Jill Stein presidential campaign, 2016
| Jill Stein for President | |
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| Campaign | U.S. presidential election, 2016 |
| Candidate |
Jill Stein Former member of the Lexington Town Meeting from the 2nd district (2005–2011) Ajamu Baraka Human rights activist Howie Hawkins (Minnesota) |
| Affiliation | Green Party |
| Status | Announced: June 22, 2015 Presumptive nominee: July 15, 2016 Official nominee: August 6, 2016 Lost Election: November 8, 2016 |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, New York |
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| Receipts | US$3,218,525 (2016-09-31) |
| Slogan | #ItsInOurHands. |
| Website | |
| www.Jill2016.com | |
The 2016 presidential campaign of Jill Stein, was announced on June 22, 2015. Jill Stein, a physician from Massachusetts, was the presidential nominee of the Green Party of the United States for President in 2016 and 2012. In 2012, Stein was the Green Party's nominee and received 469,627 votes for President of the United States in the 2012 general election.
She formally announced her second presidential bid during an appearance on Democracy Now! on June 22, 2015.
On June 15, 2016, she reached the necessary number of delegates for the presumptive Green nomination. On August 1, 2016, Stein announced that she had selected international human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as her running mate.
Stein officially received the Green Party presidential nomination on August 6, 2016, at the party's nominating convention in Houston, Texas.
On February 6, 2015, Stein announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a campaign for the Green Party's presidential nomination in 2016. In a June 2015 interview on The Alan Colmes Show, Stein said that she would announce her intention to run for President "certainly before the summer is up, probably a lot sooner than that".
In December 2015, Stein took part in the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in Paris, speaking at several forums. That same month, Stein took part in Russia Today TV's tenth anniversary celebration conference in Moscow, speaking alongside international leaders. On February 24, Stein was invited to speak at the Oxford Union at the University of Oxford in England. In March 2016, Stein was one of only two presidential candidates to receive an A rating for their health plan from Physicians for a National Health Program, an advocacy group for single-payer health care, out of an analysis of the health plans of six presidential candidates, including the top two Democratic candidates and the top three Republican candidates. In May 2016, the Marijuana Policy Project released a voter guide of the candidates of the four largest political parties (Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, and Green) in the 2016 election. Stein received an A+, tying her with Gary Johnson and placing her above the Democratic and Republican candidates.
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