Jill Stein

But I think it's going to make some Alaskans think Mary Peltola is just another same old, same old line politician.

You remember Jill Stein?

Yeah, I do remember Jill Stein.

Tell the audience who Jill Stein was.

Jill Stein was the

green candidate who ran against, in the 2016 election, and took votes away from Hillary Clinton that potentially lost Hillary Clinton the state of Wisconsin, thereby losing her the election against Donald Trump.

And who

funded Jill Stein?

No, I think it is actually, this is rat fuckery, like broadly and colloquially, but the technical term for this is ballot stacking, where you are getting a bunch of names onto the ballot to try to confuse voters.

Just think about like a Jill Stein or every libertarian thing.

Like when we talk about the spoilers, it is a very common campaign tactic, although not usually done by the campaign itself.

Like you always look and say, who is funding Jill Stein? Because the point of a Jill Stein on the ballot, like, is it the Russians? Is it

Vladimir Vutin? Yeah.

This gentleman I know from Moscow.

Let me just bring up some cases where Republicans have done directly or indirectly what they are accusing Mary Paltola of doing in Alaska.

You will remember 2016 when Jill Stein was on the ballot for president as a Green Party candidate.

She siphoned off important votes in some crucial states from Hillary Clinton.

Jill Stein got more votes in those states than by what Hillary Clinton lost.

So did she have an effect and an influence on the result of the election? You better believe it.

And if that wasn't enough, let's go for a more recent example.

Probably third party.

You think she voted for Jill Stein? Absolutely.

Yeah, she looks like she votes for Jill Stein.

Yeah.

Or Gary Johnston.

Yeah, I do understand the outrage, though, of from the Republicans here, like this is clearly meant to this is just a ploy to siphon votes away from one candidate versus another.

And I understand that because we learned that every four years at the presidential election with Jill Stein.

So save your pearl clutching and just eat it.

And Alaska already said, no, no, no, you have no jurisdiction over our state elections.

That's the problem, right? So ballot stacking happens all the time.

And I wouldn't be shocked if you see in every race between a Republican and a Democrat, if a Republican wants a little bit of an edge, that they somehow back-channel, recruit a left-leaning independent to put on the ballot, like a Jill Stein or something like that, put her on the ballot, siphon some vote.

That happens.

When you go out there and find a guy with the exact same name, and you're like, well, did you go out there and find him? Not to my knowledge.

And it's happened.

You know, the Republicans encouraging Jill Stein to run.

And, you know, there's been ways of funding her.

So I think it happens.