launched on November 24, 2016, to support the costs of the recount, raised more than $2.5 million in under 24 hours,{{cite web|last1=McBride|first1=Jessica|title=Jill Stein Crowdfunding: Green Party Nominee Raises $5.4 Million to Fund Recounts|url=http://heavy.com/news/2016/11/jill-stein-crowdfunding-vote-recount-recounts-online-fundraising-site-wisconsin-michigan-pennsylvania-hillary-clinton-trump-fraud-hacking-rigged/|website=Heavy.com|access-date=December 2, 2016|date=November 24, 2016}} and $6.7 million in nearly a week.{{cite news|last1=Schultheis|first1=Emily|title=Jill Stein's recount fundraising: What happens to leftover money?|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jill-steins-recount-fundraising-what-happens-to-leftover-money/|access-date=December 2, 2016|agency=CBS News|date=December 1, 2016}} On November 25, 2016, with 90 minutes remaining on the deadline to petition for a recount to Wisconsin's electoral body, Stein filed for a recount of its presidential election results. She signaled she intended to file for similar recounts in the subsequent days in Michigan and Pennsylvania.{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/jill-stein-submits-presidential-recount-petition-wisconsin-n688316|title=Election recount process to begin in Wisconsin after Green Party petition|work=nbcnews.com|date=November 26, 2016 |access-date=November 26, 2016}} President-elect Donald Trump issued a statement denouncing the recount request saying, "The people have spoken and the election is over." Trump further commented that the recount "is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded."{{cite news|title=READ: Trump Slams Jill Stein Over 'Ridiculous' Vote Recount Effort|url=http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/26/donald-trump-reacts-jill-steins-recount-effort-presidential-election-votes|publisher=Fox News|date=November 26, 2016|access-date=November 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127131148/http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/26/donald-trump-reacts-jill-steins-recount-effort-presidential-election-votes|archive-date=November 27, 2016|url-status=dead}}

On December 2, 2016, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed a lawsuit to stop Stein's recount.{{cite news|first=David|last=Wright|title=Michigan attorney general files lawsuit to stop recount|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/02/politics/michigan-attorney-general-files-suit-to-stop-recount/|date=December 4, 2016|access-date= December 4, 2016|publisher=CNN}} On the same day in Wisconsin a U.S. District Judge denied an emergency halt to the recount, allowing it to continue until a December 9, 2016, hearing.{{cite news|first=Patrick|last=Marley|title=Federal judge denies quick halt to Wisconsin recount|date=December 2, 2016|access-date= December 4, 2016|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/12/02/trump-supporters-file-suit-stop-wisconsin-recount/94805946/|newspaper=USA Today}} On December 3, 2016, Stein dropped the state recount case in Pennsylvania, citing "the barriers to verifying the vote in Pennsylvania are so pervasive and that the state court system is so ill-equipped to address this problem that we must seek federal court intervention."{{cite news|first=Steph|last=Solis|title=Jill Stein to take Pennsylvania recount to federal courts|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/12/04/stein-drops-state-case-pennsylvania-recount-aims-federal-court/94946560/|date=December 4, 2016|access-date= December 4, 2016|newspaper=USA Today}}

Shortly after midnight on December 5, 2016, U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith ordered Michigan election officials to hand-recount 4.8 million ballots, rejecting all concerns for the cost of the recount. Goldsmith wrote in his order: "As emphasized earlier, budgetary concerns are not sufficiently significant to risk the disenfranchisement of Michigan's nearly 5 million voters".{{cite news|first=Robert|last=Snell|title=Judge orders Michigan presidential recount to begin at noon Monday|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/12/04/judge-holds-sunday-hearing-michigan-recount-suit/94952646/|date=December 5, 2016|access-date= December 5, 2016|newspaper=The Detroit News}} Meanwhile, however, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that Stein, who placed fourth, had no chance of winning and was not an "aggrieved candidate" and ordered the Michigan election board to reject her petition for a recount.{{cite news|title=The Latest: Federal Judge Sets Hearing on Michigan Recount|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/latest-michigans-largest-county-starts-recount-44009466|date=December 7, 2016 |access-date=December 7, 2016|work=ABC News}} On December 7, 2016, Judge Goldsmith halted the Michigan recount.{{cite news|first=Max|last=Blau|title=Michigan Recounted Halted|url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politics/michigan-election-recount/|date=December 8, 2016|access-date=December 10, 2016|publisher=CNN News}} Stein filed an appeal with the Michigan Supreme Court, losing her appeal in a 3–2 decision on December 9, 2016.{{cite news|first=Phil|last=Helsel|title=Michigan Supreme Court Denies Jill Stein Recount Appeal|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/michigan-supreme-court-denies-jill-stein-recount-appeal-n694251|date=November 9, 2016|access-date= December 10, 2016|work=NBC News}}

On December 12, 2016, U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond rejected Stein's request for a Pennsylvania recount.{{cite magazine|first=Debra|last=Weiss|title=Federal judge rejects Jill Stein's Pennsylvania recount bid, says it was 'later than last minute'|url=http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/federal_judge_rejects_jill_steins_pennsylvania_recount_bid_says_it_was_late/|date=December 13, 2016|access-date= December 21, 2016|magazine=ABA Journal}}

In May 2018, The Daily Beast reported that approximately $1 million of the original $7.3 million had yet to be spent and that there remained uncertainty about what precisely the money had been spent on.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-happened-to-jill-steins-recount-millions|title=What Happened to Jill Stein's Recount Millions?|last=Davis|first=Charles|date=May 30, 2018|work=The Daily Beast|access-date=May 30, 2018|language=en}}

