MEMORANDUM
To: Events
From: Rahna Epting, Govt Director, MoveOn Political Motion
RE: RFK Jr., Stein, & West: Off the Debate Stage however Threatening to Elect Trump
Date: June 27, 2024
Third-Get together Presidential Candidates Are A Risk Democrats Can not Ignore.
With tonight’s debate, President Biden and Donald Trump will go toe-to-toe with dueling visions for our nation—one a optimistic financial imaginative and prescient that may shield civil and reproductive rights, and the opposite an authoritarian hellscape that rips away the hard-fought progress we’ve gained whereas tipping financial scales additional towards billionaires. Merely put: We can not go backward. We should go ahead—and meaning defeating Donald Trump on the poll field in November.
In what’s already a tough setting for any sitting president, President Biden has the distinct misfortune of competing towards Trump with third-party spoiler candidates threatening to peel off simply sufficient help to tilt the election Trump’s means. Simply as Jill Stein and Gary Johnson did in 2016 and as Ralph Nader did in 2000.
Sadly, that’s by design. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is receiving monetary backing from Trump’s largest donor, to the tune of $25 million. Jill Stein, working virtually brazenly as a puppet for Vladimir Putin, refuses to assault Trump—saving barbs solely for President Biden. In the meantime, Cornel West is actively accepting assist from GOP operatives to get on the poll in a number of states.
Trump has even gone as far as to reward West and Stein for the votes they may assuredly take from President Biden, and in doing so, he’s saying the quiet half out loud: third-party candidates are core to his electoral technique.
To be clear, RFK Jr., Jill Stein, and Cornel West don’t have any probability of profitable the presidency, and their presence within the race will proceed to be a boon to Trump—and he is aware of it. A vote for any of these candidates will transfer us perilously nearer to a second Trump presidency, by which our democracy could not survive.
The stakes couldn’t be increased, and that’s why we’re sounding the alarm and combating again. In 2000 and 2016, Democrats noticed the disastrous impact third-party candidates can have on an election’s consequence. Furthermore, our complete nation felt the implications of sliding-door moments that took our nation offtrack. We can not afford to make these errors once more.
Spoiler Candidates Are Getting On Battleground Ballots—With Gop Assist.
In states throughout the nation, third-party candidates are working hand in glove with shady Trump operatives to assist get RFK Jr., Stein, and West on the poll. Republican involvement indicators that their true intent is to wreck President Biden’s reelection probabilities by peeling away 1000’s of votes the place the margins are already razor skinny. By accepting Republican help, those self same third-party campaigns are betraying the very voters they’re courting. We are going to proceed to observe, name out, and publicly problem the affiliation between third-party candidates and Republican operatives and donors—to make it clear what precise workforce these candidates are enjoying for.
Listed below are the newest updates on poll entry:
- Simply final evening, the North Carolina election board voted 3-2 to halt RFK Jr.’s and Cornel West’s efforts to determine new political events pending additional scrutiny.
- Kennedy certified for the poll in Michigan by turning into the nominee of the obscure “Pure Legislation Get together” at a two-person nominating conference led by a part-time magician.
- RFK Jr. is suing the Nevada secretary of state; in the meantime, the Nevada Democratic Get together is difficult his signatures, in addition to Stein’s.
- RFK Jr. faces a lawsuit in New Jersey in search of to maintain him off the poll.
- West has been caught in North Carolina and Virginia utilizing Republican operatives to gather signatures to assist get his We the Individuals social gathering onto the poll.
- The method to gather signatures for unbiased candidates in Wisconsin begins on July 1.
RFK Jr. Ballot Numbers Are Fading—However It Will Take Just one Or 2% To Assist Trump Win.
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- RFK Jr.’s favorable score with registered Democrats was a dismal 9%, however he loved 33% favorability amongst Independents—suggesting a path to crushing his help will circulate by means of purple voters.
- Nonetheless, the seven battleground states have been every determined by lower than 3% in 2020, together with three states (PA, MI, WI) determined by lower than 1%.
Latest Press Protection For Spoiler Candidates Is —Yikes!
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- The Supreme Courtroom rejects COVID-19 vaccine appeals from a nonprofit based by RFK Jr. One of many authorized challenges was associated to the FDA’s authorization to manage the COVID-19 vaccine to kids.
Jill Stein
Cornel West
- In keeping with NBC Washington, the Cornel West marketing campaign is working with Trump operatives in Virginia to get West on the poll by mendacity to voters and accumulating signatures underneath the false pretense of getting “Donald Trump off the poll.”
- West was additionally caught counting on Republican operatives to get on the poll in North Carolina, the place “volunteers” have been asking voters exterior Trump occasions to assist West siphon votes from President Biden.
We Ignore Historical past At Our Peril.
RFK Jr., Stein, and West can not win the presidency, however in a race that could be determined by 1 or 2% in a half dozen states, their impression will probably be outsized, and their risk have to be mitigated. We are going to maintain combating to verify People perceive what is actually at stake: A vote for RFK Jr., Stein, or West is the very same as a vote for Trump.
That is an all-hands-on-deck second that requires help from everybody within the anti-Trump coalition to defeat the third-party risk and deny Donald Trump a second, extra harmful shot at energy.
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