Green Party candidate Jill Stein to announce running mate

( NewsNation ) — Green Party candidate for president Jill Stein is scheduled to announce who she’s choosing as her running mate in the 2024 election Friday evening.

“With the hand-picked candidates of empire and oligarchy dragging us towards economic breakdown, climate collapse, genocide and World War III, it’s more critical than ever that we come together behind the only anti-war, anti-genocide, pro-worker, climate action campaign with a path to the White House,” the rally announcement on Stein’s website said.

Stein is a doctor and environmental activist who also ran for president in 2012 and 2016. Born in Chicago, she graduated from Harvard College in 1973 and from Harvard Medical School in 1979.

Among Stein’s policy platforms are abolishing student debt, free child care, a $25 minimum wage indexed to cost inflation and productivity growth and an immediate cease-fire in Israel and Palestine, including an end to the blockade of Gaza. One action Stein says she’d take as president is to immediately end all military aid to Israel and adopt sanctions “until it complies with international law.”

In keeping with her views on Gaza, news outlets such as NBC and The Guardian are reporting she’s been recruiting Palestinian Americans to be a vice presidential candidate.

Third-party candidates have often had a hard time, especially in federal elections, as some try to challenge their candidacy on ballots in a number of states. Recently, according to the Associated Press, an employee of the Democratic National Committee filed a complaint seeking to remove Stein from the ballot in Wisconsin.

“This is why we were fighting, because we are on the ballot already, for the majority of voters,” Stein said in June on “Dan Abrams Live.” “And voters deserve to know information about their candidates. And the debates really ought to include all ballot-qualified candidates.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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