Kamala Harris cannot win the presidential election because she has lost the crucial support of Muslim and Arab Americans in key battleground states, Jill Stein has said.
The Green Party leader has placed Israel’s wars with Hamas and Hezbollah front and center of her campaign—with potentially devastating effect for the Democrats.
There’s been a spike in support for her among the Muslim and Arab American communities that polling shows could deny Harris victory in several swing states—and present a path to the White House for Donald Trump. The Greens are seeing particularly strong support in Michigan and Wisconsin—two key swing states that look likely to go to the wire.
“The Democrats cannot win without the support of the Muslim American community. And that community has left the station and is not coming back unless the Democrats decide that it’s more important to them to win the election than it is to conduct the genocide,” Stein said in an interview with Newsweek.
“So they have to do a 180 on the genocide and they don’t appear willing to do that. They could win those votes back, but it doesn’t look like that’s on the cards. So it looks like they are sacrificing several swing states.” Israel denies it is conducting genocide.
Stein, 74, says her campaign is experiencing a “breakout moment” and that attacks and “gaslighting” from key Democrat figures have only served to open up new audiences to her stance on the “defining issue” of Israel’s wars with Hamas and Hezbollah.
“I’m not preparing myself to be considered a spoiler because I reject the notion. Democracy is about political choices,” Stein said, adding that Democrats should support ranked choice voting.
“They rely on fear-mongering to extort your vote, because they know they can’t earn your vote, because they’re working for Wall St and the war machine—they’re not working for you. Working people are thrown under the bus.
“This is what they do. Every election is the most important election of our lifetimes.”