Green Party’s Jill Stein Slams Hillary, Courts Bernie Supporters at CNN Townhall

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her Vice President choice Ajamu Baraka took direct aim at Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and openly courted supporters of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders during a townhall on CNN with Chris Cuomo.

Leading up to the townhall, Stein took aim at Gary Johnson by promising not to be supportive of Hillary Clinton the way the Libertarian candidate was during his CNN townhall.

Gary Johnson called Clinton "a wonderful public servant" & didn't criticize Trump. Trigger warning: I'll give real answers at #GreenTownHall

— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) August 17, 2016

Stein honored her word blasting Hillary as “too big to jail.”

The problem with Hillary's ABUSE OF THE RULES is that she was "too big to jail" https://t.co/CM8TeuAKo0

— Dustin Stockton (@DustinStockton) August 18, 2016

Hillary violated the rules w/ a sense of impunity, deleting half of her emails as "private", which raises serious questions. #GreenTownHall

— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) August 18, 2016

Stein took direct aim at the central theme of Hillary’s campaign — that she’s a woman — by attacking the Democrat nominee as not being a real feminist

Jill Stein just said that Hillary isn't a real feminist and that she won't be able to sleep at night if she's elected. #GreenTownHall

— Dustin Stockton (@DustinStockton) August 18, 2016

In my mind, Hillary's policies that devastated the social safety net and promoted war around the world are not feminist. #GreenTownHall

— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) August 18, 2016

CC: @HillaryClinton https://t.co/XJ5Dx22Z56

— Dustin Stockton (@DustinStockton) August 18, 2016

Finally, she attacked Hillary for moving to the right instead of appealing to left-wing supporters of Bernie Sanders.

Now Clinton has been moving to the right and courting Republicans instead of addressing the issues that Bernie brought up. #GreenTownHall

— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) August 18, 2016

The other major theme that Stein focused on was courting supporters of Bernie Sanders. She started by parroting many complaints about the “rigged” process revealed in the leak of the Democrat National Convention showing the DNC openly supporting Hillary during the primary instead of remaining neutral.

At DNC, Bernie supporters were suppressed and silenced so the Clinton campaign could put on a show of unity for the cameras. #GreenTownHall

— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) August 18, 2016

Bernie and his supporters did everything right, but the playing field was steeply tilted against them. #GreenTownHall

— Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) August 18, 2016

When asked a question from a Bernie supporter she made her case.

Jill Stein on why Bernie supporters should jump to her campaign. https://t.co/Vjf3rr5pNy https://t.co/M4f18Lgs9h

— CNN (@CNN) August 18, 2016

The reaction on social media from Bernie supporters appeared to be overwhelmingly positive.

Wow, amazing when Jill's asked a question, she gives a complete and honest answer. Hillary never does that. #GreenTownHall

— Pardon Assange (@MalyndaNyc) August 18, 2016

That is what she talked about during her acceptance speech at the Dem convention. War is SURE thing with Hillary. #GreenTownHall

— Gina (@scaredpair) August 18, 2016

First time since @SenSanders that I am EXCITED to vote for a candidate @DrJillStein #GreenTownHall #JillNotHill

— diana argeris (@casaquepaz) August 18, 2016

Independent voters and those with student debt can #FlipTheVote #GreenTownHall

— progressively woke (@FeelingBern) August 18, 2016

#BernieSanders #FeelTheBern #OurRevolution #JillStein #JillNotHill {#Clinton #Trump} #MSMbias #GreenTownHall q https://t.co/Sjc1bcmSgE

— Alain Cornet (@CarlAntoine) August 18, 2016

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Dustin Stockton is a political reporter for Breitbart News, a community liaison for Gun Owners of America, and a political strategist. Follow him on Twitter @DustinStockton or  Facebook.