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 the last days of the 2024 campaign, the Green Party statesmanlike campaigner spoke with DailyMail.com and suggested determination was thing Vice President Kamala Harris could person done to propulsion her from the race.

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

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

Democrats fearfulness that it volition wounded Harris' chances of taking the keys to the White House if Stein is palmy Tuesday night. With America bitterly divided and the U.S. engagement successful the Gaza warfare a root of choler for millions, the 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 autarkic statesmanlike bid successful speech for a relation 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 the genocide. We would not person trusted them to bash that,' she said successful a telephone interrogation Thursday. 'So we would person remained successful that contention arsenic a watchdog and arsenic a menace against their backsliding.'

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

While Stein ran for president successful 2012, it was successful 2016 erstwhile she became much memorable owed to the condemnation she received aft Hillary Clinton lost, arsenic much radical voted for the 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 the result, conscionable similar Ralph Nader did successful Florida and New Hampshire successful 2000.' 

But Stein threw acold h2o connected that sentiment.  

'If you look astatine the information successful 2016, the exit polls showed that radical who voted for our run would not person different travel out,' she explained. 'So this complaint that we stole votes is truly a precise 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 failed to separate herself from Joe Biden, she ne'er had these voters either,' Stein said.

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

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

It wouldn't substance 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 the extremity of the Green Party, not conscionable successful this election, but period. 

'Because you person to support your ballot presumption successful bid to jumpstart your adjacent race,' she continued. 'You privation to get the champion effect you perchance tin due to the fact that of the mode ballot entree rules are written. You person to travel retired of determination with the highest percent of the ballot imaginable successful bid to rotation implicit 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 harmless reddish oregon bluish states to ballot for him.  

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

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

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

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

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

'And I deliberation that's easy mislaid show of erstwhile radical instrumentality a presumption connected October 7,' she said. 'So information to archer I debar being distracted by October 7. It's conscionable the latest successful a bid of exchanges.' 

'There's besides a batch of fog of warfare astir what happened connected October 7,' the 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 the aforesaid time, according to planetary law, determination is simply a close of resistance. There is simply a close of equipped absorption from an occupied people,' she argued. 

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

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

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

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

Stein, herself, is Jewish.  

'And you know, arsenic a Muslim himself, helium has a antithetic acceptable of sensitivities and you know, past of trauma. And arsenic an African-American himself, helium has a full different past of trauma,' Stein added. 

'I deliberation we're not the aforesaid person, and we tin person antithetic views, and our views are arguable due to the fact that 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 the statesmanlike hopeful hasn't done thing to physique up the enactment betwixt predetermination cycles. 

'If you person been your party's nominee for 12 years successful a row, and you cannot turn your movement, beauteous overmuch astatine all, and can't peruse immoderate palmy strategy...and each you bash is amusement up each 4 years to talk to radical who are justifiably p***ed off, you're not serious,' AOC said successful an Instagram communicative past month. 'To me, it does not work arsenic authentic, it reads arsenic predatory.'

Stein brought up Ocasio-Cortez unprompted. 

'And, by the way, the AOC happening is simply a lie. That is simply a lie,' she said. 'We have, we had, we've elected implicit 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 - implicit the 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 truly wherever determination are existent hotbeds of governmental activism.' 

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

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

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

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

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

A talker astatine a caller lawsuit headlined by Stein successful Dearborn openly admitted they had nary expectations of winning the White House.  

'But we bash person a existent accidental to triumph thing historic. We could contradict Kamala Harris the authorities of Michigan.' erstwhile Seattle City Council subordinate Kshama Sawant told the crowd.

As for what occurrence looks similar for Stein Tuesday, she answered that volition 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 the clime crisis, it is simply a large wake-up infinitesimal present for truthful galore Americans,' she said. 

'And this is wherefore the Democrats are moving scared. This is wherefore 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 the ballot.