US Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says she’s riding a wave of support unlike anything she’s experienced in past campaigns — and is unfazed by warnings that her run could tip the scales in Donald Trump’s favor in a tight race.
Speaking to AFP after polls closed in Michigan, where her outspoken criticism of US support for Israel has struck a chord with the battleground state’s large Muslim and Arab-American communities, the 74-year-old took aim at Democrats for branding her a “spoiler.”
“This is self-serving propaganda,” said Stein at a watch party in Dearborn, home to the United States’ largest concentration of people of Middle Eastern heritage.
“They’re basically trying to blame and shame voters for exercising their values and for participating in the competition that elections are supposed to represent.”
Democrat Kamala Harris is locked in an extremely tight race against Trump, including in Michigan, and her supporters …