Jill Stein says 'terrified' Democrats only have themselves to blame if she wrecks Harris' 2024 election chances

Jill Stein was ne'er going to budge.

During nan last days of nan 2024 campaign, nan Green Party statesmanlike campaigner said pinch DailyMail.com and suggested location was thing Vice President Kamala Harris could person done to push her from nan race.

The expert and activistic is moving connected a 3rd statement ticket, and immoderate votes she receives person nan imaginable to upend what could beryllium 1 of nan closest elections successful history.

A 1000 ballots formed for Stein successful 1 of six battleground states wherever she appears connected nan ballot - she's not competing successful Nevada - could tilt nan election.

Democrats fearfulness that it will wounded Harris' chances of taking nan keys to nan White House if Stein is successful Tuesday night. With America bitterly divided and nan U.S. engagement successful nan Gaza warfare a root of anger for millions, nan left-leaning Stein could beryllium perceived arsenic a viable alternative.

While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was convinced by erstwhile President Donald Trump to wantonness his independent statesmanlike bid successful speech for a domiciled successful a Trump 2.0 White House, Stein said nary specified overtures were made. Nor would she person accepted them.

'We would ne'er person trusted them to person backed disconnected nan genocide. We would not person trusted them to do that,' she said successful a telephone question and reply Thursday. 'So we would person remained successful that title arsenic a watchdog and arsenic a threat against their backsliding.'

The genocide Stein is referring to is Gaza and nan 'they' she speaks of is Harris and nan even-more-guilty Democratic National Committee, 'which is nan existent mouthpiece for nan shaming and blaming of independent voters.'

While Stein ran for president successful 2012, it was successful 2016 erstwhile she became much memorable owed to nan condemnation she received aft Hillary Clinton lost, arsenic much group voted for nan Green Party hopeful than Clinton mislaid by successful Michigan and Pennsylvania. 

Clinton herself wrote successful her memoir: 'There were much than capable Stein voters to plaything nan result, conscionable for illustration Ralph Nader did successful Florida and New Hampshire successful 2000.' 

But Stein threw acold h2o connected that sentiment.  

'If you look astatine nan information successful 2016, nan exit polls showed that group who voted for our run would not person different travel out,' she explained. 'So this complaint that we stole votes is really a very self-serving portion of propaganda, essentially.'

She said that her supporters recovered it 'ludicrous and offensive' that they would person backed Clinton.

'And ludicrous that they were ever supporting Joe Biden and past erstwhile Kamala Harris grounded to separate herself from Joe Biden, she ne'er had these voters either,' Stein said.

Harris - who took complete nan Democratic information from Biden successful July - has recovered herself successful an impossibly tricky business politically erstwhile it comes to nan warfare successful Gaza.

Her rhetoric has been much sympathetic to nan Palestinian civilians being killed - and she talked reliable aft her gathering pinch Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conscionable days aft Biden's withdrawal - but Harris has not backed an arms embargo, arsenic galore connected nan near want.

It wouldn't matter if Harris had, said Stein.

'Would I person bowed out? No,' Stein said. 'Because powerfulness concedes thing without a demand, right? If we bowed out, that's nan extremity of nan Green Party, not conscionable successful this election, but period. 

'Because you person to support your ballot position successful bid to jumpstart your adjacent race,' she continued. 'You want to get nan champion consequence you perchance tin because of nan measurement ballot entree rules are written. You person to travel retired of location pinch nan highest percent of nan ballot imaginable successful bid to rotation complete your ballot access.' 

When RFK Jr. suspended his run successful August he initially told his supporters successful plaything states to backmost Trump. 

He told those successful safe reddish aliases bluish states to ballot for him.  

Would Stein person ever instructed her supporters to do nan aforesaid for Harris had nan Democrat been much supportive of an arms embargo and nan Palestinian cause? 

'Well I would opportunity that, you know, what are nan likelihood that Harris would person done that?' Stein asked. 

'The likelihood that Harris would person ever done that, you know, are beautiful overmuch non-existent,' she continued. 'From nan strength of nan support by Harris and Biden for Netanyahu. Effectively Netanyahu is our commander-in-chief correct now.' 

While Stein's Green Party has go a spot for galore Muslim and Arab-American voters to now telephone home, Jewish Insider reported this week connected comments her moving mate, Rudolph 'Butch' Ware, made celebrating unit against Israelis - particularly connected aliases marking October 7.

When asked if there's 'daylight' betwixt her and her moving mate connected nan subject, Stein said: 'So successful my view, October 7 is portion of a agelong exchange. That fundamentally began pinch massacres moreover earlier nan founding of nan authorities of Israel.'

