Mr. Hawkins, the Green Party candidate, said in an interview on Sunday that he expected a vote in his favor. Mr. Hawkins, whose campaign filed the petition before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, acknowledged that his effort to be placed on the state’s ballot had been aided by conservative lawyers who were paid by an unknown benefactor. “Republicans have played these games before,” Mr. Hawkins said. Despite the jockeying to add Mr. Hawkins and Mr. West to the ballot in Wisconsin, where Mr. Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by less than 23,000 votes in 2016, experts said it was not at all clear that a third-party candidacy would swing the election in the state. In 2016, the Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein, received about 31,000 votes in Wisconsin, more than the margin between Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton, though many of Ms. Stein’s supporters would not have voted had she not been in the race, experts said.

Source: New York Times September 14, 2020 12:00 UTC