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Jill Stein hurts Donald Trump more than Kamala Harris, poll suggests (www.newsweek.com)

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A new poll suggests that Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is drawing more voters from former President Donald Trump than from Vice President Kamala Harris.

According to a Noble Predictive Insights survey released last week, Harris holds a narrow lead over Trump in a hypothetical three-way race. With Stein on the ballot, Harris' lead expands, pointing to a potential spoiler effect similar to what many Democrats blamed Stein for doing to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.

For Trump, the emergence of Stein as a potential spoiler may be a critical factor in battleground states, where even a small shift in votes could determine the outcome. For Harris, Stein's candidacy could paradoxically provide an unexpected advantage, drawing votes from Trump and narrowing his pathway to victory.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Libs will still blame leftists like blue maga wants them to.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I won't believe a single poll until this election is over. There is so much incentive for misinformation out there it is unbearable. Just get out and vote.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally the maga line in 2020 lmfao. Like word for word.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

speech-side-r-2 smuglord

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

not even remotely relevant, but hilarious af. upvote

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I'm struggling really hard to see which voter is on the fence between Trump and Stein. Wouldn't it be more likely to be on the fence between Stein and Harris, or Stein and the couch?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

People who don't like Trump but are too anti Democrat to vote Harris

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

One could still be pro Democrat or pro democracy, and still do not like Harris. Many things can be true at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Not as many people hate Harris specifically as hated Hillary, but a lot of people (for good and bad reasons) hate the Dems and also Kamala to some extent.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think Trump draws a lot of broad support from his 'anti-establishment' rhetoric so it kinda makes sense for folks to look to other anti-establishment candidates as an alternative to him. There's a tendency to look down upon Trump voters as only right wingers, conspiracists etc and not really understand that a lot of his support is superficial and based on limited information.

In a way it's not so much that Stein or other left candidates are spoilers for the establishment Dems but more the case that figures like Trump are spoilers for progressive alternatives to the establishment.