Sanders’ fans turning to Green Party, he can, too: Jill Stein
The probable presidential candidate of the US Green Party says she is ready to step aside and allow Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to use the party’s ticket at the 2016 presidential election.
Jill Stein, who is expected to be end up as the party’s nominee after a convention in August, told the Guardian on Friday that the Democratic hopeful had been contacted for the offer.
“I’ve invited Bernie to sit down explore collaboration – everything is on the table,” she said, indicating that the Democratic Party is not fit for the senator’s movement.
“If he saw that you can’t have a revolutionary campaign in a counter-revolutionary party, he’d be welcomed to the Green party. He could lead the ticket and build a political movement,” Stein added.
The offer comes as Sanders is expected to announce official endorsement for his rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton since he was not able to gain enough delegates and superdelegates in the primaries for the nomination.
Stein argued that Sanders would disappoint supporters of his “political movement,” if he remains “committed” to the party, particularly after voicing opposition to the superdelegate system.
“If he continues to declare his full faith in the Democratic Party, it will leave many of his supporters very disappointed,” she said. “That political movement is going to go on – it isn’t going to bury itself in the graveyard alongside Hillary Clinton.”
She added that Sanders’ party has “sabotaged” his campaign and many of his supporters are turning to the Green Party rather that the former First Lady after losing hope about his presidency.
“I’m not holding my breath but I’m not ruling it out that we can bring out 43 million young people into this election,” she noted. “It’s been a wild election; every rule in the playbook has been tossed out. Unfortunately, that has mainly been used to lift up hateful demagogues like Donald Trump, but it can also be done in a way that actually answers people’s needs.”
The 2016 Green National Convention is scheduled to be held August 4–7, 2016 in Houston, Texas.
Democrats will also hold their convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia July 25–28.
Clinton has already grabbed the 2,383 delegate votes needed to secure her nomination.
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