Green Party candidate Jill Stein is running for president – how many votes is she expected to take away from Democratic incumbent Joe Biden?

Jill Stein, 73, announced Thursday that she is launching a presidential campaign in what will be her third election after successfully rejecting the votes of her fellow candidates in 2012 and 2016.

LeBeau Kpadou – a spokesperson for Stein’s campaign – confirmed that she is once again seeking the Green Party nomination.

In her campaign announcement, the Green Party member accused Democrats of betraying their promises for working people, youth and the climate — and said Republicans aren’t even making such promises in the first place.

The Harvard graduate took a back seat in the 2020 election despite receiving 1,457,216 votes and finishing in fourth place in 2016 – a substantial increase in popularity compared to the 469,015 votes she collected in 2012.

Stein claimed 1.07 percent of the vote in the 2016 election; her fellow Green Party member Howie Hawkins won just 0.2 percent of the vote in 2020.

This could indicate that a weak Green Party candidate has given way to a Biden victory — while Stein, a stronger candidate by the numbers, could have damaging consequences for Biden’s prospects.

Biden’s allies are concerned that a strong third-party candidate could take crucial votes away from the current president and make a Trump presidency more likely.

Democrats blamed Stein for contributing to Clinton’s 2016 defeat by Trump after she pulled votes from the party in key swing states including Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Stein, along with 2016 Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, stole crucial support from Clinton in states where it mattered most.

If all of Stein’s supporters and just half of Johnson’s supporters had voted for Clinton in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the states would have turned blue.

Stein’s campaign could be just as, if not more, damaging to Biden’s reelection aspirations in the upcoming election — especially as support for him is wavering according to recent polls.

A poll released by CNN On November 7, when registered voters were asked who they would support if the presidential election were held today, Trump was in the lead with 49 percent of the vote — while Biden fell behind with just 45 percent.

Polls from July 2016 showed Stein receiving support from three percent of registered voters – one percent less than the election result. The same polls placed Johnson at nine percent – ​​which was also one percent less than the number of votes he received on Election Day.

Although Stein has yet to go to the polls, if she were to receive the same number of voters as she did in 2016, she could pose a threat to Biden’s already dwindling chances of re-election.

Since 2017, California, a strongly blue state, has elected the most Green Party members. But swing states like Pennsylvania (31 officeholders) and Wisconsin (23 officeholders) have also shown support for Green Party politicians.

If Green Party voters in Wisconsin — a red state in the 2020 election — support Stein in 2024, those votes could shift key numbers away from Biden.

Pennsylvania was blue in 2020 — when Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins received just 0.2 percent of the vote — but could see different results with a stronger party candidate.

“Change will not come from the ruling elites. It comes from us, the people,” is the message Stein is sending in her 2024 presidential campaign.

The Green Party member — who missed the mark in 2012 and 2016 — promises to create living-wage jobs for all Americans and economic rights that include the right to a job, health care, housing, food and education.

Stein pledged to eliminate student and medical debt and create a Green New Deal to combat climate collapse.

“People are tired of being thrown under the bus by wealthy elites and their bribed politicians,” she said in her campaign announcement. “I am tired of living paycheck to paycheck, struggling to pay the rent, being mired in student debt and medical care, the child poverty on the rise, the diseases of despair and the growing hopelessness.”

“The political system is broken, the two Wall Street parties have been bought and paid for. More than 60 percent of us now say the bipartisan establishment has failed us.”

Stein said she is running for president to provide a choice for “a party that serves the people” in the 2024 elections – claiming the two-party system has failed.

“We will create solutions to the crises we face: crushing inequality, endless war and climate collapse.”

“The ruling parties that got us into this mess will not get us out of it. Both sides waste trillions on the endless war machine, fueling conflict around the world – while tens of millions here at home lack food, housing and health care.”

The Green Party leader said both parties are dangerous to democracy because they expand censorship, criminalize protests, throw competitors off the ballot box and suppress debate.

Stein will join two other independent and third-party candidates on the ballot: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West.

RFK Jr. has gained a following that appreciates his outspoken anti-vaccine rhetoric and conspiracy theories. He initially ran for the Democratic nomination, but announced in October that he would enter the race as an independent candidate.

Cornel West is a philosopher and political activist who initially said he would run for the People’s Party, then switched to the Green Party and ultimately decided to run as an independent.

Voters unsure and uninspired by the front-runners in the presidential race could be swayed by Stein, Kennedy and West — which has the potential to replicate the 2016 results in key swing states.