Editors' pick: Originally published Oct. 14.

Jill Stein sees little difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and she wants you to know it.

As the presidential race neared fever pitch this week, the Green Party candidate took her message to a rally in New York City. She repeatedly warned the crowd of about 200 of the rise of the "new Demo-Republican," capitalizing on Democrats' overtures to Republicans repulsed by Trump's over-the-top rhetoric and ideas.

"The Republican leadership has all moved into the Democratic Party and are supporting Hillary Clinton. So we say to those liberal Democrats, what exactly is it that you are telling us we are supposed to be supporting? The new, friendly version of the Republican Party?" she said.

Stein, 66, mixed both positive and negative messaging throughout the evening. She took swipes at both Trump and Clinton while at the same time highlighting proposals of her own: her "Green New Deal," Wall Street reform and a pullback on foreign aggression.

"Even if we do not win the office, we can win the day...by standing up and by creating the political opposition party of by and for the people," said Stein, a retired medical doctor who lives in Lexington, Mass.

The main plan of action for Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, has been to peel of disaffected liberals, especially those who during the primaries supported Bernie Sanders. She traveled to Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention in July to appeal to the Sanders supporters who protested outside the convention hall.

Sanders has endorsed Clinton and hit the campaign trail for her as well. Stein on Wednesday acknowledged the Vermont senator "has his loyalties, for whatever reason," to the Democrats while invoking an argument Sanders himself has used to convince supporters riding the Bernie-or-Bust train to hop off of it.

"It's a movement, it's not a man," she said. "Now we are burning green together."

A number of speakers took the stage before Stein, including Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner, a New York man who died in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by police. "The curtain is being pulled back on both major political parties for us to see them for what they really are," she said, adding that she will be voting for the Stein-Baraka ticket come November.

Baraka, a 62-year-old Chicago native, told the audience he sees a "new kind of political alignment" taking place in America. "We are the ones on the right side of history," he said.

Stein spoke with TheStreet before the rally about her take on the election. "How could it get crazier?" she said.

She also discussed how she would approach the financial sector. "We need to have the old-fashioned kind of investment, which was not about gambling and not about turning around a quick buck with some mathematical formulas but rather actually investing in our economy and growing the real economy, not the financialized economy," she said.

Stein has not made major waves on the national stage this election cycle. According to a RealClearPolitics average of polls, she boasts 2.3% support nationally. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson is polling at 6.6%.

In an interview with TheStreet at the Hostos Community College Arts Center in the Bronx ahead of the rally, Baraka shed some insight onto one of his ticket's main goals: to reach 5% of the popular vote in 2016 so that in 2020 Green Party is eligible for public funding. "Here in this country, they make it very difficult for alternative parties to run," he said.

James Lane, 51-year-old supporter from Brooklyn who describes himself as a "Green Party media activist," acknowledged the unlikelihood of a Stein-Baraka victory but insisted that shouldn't deter voters.

"The only vote that's thrown away is one that's not cast," he said. "You have to vote your principles, vote your conscience, vote for someone that you know stands for the greater good, not the lesser evil."

Mario Diaz, a 49-year-old campus law enforcement officer from Queens, said he decided to support the Green Party because the Democrats and Republicans "are not fulfilling my dreams." He conjectured the press is at fault for Stein's failure to take off in the polls. "The media is not really covering them at all," he said.

When Stein has made headlines this election cycle, it hasn't always been for the best of reasons. Her statements on vaccines have raised eyebrows, and just this week she claimed Clinton is more dangerous than Trump on war and nuclear weapons, taking some by surprise. (Trump has reportedly asked why the U.S. doesn't use its nuclear weapons.)

At this week's rally, Stein showed no intention of slowing down. "I've been talking a lot, and I won't be quiet," she said.