'And I deliberation that's easy mislaid show of erstwhile group return a position connected October 7,' she said. 'So truth to show I debar being distracted by October 7. It's conscionable nan latest successful a bid of exchanges.' 

'There's besides a batch of fog of warfare astir what happened connected October 7,' nan Green Party campaigner said. 

She past added, 'not that it wasn't horrible.'

'It was horrible, I abhor each unit against civilians,' Stein said. 

'At nan aforesaid time, according to world law, location is simply a correct of resistance. There is simply a correct of equipped guidance from an occupied people,' she argued. 

Stein besides said she disagreed pinch nan framing that October 7th caused nan existent Israeli battle connected Gaza. 

'You tin put nan extremity station wherever you want,' she said. 'The problem began erstwhile Zionists came pinch nan volition of violently displacing Palestinians. So if you request to put a extremity post, I would put it there.'

When asked if Stein understood why immoderate group mightiness beryllium offended by her moving mate's comments astir October 7, she replied: 'People are going to get upset.'

'This is simply a very arguable issue. Our opposing genocide is highly controversial,' she said. 'I deliberation Jews are a traumatized people. Many Jews having travel retired of nan anti-Semitism of Europe and nan Holocaust.'

Stein, herself, is Jewish.  

'And you know, arsenic a Muslim himself, he has a different group of sensitivities and you know, history of trauma. And arsenic an African-American himself, he has a full different history of trauma,' Stein added. 

'I deliberation we're not nan aforesaid person, and we tin person different views, and our views are arguable because we are opposing a strategy of economical and governmental elites that are doing each they tin to effort to drum up fearfulness campaigns and smear campaigns against us,' she besides said. 

In particular, Stein bristled astatine comments made by progressive Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who discouraged Green-curious voters by saying nan statesmanlike hopeful hasn't done thing to build up nan statement betwixt predetermination cycles. 

'If you person been your party's nominee for 12 years successful a row, and you cannot turn your movement, beautiful overmuch astatine all, and can't peruse immoderate successful strategy...and each you do is show up each 4 years to speak to group who are justifiably p***ed off, you're not serious,' AOC said successful an Instagram communicative past month. 'To me, it does not publication arsenic authentic, it sounds arsenic predatory.'

Stein brought up Ocasio-Cortez unprompted. 

'And, by nan way, nan AOC point is simply a lie. That is simply a lie,' she said. 'We have, we had, we've elected complete 1,500 section elected officials and person presently 150 successful office. So we don't spell away. The large media goes away.' 

Stein was talking to DailyMail.com from Pittsburgh Thursday morning, but she was headed to California - a heavy bluish authorities - complete nan play earlier spending her last hours campaigning successful Dearborn, Michigan.

'So arsenic you tin see, our strategy goes good beyond plaything states,' Stein said. 'It's really wherever location are existent hotbeds of governmental activism.' 

Dearborn became nan first Arab-majority metropolis successful nan U.S. successful 2023 and Michigan is nan likeliest of nan six battlegrounds wherever Stein competing could person an impact. 

During nan Michigan Democratic superior held successful February, 101,623 voters said they were 'uncommitted' alternatively of backing President Joe Biden, a protestation ballot complete his handling of Gaza - showing its potency arsenic an rumor successful nan Wolverine State.

A Marist canvass of Michigan published connected Friday greeting has Harris up by 3 percent, pinch 1 percent backing different candidate. 

The Real Clear Politics polling average on Friday has Harris up by 2.4 points complete Trump, pinch Stein receiving an mean of 1.8 percent of Michigan's ballot share. 

Nationally, Stein is polling astatine 1.1 percent, according to nan RCP average. 

A speaker astatine a caller arena headlined by Stein successful Dearborn openly admitted they had nary expectations of winning nan White House.  

'But we do person a existent opportunity to triumph thing historic. We could contradict Kamala Harris nan authorities of Michigan.' erstwhile Seattle City Council personnel Kshama Sawant told nan crowd.

As for what occurrence looks for illustration for Stein Tuesday, she answered that will beryllium 'what comes retired of it.' 

'Are we establishing caller parties? Do we person much candidates moving for office?'  

'And arsenic horrific arsenic this genocide is, you know, and nan ambiance crisis, it is simply a large wake-up infinitesimal now for truthful galore Americans,' she said. 

'And this is why nan Democrats are moving scared. This is why they are taking retired ads against us. They're perfectly terrified and they person nary 1 to blasted but themselves,' she said. 

'But Kamala Harris could person earned those votes backmost successful a heartbeat by, you know, by agreeing to an embargo,' Stein said. 

But Stein, of course, would person remained connected nan ballot.