Some Democrats are concerned Jill Stein will siphon votes from the Democrat in a race with thin margins, tipping things toward Donald Trump. | AP Photo Stein: Trump and Clinton are 'two ways to commit suicide'

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein is refusing to express a preference for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, saying both would lead the United States into a dismal future.

“Hillary Clinton is not different enough from Donald Trump that she or the Democratic Party are going to save your job, save your life, or save the planet,” Jill Stein said in an interview with Al Jazeera English, excerpts of which were released Thursday.


“We have two ways to commit suicide here, and I say no thank you to them both," she added.

Some Democrats are concerned Stein, whose positions are largely to Clinton's left, will siphon votes from the Democrat in a race with thin margins, tipping things toward Trump. But Stein dismissed that argument, saying neither candidate is acceptable and voters should choose her instead.

"It’s not a matter of not liking them," Stein said. "It's that in this election, we're not just deciding what kind of a future we will have, but whether we will have future at all."

Polls suggest that thus far Stein's arguments have won over relatively few voters. She's failed to qualify for the first general election presidential debate, and a Reuters/Ipsos poll released Wednesday put her at just 2 percent support nationally. In the poll, she trailed Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson's 7 percent, Trump's 38 percent and Clinton's 42 percent.