Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein argued that Democrats “betrayed their base” and that the leaders of the party need to step aside to “allow a proper opposition” to fill in. “The Democrats have really lost credibility.

For much of the 2024 campaign, Kennedy showed enough sustained strength in public opinion surveys to make both campaigns nervous. But since dropping out of the race in August and endorsing Trump, Democrats' third-party attention has focused on Stein, who is once again running as a Green Party candidate.