But are they so disliked that Green Party nominee Jill Stein could become a viable contender in this election?
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Stein in scheduled to speak around 7 p.m.
Stein was arrested for trespassing in Texas during her 2012 presidential campaign when she tried to take supplies to protesters opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline.
Beyond the photos and video showing Stein’s actions, investigators say they have video of Baraka painting the word “decolonization” on the front of a bulldozer. Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said Tuesday that the charges would be for trespassing and vandalism.
The crude oil pipeline would traverse four states and run through grounds the Standing Rock Sioux consider sacred (but are not protected as part of their reservation).
No construction workers were on site at the time – the third day, authorities said, of clashes between pipeline security personnel and demonstrators.
Attorney Bill Leone said during the Tuesday hearing that there are 700 people constructing the pipeline in North Dakota.
Charges are coming for a presidential candidate, and it has nothing to do with emails.
The weekend confrontation prompted the tribe to ask Sunday for a temporary stop of construction, which a judge partially granted Tuesday.
Stein and Baraka joined the protests this week. Opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline believe it has the potential to leak into the Missouri River.
Seemingly in response to the charges, Stein tweeted, “The Dakota Access Pipeline is vandalism on steroids”.
The sheriff’s department in Morton County, North Dakota announced on Wednesday that it had issued arrest warrants for Stein and her vice presidential candidate, Ajamu Baraka.
Still, Stein said Wednesday, voters are looking for other options because they don’t trust “these two candidates that have been forced down our throats”. It said authorities were investigating the protest, which it called a “criminal act”. The DAPL is a $3.8 billion project, meant to transport crude oil from Montana and North Dakota’s Bakken Formation to oil refineries in the Gulf Coast.
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Although at least 43 states will include Stein on their ballots, her poll numbers have hovered in the single digits, far below the 15 percent threshold needed to participate in the upcoming debates.
