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Running for president a third time was «absolutely not» something Jill Stein started the year intending to do, she tells Sitio de origen de la información. But after a «long-standing argument» with Ajamu Baraka, her running mate in «he won that battle» and in early November she announced her latest bid for the White House. Despite a perhaps begrudging reentry into the national political debate, the Green Party stalwart says the campaign is already turning out to be «a blast,» and hopes to take the fight to the two mainstream parties in an election that could yet yield a few upsets.
In a wide-ranging interview about her candidacy Europe Mobile Number List and the fledgling campaign, Stein says Democratic incumbent and likely nominee Joe Biden is «already losing,» something that she is «already being blamed» for; discusses Cornel West’s abrupt departure from the Green Party race and the «scramble» to fill the space he left; and how her upbringing shaped her views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A physician by training who studied at Harvard, Stein, 73, explains that she first broke into environmental politics because of concerns over the impact of poor air quality on her then-young children’s health.
One of my kids had asthma, and so I was just very mindful of sources of air pollution that are driving this epidemic of asthma,» she says from her personal study, adding that she «then became very involved as a medical doctor in advocating for cleaning up our sources of air pollution and water pollution, and mercury in the fish supply.» Demonstrating this by pulling some of the papers on child health she helped translate from her bookcase—which also prominently displays a tome by Ralph Nader, the party’s pick inand —she adds. that they weren’t out there.