Green Party nominee Jill Stein won’t be quietly sitting out the presidential debate.
Ms. Stein, who hovering around 3 percent in most polls didn’t qualify for a spot on the debate stage at Hofstra University in New York, staged an “Occupy the Debates” protest Monday outside the university gates.
Green Party supporters also called it an “Open Debates” protest.
“What do want? Open debates! When do we want it? Now!” chanted a crowd at the demonstration, which was streamed live on Twitter’s Periscope app.
Earlier, Ms. Stein was escorted out of the debate hall by police when she couldn’t show proper credentials, ABC News reported.
Ms. Stein tweeted that she was on campus “doing an interview” when police loaded her and her entourage into a van and drove them off campus. She earlier claimed to have credentials to do interviews in media filing center.
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“Two police SUVs just pulled up and @MSNBC was questioned even though they had credentials for us at Hofstra,” tweeted Ms. Stein.
She quickly followed it up tweeting: “After being escorted from Hofstra campus for doing an interview, police put us in a van which was stopped not once, but twice.”
Ms. Stein’s campaign said she will answer the same questions live on Periscope when the debate begins at 9 p.m.
Her supporters had boasted that they planned to “escort” her into the debate and attempt to put her on the stage. Instead, Ms. Stein was escorted out.
The debate only included Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump because Ms. Stein and Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson failed to get 15 percent support in polls.
Ms. Stein was arrested for a similar protest in 2012 outside Hofstra University during the debate between President Obama and GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
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• S.A. Miller can be reached at smiller@washingtontimes.com.
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