Jill Stein said she’d be willing to forgo a second consecutive Green Party nomination for Bernie Sanders. | Getty Green Party leader invites Sanders onto the ticket Jill Stein says she would step aside if Sanders joined her third-party movement.

PHILADELPHIA – Bernie Sanders has another presidential nomination available to him if he wants it.

Jill Stein, the presumptive presidential nominee from the Green Party, said Monday night that she’d cede her spot atop the White House ticket to Sanders if he was willing to flip his allegiance and join her cause.


“I myself would be perfectly happy as far as I’m concerned to step aside and allow him to run for that position if he truly became a proponent for revolutionary politics inside the Green Party,” Stein told a small group of reporters Monday night sheltering under I-95 during a heavy storm that swept across Philadelphia.

Stein had been addressing a group of more than 1,000 in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park just outside the Wells Fargo Arena security perimeter when rain and lightning forced attendees to seek cover. As a vocal mix of Sanders and Stein supporters cheered, beat drums and captured one of the more unusual press avail venues of the 2016 cycle, Stein lit into the Democratic Party for the recent email revelations showing its leaders had strategized against Sanders and then called on him to withdraw his Clinton endorsement.

Then Stein said she’d be willing to forgo a second consecutive Green Party nomination and let Sanders take over the group’s leadership mantle.

“If Bernie Sanders had a change of heart and he saw the light, the green light, that the greens are the way forward for his revolution,” Stein said. “If he truly became a proponent for independent third party politics I think there’s no end to what we could do with Bernie running the green party.”

The Green Party of the United States is set to meet Aug. 4-7 in Houston for its national convention.