Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein said on Wednesday that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has abandoned those who backed his Democratic presidential campaign.
“I think he has broken with his supporters,” she said on Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto Coast to Coast.”
{mosads}“His supporters were in tears, hundreds of them walked out, sadly to say, he was actually booed on the floor in addressing them and telling them to basically start supporting Hillary Clinton,” Stein added, referring to the Democratic National Convention, where Clinton was formally nominated for president Tuesday.
“[Clinton’s] been an agent of the big banks, the giant fossil fuel corporations and the war industry. He’s telling his supporters of the political revolution to go back into a counter-revolutionary party.”
Stein said Sanders’s fan base would outlast him and ultimately find a new home in the Green Party’s ranks.
“His movement is moving on. In his own words, ‘it’s a movement, not a man, and it’s not a moment, it’s a movement.’ It has a future. His supporters have remarkably changed the political landscape in America.”
Stein added Clinton and Republican Donald Trump don’t automatically deserve support despite leading the nation’s two major political parties.
“I don’t think we have a new, special entitlement for big corporate politicians that they own our votes,” she said. “They have to earn our votes.
“These two candidates have the highest rates of dislike and disapproval at any time throughout history. Most people are actually clamoring for an alternative.”
Sanders moved late Tuesday for Democrats to nominate Clinton for the presidency during their convention in Philadelphia.
Sanders’s gesture was meant to unify Democrats against Trump after an at-times bitter primary.