On December 18, 2017, The Washington Post reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee was looking at Stein's presidential campaign for potential "collusion with the Russians."{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-intel-committee-investigating-jill-stein-campaign-for-collusion-with-the-russians/2017/12/18/ea7f3f1a-e44b-11e7-833f-155031558ff4_story.html|title=Senate intel committee investigating Jill Stein campaign for 'collusion with the Russians'|last=Demirjian|first=Karoun|date=December 18, 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=December 19, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}} The Stein campaign released a statement stating it would work with investigators.{{cite web|url=https://www.jill2016.com/for_immediate_release_monday_december_18_2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222050915/https://www.jill2016.com/for_immediate_release_monday_december_18_2007|url-status=usurped|archive-date=December 22, 2017|title=Complying with Senate Committee request, Stein urges safeguarding elections from interference – while cautioning against the targeting of political opposition.|website=Jill Stein 2016}} The Committee cleared Stein of any collusion with Russia.{{cite web |last1=Caputo |first1=Marc A. |title='Useful Idiot for Russia': DNC Decides to Go Off on Jill Stein |url=https://www.thebulwark.com/p/useful-idiot-for-putin-russia-dnc-jill-stein-green-party |website=www.thebulwark.com |access-date=28 September 2024 |language=en |date=3 September 2024}}

In December 2018, two reports commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee found that the Russian-linked Internet Research Agency boosted and promoted Stein's candidacy through social media posts, targeting African-American voters in particular.{{cite web|last=Windrem|first=Robert|url= https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-are-senate-russia-investigators-interested-jill-stein-n831261|title= Senate Russia investigators are interested in Jill Stein|website= NBC News|date= December 20, 2017|accessdate= September 15, 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/us/politics/jill-stein-russian-election-interference-senate-intelligence.html|title= Senate Investigators Scrutinize Another Presidential Candidate: Jill Stein|website= The New York Times|accessdate= September 15, 2024}}{{cite web|url= https://apnews.com/general-news-b003a8a686974ea1b8f0037fb3f8c7ea|title= Senate Russia probe looking into 2016 candidate Jill Stein|website= Associated Press|date= December 19, 2017|accessdate= September 15, 2024}}{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42417287|title= US Green Party's Jill Stein targeted in Russia inquiry|website= BBC|date= December 19, 2017|accessdate= September 15, 2024}} After consulting the two reports, NBC News reporter Robert Windrem said that nothing suggested Stein knew about the operation.{{Cite web|author=Robert Windrem|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166|title=Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump, reports say|website=NBC News|date=December 22, 2018 |language=en|access-date=December 30, 2018}} It also highlighted several independent analyses that "add to the growing body of evidence that the Russians worked to boost the Stein campaign as part of the effort to siphon support away from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and tilt the election to Trump." Stein was also criticized for sitting at the same table as Russian president Vladimir Putin at the RT 10th anniversary gala in Moscow. Stein said she had attended the event in the hope of speaking to Putin about his policy in Syria, climate change and other issues.{{Cite web |last=Licon |first=Adriana Gomez |date=2023-11-10 |title=Jill Stein launches a long-shot Green Party presidential campaign, bringing back memories of 2016 |url=https://apnews.com/article/jill-stein-running-for-president-2024-f4d6ab729c94f413d5678e68ae4718d4 |access-date=2024-08-25 |website=AP News |language=en |quote=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.}} Stein, who has regularly appeared on RT and Sputnik during her 2012 and 2016 campaigns, announced her decision to form an exploratory committee to run in 2016 during the U.S.-based RT program "Redacted Tonight" in February 2015. NBC said there was no evidence in the reports to indicate that Stein was aware any influence operation. NBC stated that Stein had been criticised for "her support of international policies that mirror Russian foreign policy goals." Stein regularly appeared on RT.{{Cite news |last=Schreckinger |first=Ben |date=June 20, 2017 |title=Jill Stein Isn't Sorry |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/20/jill-stein-green-party-no-regrets-2016-215281/ |work=Politico}}{{Cite web |date=2018-12-22 |title=Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump, reports say |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166 |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=NBC News |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=June 20, 2020 |title=Jill Stein cost Hillary dearly in 2016. Democrats are still writing off her successor. |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/20/democrats-shrug-off-potential-green-party-spoiler-in-2020-329170 |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=POLITICO |language=en}}

In an official statement, Stein called one of the reports, the one authored by New Knowledge, "dangerous new McCarthyism" and asked the Senate Committee to retract it, saying the firm was "sponsored by partisan Democratic funders" and had itself been shown to have been "directly involved in election interference" in the 2017 US Senate election in Alabama.{{cite web|title=Stein calls on Senate Committee to retract election interference report by cybersecurity firm caught interfering in US election|url=https://www.jill2016.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207071926/http://www.jill2016.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=February 7, 2015|date=December 26, 2017|author=Jill Stein}}

By July 31, 2018, Stein had spent slightly under $100,000 of the recount money on legal representation linked to the Senate probe into election interference.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-recount-cash-pays-for-her-russia-legal-defense|title=Jill Stein's Recount Cash Pays for Her Russia Legal Defense|last=Davis|first=Charles|date=July 13, 2018|access-date=August 5, 2019|language=en}} In March 2019, Stein's spokesman David Cobb said she had "fully cooperated with the Senate inquiry."{{cite news|last1=Stein|first1=Sam|last2=Woodruff|first2=Betsy|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-stein-cooperated-with-congressional-russia-investigators|title=Jill Stein Cooperated With Congressional Russia Investigators|work=The Daily Beast|date=March 29, 2019|access-date=July 17, 2019}}

