The Democrat Party doesn’t know what to do in the closing stretch of the 2024 election.
Polls and early vote data don’t look good.
And Kamala Harris is facing one rebellion that has Democrats sweating bullets.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
In 2016, Donald Trump won Wisconsin by 23,000 votes.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein won 31,000 votes.
Democrats to this day smear Stein as a stooge for Russian President Vladimir Putin who was in the race to siphon off liberal votes from Hillary Clinton.
Eight years later the feud between the Democrat Party and Green Party has Democrats worried sick about a divide on the left allowing Donald Trump to win Wisconsin – and thus the presidency – once again.
Jill Stein made the bad blood clear in an interview with POLITICO accusing Democrats of dirty tricks to try and sabotage her campaign.
“[The DNC wanted] people to infiltrate and spy on our campaign,” Stein said in an interview with POLITICO. “It smells like a rat.”
Democrats had equally harsh words for Stein.
“Nobody needs talking points to know Jill Stein hasn’t won so much as a bingo game in the last decade and if you actually give a damn about people, you organize, build power and infrastructure, and win,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X about Stein’s campaign.
The feud on the left centers on two issues.
One is the Green Party running as the unapologetically pro-Palestinian party.
Greens accuse Kamala Harris and other Democrats of supposedly supporting “genocide” because they haven’t yet demanded Israel unconditionally surrender to Hamas in the Gaza war.
Stein responded to Ocasio-Cortez on X, writing, “you supporting genocide was NOT on my bingo card, but the Democrats have a way of changing people who say they’re going to ‘change the party from the inside.’”
The second point of contention were lawsuits Democrats filed four years ago that successfully kept the Green Party off the ballot.
Joe Biden won Wisconsin by 20,000 votes that November in large part because there was no left-wing third party to provide an alternative.
Democrats waged lawfare against the Green Party again this year, but the Wisconsin State Supreme Court tossed the lawsuit to kick Stein off the ballot.
The Elections Committee Chair for the Wisconsin Greens, Pete Karas, said Democrats need to learn a lesson.
Democrats can’t be the party of defending democracy if they want to kick candidates off the ballot based solely on how they affect the fortunes of the Democrat candidate.
“We need to teach Democrats a lesson,” Karas told POLITICO. “They’re trying to mess with us and mess with democracy, and they have a couple of choices. They can continue to do that and suffer the consequences, or they can pass ranked choice voting so that we actually do have fair elections.”
Polls show Democrats have reason to worry.
A New York Times/Siena poll claimed Wisconsin Democrat Senator Tammy Baldwin held a seven-point lead over Republican challenger Eric Hovde.
But Axios reported the Baldwin campaign’s internal polls showed Baldwin collapsing and Hovde within two points as Republican money pours into the state.
“Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D-Wis.) lead in both public and internal polls has deteriorated, and Republicans are flooding the state with cash to pull off the upset.
“Baldwin leads by just two points in internal Democratic polling, a source familiar with the campaign told Axios. That is much closer than what public polling has shown for months,” Axios officially reported.
The Real Clear Politics polls show Kamala Harris clinging to a 0.8% lead over Trump.
With the Green Party motivated to stick it to Democrats and the internal polling showing momentum on the GOP side the Democrats realize they are in crisis mode in a must-win state.