The Green Party is urging opponents of Hillary Clinton to turn to it as a “Plan B,” now that Clinton has clinched the Democratic presidential nomination by securing a majority of pledged and unpledged delegates.
Likely Green Party nominee Jill Stein claims Democrats who supported Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the primary can rest assured knowing they can “continue to fight that revolution” by supporting Stein.
“We are here in the event that they feel like they don’t have a place to go,” Stein told CNN Tuesday evening, hours before Sanders was dealt back-to-back losses in California and New Jersey. “Know that there’s a Plan B here.”
According to Stein, who was nominated by the Green Party in 2012, Clinton’s path to the top of the Democratic ticket was enabled by the Democratic party’s “coronation” of her long before she secured a significant delegate lead over Sanders.
“If Bernie endorses Hillary, I urge Bernie’s supporters not to throw in the towel,” she said.
Stein dismissed Clinton’s position as the first female candidate to secure a major party’s presidential nomination. “We need not just someone who is born with a particular gender identity, but someone in the office who supports women,” she said.
The Green Party candidate said she’s reached out numerous times to the Sanders campaign, but to no avail. Stein also claimed that some of the socialist senator’s supporters have already shifted their support to her.