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Stein originally supported activist and scholar Cornel West's 2024 presidential campaign under the Green Party and became his campaign manager.{{Cite web |last1=McKend |first1=Eva |last2=Krieg |first2=Gregory |date=June 22, 2023 |title=Jill Stein enlisted to help build Cornel West's third-party presidential campaign |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/jill-stein-cornel-west-president-2024/index.html |access-date=November 9, 2023 |website=CNN |language=en}} After West withdrew his bid for the Green presidential nomination in order to instead continue his run for the presidency as an independent, Stein retracted her endorsement for West and said the Green Party would find a nominee elsewhere. She also hinted at a possible bid of her own.{{Cite tweet |title=Breaking – Stein & Baraka wish Dr. West well, affirm support for a strong Green campaign Boston – Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, previously advisors to the West campaign, today wished Cornel West well in his upcoming independent presidential campaign, in the following joint statement: "As colleagues who helped persuade Dr. West to pursue the Green nomination, we appreciate the good faith effort he has made over the past four months. Running solo, however, may better suit his long standing role as a fiercely independent voice of moral authority. While we share Dr. West's formidable commitment to peace and justice, we are respectfully parting ways at this juncture, as we are committed to building a±n independent people-powered party as an indispensable vehicle for challenging empire and oligarchy for the long haul. "In light of Dr. West's decision to run independently, we are in discussion with several former candidates about potentially entering the race to carry the Green Party's anti-war, pro-worker, climate emergency agenda into this critical election. "With the Democratic Party now leading the charge for war and censorship, betraying workers on the rail strike and dropping the $15 dollar minimum wage, outdoing Trump in new fossil fuel projects on public lands, and voluntarily resuming crushing student debt payments when people are barely scraping by paycheck to paycheck – for all these reasons and more, we need an independent, corporate-free people's party more than ever. "In deciding to run as an independent, the West campaign leaves behind the ballot lines they would have had access to, as well as the guidance of experienced ballot access staff and Green volunteers familiar with the process in most of the 50 states. We expect this will be a formidable obstacle in the coming months. "Though Dr. West won't be running with our team, he is offering an inspired, courageous example to voters and candidates alike. We believe he is making an immeasurable contribution to the 2024 election, and for that we are deeply grateful. Given our similar visions and agendas, we will continue to look for synergy on the road ahead."|user=DrJillStein|number=1709982608904339651 |access-date=November 9, 2023 |website=X (formerly Twitter) |language=en}}{{Overly detailed inline|date=October 2024}}{{Primary source inline|date=October 2024}}

On November 9, 2023, Stein announced her third bid for president.{{Cite web |last=Astor |first=Maggie |date=November 9, 2023 |title=Jill Stein Announces Third-Party Bid for President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/us/politics/jill-stein-presidential-bid.html |website=The New York Times}} Having also run in 2016, Stein was described by Robert Tait as having the potential to erode Joe Biden's support in the general election among left-wing voters.{{Cite news|last=Tait|first=Robert|date=November 22, 2023 |title=Jill Stein formally launches 2024 White House bid as Green party candidate |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/21/jill-stein-2024-presidential-election-green-party-candidate |access-date=January 12, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite news |last=Trudo |first=Hanna |date=November 12, 2023 |title=Jill Stein adds to Biden's 2024 problems |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4304775-jill-stein-2024-biden-manchin/ |access-date=January 13, 2024 |work=The Hill |language=en-US}}

When announcing her candidacy, Stein described the two-party political system as "broken." She called for prioritizing a "pro-worker, anti-war, climate emergency agenda" in the upcoming election, aiming to bring these issues to the forefront of national discourse.

Stein has also been an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Following the 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel, she condemned Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip and criticized President Joe Biden for what she described as a failure to intervene against what she termed Israel's "genocidal rampage."staff. (2024). Jill Stein | 2024 presidential candidate. Washington Post. Retrieved from https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/jill-stein-2024 Jill Stein's campaign platform advocates for what they describe as a comprehensive approach to addressing social and economic inequality through the establishment of an Economic Bill of Rights. This includes the rights to a living wage, housing, healthcare, childcare, education, retirement, healthy food, and clean water.{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein Announces Third-Party Bid for President |website=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/us/politics/jill-stein-presidential-bid.html |access-date=2024-11-13}}

The 2024 campaign, like Stein's 2016 campaign, was described by some as a possible spoiler campaign, which may benefit Donald Trump.{{Cite news |last=Blake |first=Aaron |date=2024-08-26 |title=Analysis {{!}} RFK Jr.'s exit pushes the 2024 spoiler effect to the left |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/26/rfk-minor-party-candidates-spoiler-effect/ |access-date=2024-08-27 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite news |last=Siddiqui |first=Sabrina |date=September 21, 2024 |title=Republicans Boost Jill Stein as Potential Harris Spoiler |url=https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/jill-stein-republican-support-harris-voters-5a194ebf |work=The Wall Street Journal}}{{Cite news |last=Doherty |first=Erin |date=September 27, 2024 |title=How Jill Stein could derail Democrats again |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/09/27/jill-stein-democrats-2024-republicans |work=Axios}} Stein said "Candidates have to earn your vote, they don’t own your vote."{{cite web |last1=Markoe |first1=Lauren |title=Jill Stein says war in Gaza 'makes any genocide pale by comparison' — and then says she misspoke |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/648351/jill-stein-genocide-gaza-misspoke-cspan/ |website=The Forward |language=en |date=27 August 2024}}

In September 2024, Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio Cortez criticized Stein saying, "'All you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you're just showing up once every four years to do that, you're not serious.'" Stein responded that Green candidates had won "1400 elections" and that the Democratic Party had worked to exclude third-party candidates from ballots and presidential debates.{{Cite web |last=Barber |first=Rachel |title=Jill Stein hits back after AOC says her bids for the White House are 'predatory' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/03/aoc-jill-stein-predatory/75053510007/|date=September 3, 2024 |access-date=2024-09-27 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}{{Cite magazine |last=Rothpletz |first=Peter |date=September 17, 2024 |title=Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/186004/green-jill-stein-2024-election |access-date=2024-09-27 |magazine=The New Republic |issn=0028-6583}}{{Cite magazine |last=Guzman |first=Chad de |date=2024-09-04 |title=What to Know About AOC's Feud With Jill Stein and the Green Party |url=https://time.com/7017339/not-serious-jill-stein-aoc-green-party-election-democrats-war/ |access-date=2024-09-27 |magazine=TIME |language=en}} Peter Rothpletz in The New Republic criticized Stein for the decline in Green party membership from 319,000 in 2004 to 234,000 in 2024 and for arguing in a 2016 interview that Hillary Clinton was a greater threat than Donald Trump. Rothpletz also referred to criticism of Stein by members of the Democratic Party that she defended members of the African People's Socialist Party, who were indicted for being part of a "malign influence campaign" on behalf of the Russian government, and that she did not know how many members were in the House of Representatives.

In her 2024 presidential campaign announcement video, Stein proposed an "economic bill of rights" that regard employment, health care, housing, food and education as rights.

