Turner confirmed to Cleveland.com and The Washington Post Sunday evening that she is considering serving as the running mate for MA doctor Jill Stein, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
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Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton for president last month and spoke at the Democratic National Convention last week, where he again urged his supporters to vote for his former rival. Bernie Sanders electrified the electorate with a democratic socialist solution to our capitalist problems.
The Green Party is a well-established party that not only nominated a woman, Jill Stein, as its presidential candidate in 2012 but also is also likely to renominate her for 2016 at its convention this week. That shift in support for Donald Trump from Bernie Sanders’ supporters isn’t too much of a surprise, though, considering both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have run campaigns based on an anti-establishment and crucially, anti-Wall Street message. She was the second to Bernie, I would imagine, in terms of speaking for the campaign on national television.
As most of Sanders’s operation got behind Clinton, Turner was a prominent holdout. “It’s true”, she told the Post, adding that she was still discussing her options with her family.
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“A third party might not be bad for this country”, she said. Turner is expected to decide by then. The Green Party candidate explained that she couldn’t deny the fact that vaccines have been critical in ridding the world of serious diseases, however, she’s still concerned about them, saying “That people do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or even the CDC for that matter, where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence”. Since the NY primary, which Sanders lost in part because of onerous voter registration requirements for Democrats, Stein has asked Sanders to have a conversation about the future of left politics; since June, she has offered to give him a place on the Green Party ticket.
