Following President Joe Biden’s electoral withdrawal on Monday, July 22, uncertainty has begun to grow about who will be the candidates seeking the presidency of the United States, among which stand out Jill Steinbut who is the third presidential candidate?
Jill Stein, born May 14, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, is a former physician and environmental activist, who ran for office for the Green Party of the United States.
According to Britannica, Stein studied at Highland Parka northern suburb of Chicago; however, it was not until 1973 that he graduated with a degree in psychology, sociology and anthropology from Harvard University.
While in 1979 she graduated from Harvard Medical School, where she later served as an instructor of internal medicine where she practiced for 25 years in Boston.
However, Stein would become interested in politics to promote environmental justice as well as protect workers’ rights. Jill joined the Green Party and ran for governor as the party’s candidate in 2012.
In 2016, Jill Stein ran against Trump and the Democrat Hillary Clinton as a Green Party candidate and received about 1 percent of the vote. However, her third-party presidential bid was criticized by Democrats who accused her of helping put Trump in the White House.
Some Democrats also said his candidacy cost Clinton votes, particularly in swing states like Wisconsin.
After Joe Biden and Donald Trump emerged as the two main party candidates in the 2024 presidential election, according to the BBC, the 74-year-old candidate said that “Americans are not voting for a candidate they like.”
And he said that “generally they vote against the candidate they hate the most.”
In an “economic bill of rights,” Stein promised universal access to health care and the right to employment. She also promised to fight climate change, defend access to abortion and women’s rights. transgender people.
* With information from AP