In 2015, Stein was critical of official employment numbers, saying that unemployment figures were "designed to essentially cover up unemployment," and that the real unemployment rate for that year was around 12–13%.{{cite news |date=March 24, 2016 |title=Jill Stein on Budget & Economy |publisher=On The Issues |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_+_Economy.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411104057/http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_%2B_Economy.htm |archive-date=April 11, 2016}}{{cite magazine |last=Weissmann |first=Jordan |date=July 27, 2016 |title=Jill Stein's Ideas Are Terrible. She Is Not the Savior the Left Is Looking For. |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/07/27/jill_stein_is_not_the_savior_the_left_is_looking_for.html |magazine=Slate}}

Stein called the Wall Street bailout wasteful.{{Cite web |last=Reilly |first=Peter J |title=Not Your Average Jill Stein Interview |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2012/10/03/not-your-average-jill-stein-interview/#1d02125f6575 |access-date=August 1, 2016 |website=Forbes}} In 2012, Stein opposed the raising of the debt ceiling, saying that the U.S. should instead raise taxes on the wealthy and make military spending cuts to offset the debt.{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Budget & Economy |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Budget_+_Economy.htm |access-date=July 27, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

In 2016, Stein said that she supported a new 0.5% financial transactions tax on the sale of stocks, bonds, and derivatives, and an increase in the estate tax to "at least" 55% on inheritances over $3 million.Eugene Scott, [https://money.cnn.com/2016/08/17/news/jill-stein-economic-policy/ Where the Green Party's Jill Stein stands on jobs, taxes and more], CNN Money (August 17, 2016).

During her 2012 and 2016 presidential runs, Stein called for "nationalizing" and "democratiz[ing]" the Federal Reserve, placing it under a Federal Monetary Authority in the Treasury Department and ending its independence.{{Cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2012/10/26/if_only_we_could_vote_for_a_third_party/|title=If only it made sense to vote for a third party|last=Olear|first=Greg|website=Salon|access-date=July 27, 2016|date=October 26, 2012}}{{cite web|first1=Eugene|last1=Scott|url=https://money.cnn.com/2016/08/17/news/jill-stein-economic-policy/|title=Where the Green Party's Jill Stein stands on jobs, taxes and more|website=CNN Money|date=August 17, 2016|quote="The candidate also wants to nationalize the Federal Reserve banks and place them under a Federal Monetary Authority within the Treasury Department."}}

She supported the creation of nonprofit publicly owned banks, pledging to create such entities at the federal and state levels.

Stein opposes charter schools and has been critical of the Common Core, saying that teachers rather than "corporate contractors" should be responsible for education.{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Education |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Education.htm |access-date=June 9, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

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In a question-and-answer session, Stein voiced concern about wireless internet (Wi-Fi) in schools, saying, "We should not be subjecting kids' brains especially to that{{nbsp}}... We don't follow that issue in this country, but in Europe, where they do, they have good precautions around wireless, maybe not good enough."{{Cite web |author=Eli Watkins |date=August 16, 2016 |title=Anti-science claims dog Green Party's Jill Stein |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/jill-stein-vaccine-gmo-science/index.html |access-date=October 25, 2016 |website=CNN}} Stein later said, "we should listen to what scientific experts are saying and take precautions about how much we expose young children to WiFi and cellphones until we know more about the long-term health effects of this type of low-level radiation."{{Cite news |last=Spielberg |first=Ben |title=The media — and many Democrats — need to stop attacking Jill Stein unfairly |newspaper=Vox |url=https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/10/24/13360512/jill-stein-media-unfair-democrats-treatment|date=October 24, 2016 |access-date=October 25, 2016}}

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times editorial board, Stein clarified that her statements on Wi-Fi were "not a policy statement" and that attention to her statement on Wi-Fi was "a sign of a gotcha political system".{{Cite web |last=Times |first=Los Angeles |date=September 6, 2016 |title=Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-jill-stein-transcript-20160906-snap-story.html |access-date=October 25, 2016 |website=Los Angeles Times}}

Stein favors canceling all student loan debt, saying that it could be done using quantitative easing, similar to the Wall Street bailout, without raising taxes. In this plan, the Federal Reserve could buy up student loans and agree not to collect the debt, thereby effectively canceling it.{{Cite web |last=DiChristopher |first=Tom |date=August 10, 2016 |title=Green Party candidate Jill Stein says we need a jobs program like the 'New Deal' |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/10/jill-stein-says-we-need-an-emergency-job-program-like-the-new-deal.html |access-date=August 30, 2016 |website=CNBC}}

Stein is critical of the two-party system, and argues for ranked-choice voting as a favorable alternative to "lesser evilism".{{cite web|last1=Kolhatkar|first1=Sonali|title=The Green Party's Dr. Jill Stein on Democracy & Ranked Choice Voting|url=https://lumpenproletariat.org/2016/03/21/the-green-partys-dr-jill-stein-on-democracy-ranked-choice-voting/|website=Lumpenproletariat|access-date=August 16, 2016|date=March 21, 2016}}{{cite web|last1=Speri|first1=Alice|title=The Two-Party System is the Worst Case Scenario: An Interview with the Green Party's Jill Stein/|url=https://theintercept.com/2016/07/29/the-two-party-system-is-the-worst-case-scenario-an-interview-with-the-green-partys-jill-stein/|website=The Intercept|access-date=August 16, 2016|date=July 29, 2016}} Stein has advocated for campaign finance reform.{{Cite web |title=Meet Jill |url=https://www.jillstein2024.com/meet_jill |access-date=2024-11-13 |website=Stein / Ware 2024 |language=en}}

Stein says that climate change is a "national emergency" and calling it "a threat greater than World War II."{{Cite news |title=Climate change, erasing student debt top policies for Stein |publisher=Yahoo News |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-erasing-student-debt-top-policies-stein-135111430--election.html |url-status=dead |access-date=November 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107092511/https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-erasing-student-debt-top-policies-stein-135111430--election.html |archive-date=November 7, 2016}}

Fossil fuels

Stein supports a national ban on fracking on the grounds that "cutting-edge science now suggests fracking is every bit as bad as coal".{{Cite web |date=September 6, 2016 |title=Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference |url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-jill-stein-transcript-20160906-snap-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Energy & Oil |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Energy_+_Oil.htm |access-date=June 9, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}

Nuclear power

Stein has spoken against nuclear energy, saying it "is dirty, dangerous and expensive, and should be precluded on all of those counts."{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Implications

In 2016, Stein has argued that the cost of transitioning to 100% renewable energy by 2030 would in part be recouped by healthcare savings, citing studies that predict 200,000 fewer premature deaths as well as less illness. She has noted that when Cuba lost Soviet oil subsidies it experienced plummeting diabetes (down 50%), CVD (down 30%) and all-cause (down 18%) death rates.

