Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein to speak in Las Vegas
August 11, 2016 - 5:04 pm
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will speak Friday at a forum in Las Vegas for presidential campaigns.
The forum invited all candidates. Hillary Clinton’s Clinton’s campaign is sending former President Bill Clinton. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson plans to attend. Republican nominee Donald Trump won’t be there.
The election forum is hosted by the Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote and the Asian American Journalists Association at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
A physician, Stein also ran for president the Green Party’s ballot in 2012.
The Nevada Green Party says 3,171 people in the state were registered with the party as of July 28.
In comparison, 1.34 million people are registered to vote in Nevada, which includes Democratic voters, Republican voters, and nonpartisan and third-party voters, according to the Nevada secretary of state voter registration figures for July.
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