Jill Stein woos Bernie Sanders supporters during town hall
 
 
During a CNN Town Hall Wednesday night, Green Party nominee Dr. Jill Stein had a message for those who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primary.
"Thank you so much for changing the political landscape forever," she said. "The political system will never be the same." Flanked by her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, Stein explained why she believes it makes perfect sense for Sanders fans to vote for her ticket, even though Sanders has endorsed Clinton and urged his supporters to vote for her. "As Bernie himself said, it's a movement, not a man," Stein noted. "Hillary does not represent what you were working for. Our campaign has been there from the start, and many have looked at us from Bernie's campaign as Plan B."
Stein said that during the primary, the Sanders camp learned "you can't have a revolutionary campaign in a counterrevolutionary party. Bernie did everything right, and his supporters did everything right, but the playing field was really, steeply, unfairly tilted against you, from superdelegates to Super Tuesdays to voting irregularities to the emails that show how the DNC was colluding behind closed doors with Hillary Clinton's campaign to smear Bernie Sanders in the press." She also said the idea that she opposes vaccines is "completely ridiculous," her foreign policy "will be based on international law and human rights," and she will have "trouble sleeping at night" if Clinton or Donald Trump wins in November.
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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