At a rally in 2016, she criticized the United States' "expanding wars", saying that the United States had "already" been bombing seven countries.[http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/oct/21/jill-stein/jill-stein-green-party-candidate-correct-about-us-/ Jill Stein, Green Party candidate, correct about U.S. bombing seven countries]. PolitiFact. October 21, 2016.

In 2012, Stein favored maintaining current levels of international aid spending.{{Cite web |title=The Voter's Self Defense System |url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/political-courage-test/35775/jill-stein/ |access-date=July 27, 2016 |website=Project Vote Smart |language=en-US}}{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Stein is a long-time supporter of Palestine.{{cite web |last1=Harb |first1=Ali |title=US candidate Jill Stein considering vocal Palestine advocates for VP spot |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/3/us-candidate-jill-stein-considering-vocal-palestine-advocates-for-vp-spot |website=Al Jazeera |access-date=1 October 2024 |language=en |date=3 August 2024}} Her 2012 presidential campaign opposed the occupation of the West Bank by Israel and called for a boycott of Israel, which it described as an apartheid state. She is in favor of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. In 2016, she said the US should stop providing aid to Israel, which she said was committing war crimes and human rights violations.

Stein said that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the 2024 Gaza war and that both Democrats and Republicans are enabling the genocide by providing military aid to Israel while de-funding the UNRWA.

When asked in September 2016 whether she had a "position on whether a two-state solution is a better solution than a one-state solution", Stein answered by describing limitations of a two-state solution, specifically calling out the geographical fragmentation of Palestine, but that she is "not committing one way or the other at this point."

Stein wishes to cut U.S. military spending by at least 50%.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Homeland_Security.htm|title=Jill Stein on Homeland Security|website=www.ontheissues.org|access-date=June 9, 2016}}{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Stein wants to remove U.S. nuclear weapons from foreign countries.{{cite news |date=October 30, 2016 |title=For Stein, climate change and erasing student debt are high-priority |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/stein-climate-change-student-debt |work=PBS}} Stein has been sharply critical of the use of drones, calling them a human rights violation and an "illegal assassination program" saying that they are "off target nine times out of ten."{{cite news |author=Gersh Kuntzman |title=Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein slams the system, law-breaking Obama, 'Frankenstein' Trump and 'corporate' Hillary Clinton |newspaper=New York Daily News |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/green-party-candidate-slams-obama-trump-clinton-article-1.2640149 |access-date=July 29, 2016}}

According to Stein, the United States should use force only when there is "good evidence that we are under imminent threat of actual attack". When asked by the Los Angeles Times editorial board whether that standard would have prevented US involvement in World War II, Stein answered, "I don't want to revisit history or try to reinterpret it, you know, but starting from where we are now, given the experience that we've had in the last, you know, since 2001, which has been an utter disaster, I don't think it's benefited us." Stein criticized the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S.-led War in Afghanistan and U.S. involvement in the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen, stating: "We are party to the war crimes that are being committed by Saudi Arabia, who’s using cluster bombs made by us. And we’ve supplied $100 billion worth of weapons to the Saudis in the last decade...It’s against our own laws. The Leahy bill requires that we not sell weapons to human rights abusers."{{cite news |last=Pesca |first=Mike |date=October 19, 2016 |title=We Are on the Verge of a Nuclear War |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/10/jill-stein-thinks-nuclear-war-is-less-likely-under-trump.html |work=Slate}}

When asked whether the US should withdraw from all of its mutual defense treaties, Stein answered that the treaties need to "be looked at one by one", mentioning NATO in particular.

Stein accused NATO member Turkey of supporting Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, saying that "we need to convince Turkey, our ally in theory, to close its border to the movement of jihadi militias across its border to reinforce ISIS."

In a July 2015 interview, Stein said that NATO "pursued a policy of basically encircling Russia—including the threat of nukes and drones and so on." She was asked whether the US should aid the Ukrainian government following the 2014 revolution, to which she responded by advocating for "establishing a neutral Ukraine that would allow Russia to not feel under attack". She said that the US "helped foment a coup against a democratically-elected government", contending that the post-revolution government contained "ultra-nationalists and ex-Nazis".{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Foreign Policy |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Foreign_Policy.htm |access-date=June 9, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

In October 2016, Stein characterized the conflict as "the Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse, on steroids". She said that Russia had been "surrounded" with NATO assets.

In a 2024 interview by Mehdi Hasan, Stein was asked whether she considers Vladimir Putin a "war criminal who should be on trial".{{Cite web |last=Hasan |first=Mehdi |author-link=Mehdi Hasan |date=2024-09-19 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Mehdi Interviews Jill Stein |url=https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-mehdi-interviews-jill-stein |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=Zeteo |at=Timestamp 44:06 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=McHardy |first=Martha |date=2024-09-17 |title=Jill Stein's response to Putin being labeled 'war criminal' goes viral |url=https://www.newsweek.com/jill-stein-vladimir-putin-war-criminal-1954965 |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=Newsweek |language=en}} Hasan juxtaposed her past remarks regarding Putin, Bashar al-Assad and Benjamin Netanyahu, repeatedly asking Stein why there had been no remarks from her characterizing Putin or Assad as a war criminal. She referred to John F. Kennedy, responding, "if you want to be an effective world leader, you don't start by name-calling and hurling epithets." She then claimed that there had been no decision by the International Criminal Court regarding Putin. Three days later in response to the interview, Stein's Twitter account posted a statement describing Putin as a war criminal.{{Cite web |last=Ostiller |first=Nate |date=2024-09-20 |title=US Green Party candidate Stein calls Putin 'war criminal,' clarifying stance after controversial interview |url=https://kyivindependent.com/us-green-party-candidate-stein-calls-putin-war-criminal-clarifying-stance-after-controversial-interview/ |access-date=2024-09-21 |website=The Kyiv Independent |language=en}}

