US Green Party offers nomination to Bernie Sanders

US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been invited to join the Green Party, after being forced to end his bid in favor of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

“If Sanders repudiates the Democratic Party that betrayed him, I'd welcome him into Green Party to continue the revolution,” Jill Stein, the party’s presidential candidate said in a tweet on Saturday.

Stein made the comments only a day after the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks uncovered a secret plot by top leaders at the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) to undermine Sanders’ bid to win the party’s 2016 presidential nomination.

More than 19,000 emails leaked by the website supports claims by the Sanders campaign that the DNC and its Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz sided with Clinton, who was also favored by President Barack Obama.

The emails showed how some DNC officials tried to deal with the Vermont senator’s popularity, which posed a direct challenge to the former first lady.

An email from May 21 shows DNC press secretary Mark Paustenbach and communications director Luis Miranda talking about misleading the media into thinking that the Sanders’ “campaign was a mess.”

In another case, DNC CFO Brad Marshall appeared to be questioning Sanders’ faith, a factor that he said would affect primary voters in Kentucky and West Virginia at the time.

The leak “shows revolution can't survive in a counter-revolutionary party,” Stein said while promoting herself as the right person to run the country.

“Don't let establishment bully you into supporting corporate warmongers,” Stein added in another tweet.

This is not the first time the Green Party candidate has made such proposals to the Vermont senator. Stein invited Sanders to join her party and continue her presidential bid earlier this month, before Sanders’ endorsement of his arch-rival.

"I’ve invited Bernie to sit down explore collaboration — everything is on the table,” Stein told the British daily Guardian. “If he saw that you can’t have a revolutionary campaign in a counter-revolutionary party, he’d be welcomed to the Green party. He could lead the ticket and build a political movement.”

Throughout the primary campaign, Sanders said times and again that he will remain in the race until the party convention which will begin on July 25.

However, he endorsed Clinton after facing mounting pressure from major Democratic figures, including Obama himself.

On July 12, 2016, Sanders formally endorsed his opponent after facing mounting pressure from major Democratic figures, but has yet to suspend his own presidential campaign.

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