Stein has unequivocally rejected the endorsement, calling Duke a "racist troll" in a social media post. Nevertheless, the attention surrounding the endorsement has cast a shadow over Stein's campaign and added a controversial layer to an already-complex race.

Duke's public break from Trump marks a reversal of his 2016 and 2020 endorsements, accusing Trump of being too closely aligned with Israel and the "Jewish lobby."

This development, while unlikely to influence a large number of voters, may sway far-right or nationalist segments of Trump's base who feel alienated by his foreign policy stances.

newsweek, none of today's serious fascists know or care about david duke. this is more likely to affect moron 'optics' liberals in the greens who feel intense shame any time anyone does anything. david duke is not a serious political actor and hasn't been for decades, and this is how he makes people remember he exists. he's a washed out crank nazi gambling addict, and most of even the far right forget he exists until the media brings him up because he does some thing to draw attention to himself like this. Even anti-fascists forget this clown exists. I am surprised to hear he didn't die in a gutter somewhere during lockdown. In fact you, newsweek, help his "career" more by writing about him than he is capable of doing on his own these days and for the past 30 years.

I'm , but worth the perspective stated by the Stein campaign that they denounced this fascist creep and told his boomer supporters (all 3 of them who stayed after he defrauded them in the 90s, for gambling) to buzz off immediately, whereas Kamala is touring with the genocidal Cheneys, who in actuality, harmed more people than duke could dream