On the eve of the 15-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks, Stein called for "a comprehensive and independent inquiry into the attacks," saying that the 9/11 Commission Report contained many "omissions and distortions."{{Cite web |last=Neidig |first=Harper |date=September 10, 2016 |title=Jill Stein calls for new 9/11 investigation |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/295266-stein-calls-for-new-9-11-investigation/ |newspaper=The Hill}} The next day, she said: "I think I would not have assassinated Osama bin Laden but would have captured him and brought him to trial."{{Cite web |author=Kathie Obradovich |date=September 12, 2016 |title=Jill Stein in Iowa: I would not have assassinated Osama bin Laden |url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/kathie-obradovich/2016/09/11/jill-stein-iowa-would-not-have-assassinated-osama-bin-laden/90205354/ |newspaper=Des Moines Register}}

Stein told CNN that she attended the conference to advocate for a ceasefire in the Middle East and to tell Russia to stop its military incursion in Syria.{{cite news |date=October 19, 2019 |title=Jill Stein slams Clinton's accusations |publisher=CNN |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/19/politics/jill-stein-responds-clinton-gabbard-russian-asset-cnntv/index.html}}

East Asia

Stein does not think the U.S. should become involved in territorial disputes in the South China Sea.{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Brexit

Immediately after the UK voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, Stein came out in support of Brexit. Stein posted a celebratory statement on her website, saying the vote was "a victory for those who believe in the right of self-determination and who reject the pro-corporate, austerity policies of the political elites in the EU ... [and] a rejection of the European political elite and their contempt for ordinary people."{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-case-against-jill-stein-w436362|title=The Case Against Jill Stein|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=September 2016|access-date=September 2, 2016|archive-date=July 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730223809/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-case-against-jill-stein-w436362|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |last=Rosenberg |first=Yair |date=August 10, 2016 |title=Friends Don't Let Friends Vote for Jill Stein |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/210549/friends-dont-let-friends-vote-for-jill-stein |access-date=August 15, 2016 |publisher=Tablet}} She later changed the statement (without indicating so), removing words like "victory" and adding the line, "Before the Brexit vote I agreed with Jeremy Corbyn, Caroline Lucas and the UK Greens who supported staying in the EU but working to fix it."{{Cite web|url=http://www.forwardprogressives.com/green-party-jill-stein-busted-cover-up-praise-bigotry-driven-brexit/|title=Green Party Hero Jill Stein Busted Trying to Cover Up Her Praise of Bigotry-Driven Brexit|date=June 27, 2016|language=en-US|access-date=June 30, 2016}}

Cuba

After the death of Cuban former communist leader Fidel Castro, Stein tweeted that "Fidel Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire."{{Cite journal|last=Meyer|first=Ken|date=November 27, 2016|title=Jill Stein Gets Predictable Backlash After Calling Castro a 'Symbol of the Struggle for Justice'|url=http://www.mediaite.com/online/jill-stein-gets-predictable-backlash-after-calling-castro-a-symbol-of-the-struggle-for-justice/|journal=Mediaite|language=en}}

Stein is in favor of replacing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with a "Medicare for All" healthcare system{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}} and has said that it is an "illusion" that the former is a "step in the right direction" toward single-payer healthcare.{{Cite web |title=Jill Stein on Health Care |url=http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Health_Care.htm |access-date=June 9, 2016 |website=www.ontheissues.org}}{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Stein has been critical of subsidizing unhealthy food products and of "agri-business" for its advertisements encouraging unhealthy eating. She has said that due to agri-business, Greeks no longer have the healthy diets they once did.{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

GMOs and pesticides

Stein supports GMO labeling, a moratorium on new GMOs, and the phasing out of existing GMO foods, unless independent research "shows decisively that GMOs are not harmful to human health or ecosystems".{{Cite web |author=Eli Watkins |date=August 16, 2016 |title=Anti-science claims dog Green Party's Jill Stein |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/jill-stein-vaccine-gmo-science/index.html |access-date=August 20, 2016 |website=CNN}} Speaking of the health effects of foods derived from GM crops, she has said: "And I can tell you as a physician with special interest and long history in environmental health, the quality of studies that we have are not what you need. We should have a moratorium until they are proven safe, and they have not been proven safe in the way that they are used."

Commentators have criticized Stein's statements about GMOs, writing that they contradict the scientific consensus, which is that existing GM foods are no less safe than foods made from conventional crops.* {{cite news |last=Sosa |first=Chris |date=August 9, 2016 |title=Jill Stein's Dangerous Anti-Science Campaign |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jill-steins-dangerous-anti-science-campaign_us_57a92f2ce4b02251db3ff3a8 |access-date=August 23, 2016}}

• {{Cite news |last=Ehrenfreund |first=Max |title=What Jill Stein, the Green presidential candidate, wants to do to America |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/02/what-jill-stein-the-green-presidential-candidate-wants-to-do-to-america/|date=August 2, 2016 |access-date=August 3, 2016}}
• {{Cite news |last=Corneliussen |first=Steven T. |date=August 18, 2016 |title=Media coverage thin for presidential candidates' science awareness and views |journal=Physics Today |issue=8 |doi=10.1063/PT.5.8185}}
• {{Cite news |last=Uscinski |first=Joseph |date=August 22, 2016 |title=The 5 Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theories of 2016 |publisher=Politico |url=http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/conspiracy-theories-2016-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-214183 |access-date=August 31, 2016}}
• {{Cite news |last=Stilgoe |first=Jack |date=August 17, 2016 |title=How to think about the risks of mobile phones and Wi-Fi |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/aug/17/how-to-think-about-the-risks-of-mobile-phones-and-wi-fi |access-date=August 31, 2016}}
• {{Cite news |last=McGuire |first=Kim |date=August 5, 2016 |title=Tough sell in Texas: climate change, GMOs top Green Party platform |newspaper=Houston Chronicle |url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/us/article/Tough-sell-in-Texas-climate-change-GMOs-top-9125759.php |access-date=August 31, 2016}}
• {{Cite news |last=D'Ammassa |first=Algernon |date=August 7, 2016 |title=Greens, Libertarians need to be ready for media glare |newspaper=USA Today/Las Cruces Sun-News |url=http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/opinion/2016/08/07/greens-libertarians-need-ready-media-glare/88377756/ |access-date=August 31, 2016}} Among the critics was Jordan Weissmann, Slate's business and economics editor, who wrote in July 2016: "Never mind that scientists have studied GMOs extensively and found no signs of danger to human health—Stein would like medical researchers to prove a negative."

