Jill Stein: Don’t ‘throw your vote away’ on Clinton or Trump
US Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein calls on Americans not to throw their vote away on Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, saying they are “the most disliked” candidates in American history.
Stein made the comments in a radio interview on Friday after Democratic and Republican candidates described her as a spoiler in the 2016 presidential race.
Stein told WBZ NewsRadio 1030 CBS Boston that every vote counts.
“We encourage people not to throw your vote away on more of a two-party failed political system, but to invest your vote in a real movement for change that our party alone represents,” she said.
Stein and Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson were excluded from recent presidential debates under stringent rules set by the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is controlled by the Republican and Democratic Parties.
The two candidates had failed to garner the 15 percent support in five polls required to qualify for the debate.
The Green Party candidate said Democrats and Republicans have launched an “intimidation campaign” to pressure Americans into voting for either Clinton or Trump.
“Hillary and Donald are the most disliked and untrusted presidential candidates in our history,” Stein said. “They are not entitled to our votes. They have to earn our votes. They have not earned our votes.”
Stein, who has support of 3 to 5 percent of likely voters in recent polls, accused the biased media for her low poll numbers.
“The American people have been prohibited from finding out about their other two choices at a time when that is exactly what they have been screaming for,” she said.
Jill Stein's interview with Bloomberg on Thursday
According to Mark Dankof, a former third-party US Senate candidate, third-party presidential candidates in the US face "insurmountable obstacles" from the two major political parties, as well as from wealthy corporations and the mainstream media.
America’s corrupt campaign finance system and the corporate-controlled media prevents third-party candidates from getting proper access to the press and winning the race for the White House, Dankof told Press TV.
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