The Greens hardly play a role in US politics. They could still be crucial to Kamala Harris’ success – especially in Wisconsin.
Washington, DC – In the race for the US election lies the Republican Donald Trump According to a current survey, she is narrowly ahead of her Democratic rival in the hotly contested state of Wisconsin Kamala Harris. About victory or defeat Democrats In the state that is known for its recently razor-thin margins of victory, a party could decide US politics otherwise only plays a subordinate role: the Greens.
The latest poll from polling firm Trafalgar Group asked voters in the crucial swing state who they would vote for if the election were tomorrow. According to the numbers, Trump currently leads the vice president by 1.1 percentage points. He would receive 47.1 percent of the vote, compared to 46 percent for Harris. About 3.8 percent were undecided and 3.1 percent chose “other,” the survey found. A total of 1,079 eligible voters were surveyed.
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These poll results differ significantly from a Marquette School of Law poll released Wednesday (October 2) that shows Harris with a 4-point lead over Trump in Wisconsin. Also the current election index from the US politics website The Hill gives the Democratic candidate a lead of 1.3 percentage points. According to these numbers, Harris would currently receive 49.4 percent of the vote – compared to 48.1 percent for her Republican opponent.
But even if not all polling institutes currently assume that Trump will have a lead in the state, the Democrats can by no means rest on their laurels there. Wisconsin, along with other states in the northeast and western United States, is part of the so-called “Blue Wall,” a series of states that are crucial to Harris’ chances of winning the presidential election. However, one of the biggest threats to the Democratic Party does not necessarily come from the Republicans.
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Instead, the Democrats here are trembling before the “Green Party of the United States” (GPUS), the green party in the USA. This comes from a report from the US portal Politico out. The party does not have any candidates running for local office in Wisconsin and is barely represented across the country. It has little money or political organization, no members of Congress or statewide officeholders. However, due to the razor-thin margins of victory in the state, where even tenths of a percentage point play a role, it could still have a massive impact on the outcome of the US election.
Green Party politician Jill Stein’s renewed candidacy for president brings back memories of the role she played eight years ago, the report said. At that time, Democrat Hillary Clinton unexpectedly lost the state to the republican under Trump. He had a narrow lead of 23,000 votes – which many attribute to the around 31,000 votes that Stein won that year as the Green Party candidate.
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In 2000, too, the Greens made Democrat Al Gore’s election campaign massively more difficult by repeatedly undermining his efforts to make environmental protection his central campaign issue. Ultimately, the then GPUS candidate, Ralph Nader, received almost 100,000 votes in Florida. That spoiled Gore’s chances in what was then a crucial election campaign. The state went to the Republicans, who ultimately elected George W. Bush as President of the United States, by just 537 votes.
Relatively speaking, the Green Party represents an exceptionally small percentage of the electorate. But its outsized influence on the US election has made it a bogeyman for Democrats, the report continued. The party is trying to counteract this by taking systematic action against the GPUS. Using a proactive and ruthless approach, efforts are being made to stop third-party threats. This extends to hiring communications professionals whose entire job is to attack third-party candidates – an approach that does not go unnoticed. “The Democrats wanted people to infiltrate and spy on our campaign,” said Stein, outraged. “That stinks to high heaven.” (tpn)
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