Vaccinations and regulations

In response to a Twitter question about whether vaccines cause autism, Stein first answered, "there is no evidence that autism is caused by vaccines," then revised her tweet to "I'm not aware of evidence linking autism with vaccines."{{Cite web |last=Peyser |first=Eve |date=August 2016 |title=Jill Stein Deletes Tweet That Says "There's No Evidence That Autism Is Caused By Vaccines" |url=https://gizmodo.com/jill-stein-deletes-tweet-that-says-theres-no-evidence-1784624949?rev=1470011982682 |access-date=August 1, 2016 |website=Gizmodo |language=en-US}}

Dan Kahan, a professor at Yale who has studied public perception of science, says that it is dangerous for candidates to equivocate on vaccines, "Because the attitudes about vaccines are pretty much uniform across the political spectrum, it doesn't seem like a great idea for any candidate to be anti-vaccine. The modal view is leave the freaking system alone."{{Cite web |last=Meyer |first=Robinson |date=August 2016 |title=An Anti-Vaxer in the White House? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/an-anti-vaxer-in-the-white-house/493916/ |access-date=August 2, 2016 |website=The Atlantic |language=en-US}} Emily Willingham, scientist and contributor at Forbes, described Stein's statements on vaccines as "using dog whistle terms and equivocations bound to appeal to the 'antivaccine' constituency".{{Cite web|last=Willingham|first=Emily |title=Jill Stein Sort Of Answers The Autism-Vaccine Question And No One Is Happy |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/08/01/jill-stein-sort-of-answers-the-autism-vaccine-question/#7b6f3bd441a8|date=August 1, 2016 |access-date=August 1, 2016 |website=Forbes}}

In an interview with The Washington Post, Stein stated that "vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases," and said that "[t]here were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination schedule meant, the toxic substances like mercury which used to be rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be addressed. I think some of them at least have been addressed. I don't know if all of them have been addressed."{{Cite news |title=Jill Stein on vaccines: People have 'real questions' |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/07/29/jill-stein-on-vaccines-people-have-real-questions/|date=July 29, 2016 |access-date=July 29, 2016}}{{Cite web |last=Yuhas |first=Alan |date=July 30, 2016 |title=Green party candidate Jill Stein accused of 'anti-vaxxer' sympathies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/30/jill-stein-green-party-vaccinations-anti-vaxxers |access-date=July 30, 2016 |website=The Guardian}}

In July 2018 Washington Post interview, Stein said that vaccines should be approved by a board that people can trust, and "people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration," or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence." According to The Guardian, eleven members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee are medical doctors who work at hospitals and universities, and two work at pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur US. In response, Stein said that "Monsanto lobbyists help run the day in those agencies and are in charge of approving what food isn't safe".

Black Americans

Stein has deplored what she and others identify as the structural racism of the U.S. judicial and prison system. On Juneteenth in 2016, Stein called for reparations for slavery.{{cite magazine |last=Foran |first=Clare |date=July 28, 2016 |title=Can Jill Stein Lead a Revolution? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/jill-stein-third-party-bernie-sanders/493292/ |magazine=The Atlantic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160729010627/http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/jill-stein-third-party-bernie-sanders/493292/ |archive-date=July 29, 2016}}

Native Americans

Stein has supported the Great Sioux Nation's opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, and in September 2016 joined protesters in North Dakota. In 2016, both Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, faced misdemeanor criminal charges for spray-painting bulldozers at the construction site of the pipeline with "I approve this message" and "decolonization" respectively.Regina Garcia Cano, [http://bigstory.ap.org/article/06976b3e77ae4e8c931e3757fb0a453f/green-party-candidate-faces-charges-graffiti-protest Green Party's Jill Stein charged with trespassing, mischief] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911021527/http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/06976b3e77ae4e8c931e3757fb0a453f/green-party-candidate-faces-charges-graffiti-protest|date=September 11, 2016}}, Associated Press (September 8, 2016).{{cite news|first=Jonah|last=Bromwich|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/08/us/politics/jill-stein-green-party-candidate-is-charged-over-role-in-protest.html|title=Jill Stein, Green Party Candidate, Is Charged Over Role in Pipeline Protest|newspaper=The New York Times'|date=September 7, 2016}}

In 2012, Vote Smart reported that Stein wanted to "slightly decrease" spending on space exploration. She favored maintaining current levels of spending on scientific and medical research. In 2016, Stein said NASA funding should be increased, arguing that by halving the military budget, more money could be directed towards "exploring space instead of destroying planet Earth."{{Additional citation needed|date=October 2024}}

In her 2016 acceptance speech for the Green Party nomination, she called for "end[ing] the war on whistleblowers, and free[ing] the political prisoners ... Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Jeffrey Sterling, and Edward Pinkney".{{cite news |date=August 6, 2016 |title=Transcript: Jill Stein Accepts the Green Party Nomination |url=http://www.jill2016.com/transcript_jill_stein_accepts_the_green_party_nomination |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811194847/http://www.jill2016.com/transcript_jill_stein_accepts_the_green_party_nomination |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 11, 2016 |publisher=Jill 2016}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=September 2024}} She said that she would have Snowden in her Cabinet if elected.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wmnf.org/jill-stein-says-edward-snowden-cabinet-becomes-president/|title=Jill Stein says Edward Snowden would be in her cabinet if she becomes president – WMNF|date=July 13, 2016 |website=WMNF|language=en-US|access-date=July 14, 2016}} In an op-ed on the subject of WikiLeaks, Stein argued that Assange was doing what other journalists should be doing but are not, and added that whistleblowers have been increasingly subject to "character assassination" and prosecution during the Obama administration.{{Cite web |last=Stein |first=Jill |date=August 23, 2016 |title=Opinion: In praise of WikiLeaks |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/technology/292305-exclusive-jill-stein-op-ed-in-praise-of-wikileaks/ |access-date=August 27, 2016 |website=The Hill}}

