After Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his presidential run with an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, another candidate is coming to Vermont trying to win over some of his more liberal supporters. Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein is due to speak at 7 p.m. on Friday evening at the McClure Multigenerational Center in Burlington.
The Stein campaign is hoping in some ways to pick up where Sanders' so-called "political revolution" left off. Stein told Vermont Edition that her campaign has a lot to offer for Sanders supporters who aren't willing to make the ideological jump to supporting Clinton.
"It's that millennial generation that's been leading the way in Bernie's campaign and many of them I think will continue leading the way to a very different political future within my campaign," Stein says.
Part of Stein's goal is to convince voters that they have the power to cause a shift in government and make her more than a Democratic spoiler candidate.
"This concept of splitting the vote depends on thinking we are tiny," Stein says. Current polls show that between 2 and 5 percent of voters support Stein.
The full interview with Stein on Vermont Edition can be heard above. She also discusses tenets of her platform regarding health care, student debt and foreign policy, as well as the increase in donations her campaign has experienced since Sanders' endorsement of Clinton.
