Green Party candidate Jill Stein announces Butch Ware as running mate

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced Butch Ware as her 2024 vice presidential running mate.

“I’m honored and thrilled to welcome Butch Ware as my running mate and the Vice President we need at this moment in history,” Stein said in a Friday press release. "His personal experience overcoming systemic injustice, his deep knowledge of history and people’s movements, and his commitment to building a sustainable, just, peaceful world make Butch the ideal candidate."

Ware is a history professor at the University of California Santa Barbara and has said that Zionism is a "white supremacist" movement.

Stein is expected to become the Green Party's official presidential nominee again in 2024 during a virtual meeting of the party this weekend.

She was the Green Party's nominee for president in 2012 and 2016.

Stein has been very outspoken about the Israel-Hamas war and was even arrested for protesting against Israel at Washington University in St. Louis.

"This is truly a historic ticket bringing together a Jewish woman and Black Muslim man against genocide, endless war, climate collapse, and rampant injustice, and for an economy that works for working people, a livable future for our children, and an America and a world that works for all of us," Stein wrote in her press release.