In 2004, Stein ran for state representative for the 9th Middlesex District, which included portions of Waltham and Lexington. She received 3,911 votes (21.3%) in a three-way race, ahead of the Republican candidate but far behind Democratic incumbent Thomas M. Stanley.{{cite web |title=2004 State Representative General Election: 9th Middlesex District |url=http://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/21697/ |access-date=February 2, 2019 |publisher=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts}}

In 2005, Stein set her sights locally, running for the Lexington Town Meeting, a representative town meeting, the local legislative body in Lexington, Massachusetts. Stein was elected to one of seven seats in Precinct 2.{{cite web |title=Jill E. Stein's Biography Candidate Details |url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/35775/jill-stein |access-date=July 16, 2012 |publisher=votesmart.org}} She finished first of 16 candidates, receiving 539 votes (20.6%). Stein was reelected in 2008, finishing second of 13 vying for eight seats.{{cite web |date=March 3, 2008 |title=Green Party of the United States | Candidate Details |url=http://gp.org/elections/candidates/details.php?record=3840 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120919014920/http://www.gp.org/elections/candidates/details.php?record=3840 |archive-date=September 19, 2012 |access-date=July 16, 2012 |publisher=GP.org}} Stein resigned during her second term to again run for governor.{{cite news |title=Candidate: Jill Stein Green Party nominee |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/candidates/stein |access-date=August 29, 2016 |newspaper=USA Today}}

Stein ran as the Green-Rainbow Party candidate in the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial election with Tony Lorenzen as running mate. She obtained 76,530 votes (3.5%).{{cite web |title=2002 Governor General Election |url=http://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/19968/ |access-date=February 2, 2019 |publisher=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts}}{{Election box begin

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File:Jill Stein Candidacy Rally February 2010.JPG]]On February 8, 2010, Stein announced her second candidacy for governor.

[https://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/02/_jill_stein_a_l.html Stein denounces Beacon Hill "corruption tax" as she announces run for governor] Boston.com, February 8, 2010 Her running mate was Richard P. Purcell, a surgery clerk and ergonomics assessor.{{cite web|url=http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/guvernatorial_candidate_jill_s.html |title=Gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein of Green-Rainbow Party, introduces lieutenant governor candidate Richard P. Purcell, of Holyoke|website=The Republican (Springfield)|date= April 3, 2010|first=Lori|last=Stabile}} In the November 2 general election, Stein finished fourth, receiving 32,895 votes (1.4%), again far behind the incumbent, Democrat Deval Patrick.{{cite web |title=2010 Governor General Election |url=http://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/15310/ |access-date=February 2, 2019 |publisher=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts}}{{election box begin|title=Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2010{{cite web|url=http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/elepdf/rov10.pdf|title=2010 Return of Votes Complete Statistics|date=December 1, 2010|access-date=December 4, 2010|publisher=Massachusetts Elections Division}}}}

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Stein received 469,015 votes (0.36%), the largest number of votes any woman presidential candidate had received up to that point.{{cite encyclopedia|last=Matthias|first= Meg|title=Green Party of the United States|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|date=August 23, 2024|url= https://www.britannica.com/topic/Green-Party-of-the-United-States|access-date=September 4, 2024}}[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2012&off=0&elect=0&f=0 2012 Presidential General Election Results], Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections accessed November 19, 2012 She received 1% or more of the vote in three states: Maine (1.1%), Oregon (1.1%), and Alaska (1.0%).{{Election box begin no change|title=2012 United States presidential election{{cite web|url= https://www.270towin.com/2012_Election/|title= 2012 Presidential Election|website= 270towin|accessdate= September 14, 2024}}}}

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Stein received 1% of the national popular vote in the election.{{Cite web |author=Larry J. Sabato |author-link=Larry J. Sabato |author2=Kyle Kondik |author3=Geoffrey Skelley |date=November 17, 2016 |title=16 For '16: Bite-sized observations on a wild election |url=http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/16-for-16/ |access-date=November 17, 2016 |work=Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball |publisher=University of Virginia Center for Politics}} She finished in 4th place with over 1,457,216 votes (more than the previous three Green tickets combined) and 1.07% of the popular vote.

Stein is married to Richard Rohrer, who is also a physician. They live in Lexington, Massachusetts, and have two sons.{{cite web |title=Interview: Jill Stein (G-R) Candidate for Governor |url=http://archive.boston.com/news/special/politics/2010/governor/jill_stein/ |access-date=May 31, 2016 |website=Boston.com}}{{cite news |url=http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2002/10/2/governor-candidates-bicker-in-debate-republican/?print=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210074805/http://www.thecrimson.harvard.edu/article/2002/10/2/governor-candidates-bicker-in-debate-republican/?print=1 |url-status=dead|archive-date=December 10, 2012 |title=Governor Candidates Bicker in Debate |date=October 2, 2002 |access-date=July 14, 2012 |last=Hirsch |first=David S. |newspaper=The Harvard Crimson }}{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/us/politics/jill-stein-green-party-candidate-and-the-chances-of-making-a-difference.html |title=Party Strains to Be Heard Now That Its Voice Isn't Nader's |date=July 12, 2012|access-date=July 14, 2012 |last=Saulny |first=Susan |newspaper=The New York Times |page=A10}}

In the 1990s, Stein sang in a folk rock duo called Somebody's Sister, alongside Ken Selcer. They released three albums: Somebody's Sister in 1995, Green Skies in 1997 and Circuits to the Sun in 1999.{{cite web | last=Holmes | first=Dave | title=Green Party Presidential Hopeful Jill Stein Had a Folk-Rock Duo in the '90s | website=Esquire | date=2016-08-04 | url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a47338/jill-stein-somebodys-sister-90s-folk-rock/ | access-date=2024-08-21}}{{cite web | last=Romm | first=Jake | title=When Jill Stein Was in a Really Bad Folk Band Called Somebody's Sister | website=The Forward | date=2016-11-30 | url=https://forward.com/culture/355467/when-jill-stein-was-in-a-really-bad-folk-band-called-somebodys-sister/ | access-date=2024-08-21}}

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