New Jill Stein Ad Backs Black Lives Matter [VIDEO]

In her second national campaign ad in as many days, Green Party nominee Jill Stein and backer Cornel West speak while an on-screen tagline reads “There is a candidate who supports #BlackLivesMatter.” Watch below. Stein is currently polling at about 5%. In 2000 Green Party nominee Ralph Nader finished with 3% of the national vote, a margin that many blamed for Al Gore losing the race. Libertarian blog Reason strongly discounted that perception yesterday. They write:

It is true that approximately 95,000 Florida ballots were cast for Nader in 2000, and assuming every single one of those votes went instead to then-Vice President Al Gore (which is an incorrect assumption, but we’ll get to that later), Gore would have been easily able to supplant the 537 vote differential in the Sunshine State that gave Bush the presidency.

What that oft-cited factoid leaves out are the inconvenient truths laid out by Jim Hightower in Salon way back when, including the fact that only about 24,000 registered Democrats voted for Nader in Florida, whereas about 308,000 Democrats voted for (wait for it…) Bush! Further, approximately 191,000 self-identified “liberals” voted for Bush, as opposed to the fewer than 34,000 who went with Nader.

The clip below aired this morning on MSNBC.