Some Democrats blamed her bid for depriving Mrs.

Stein qualified in 44 states and drew almost 1.4 million votes overall. Hawkins was on the ballot in only 28 states, qualifying in Florida, Colorado and Michigan, but not in other states where polls show relatively narrow margins, including Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Georgia. Hantler’s efforts in 2016, but said that it was unaware of current support being given to the Green Party.Īs of this week, Mr. The Trump campaign declined to comment on whether officials were aware of Mr. Why is the NYT trying to make this into a scandal and not the fact that superrich elites from the same corporate interests give hundreds of millions every election to buy off both establishment parties?” Stein, in a statement, said: “I’ve never heard of Bernie Marcus or this alleged effort.

Hantler’s involvement insisted on anonymity in order to disclose private conversations. Hantler declined multiple requests seeking comment. Marcus’s top political adviser, had portrayed himself as involved in efforts to bolster the Green Party in 2016. Three Republican operatives said that Steve Hantler, Mr. Marcus’s support, which has not been previously reported, included bolstering the party’s effort to get on the ballot or funding a social media campaign, or if it went toward some other purpose. Manafort was subsequently convicted of eight counts in an unrelated financial fraud trial.) In 2016, a billionaire backer of President Trump, Bernie Marcus, the co-founder of Home Depot, provided support to Jill Stein, the Green candidate, according to people with knowledge of the strategy, who said the effort was done with the knowledge of some officials at the Trump campaign and its chairman at the time, Paul Manafort.

Republican efforts to aid the Green Party are not new. Democrats have portrayed the effort as a “dirty trick” and exploitative of Mr. Supporters of the president have also been trying to advance the candidacy of Kanye West, the billionaire hip-hop artist, confident that he can cut into Mr. This is taking place alongside a broader pattern of disinformation and skepticism by the president and his allies that has sown confusion and undermined confidence in the election. in most national and swing-state polls, Republicans are again trying to help third parties that may appeal to Democratic voters and siphon off votes from Mr. In thinking about the success of the Greens, the chapter takes a broader perspective and looks beyond the recent electoral successes to consider what a party motivated by ideas can accomplish outside coalition deals and governing.With Mr. It describes how ideology is expressed in the party’s unique approach to organisation and decision-making. This chapter explores the development of the Green Party from its activist roots and relates these activist origins to the ideology of the party. Ideology is crucial to understanding the Greens. Green parties challenge some of the conventional ways of understanding political parties. The longevity and more recent electoral success of green party politics in New Zealand may in part be related to a strong environmental ethic in New Zealand the Greens are much more than an environmental party. It was also the second time that one in ten voters voted for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and the third consecutive election where the Green Party returned to parliament as the third largest party. Does this collective idealisation of nature help to explain the long history of green politics in New Zealand? The 2014 general election marked 42 years of green party politics in New Zealand, spanning 15 general elections. A recurring idealisation of the natural landscape, what Bell calls the ‘nature myth’, is reflected outwards in the ‘clean and green’ image New Zealand presents to the world (Bell 1996). The natural environment features strongly in the ways that New Zealanders think about New Zealand.

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