Green party's Stein blames Democrats for 'disastrous' Trump win

Nov. 10 (UPI) - This year's Green Party presidential candidate, Jill Stein , has blamed Democrats for their election loss, and has said the two party political system in the U.S. is broken.

She said Democrats have no one but themselves to blame for another "disastrous" Trump victory.

"Once again the two-party system has delivered a disastrous result for the American people," Stein wrote in a social media post . "Now we must continue the uprising for people-powered politics and demand the world we deserve - which will never be delivered by the two parts of war and Wall Street."

Stein and other third party advocates have continually called to reject the two-party system in the U.S. As of July, 157 Greens were holding elected office across the U.S. 1529 U.S. Greens have been elected all time, according to GP.org , the Green Party website.

This year, Stein garnered 18% of the vote in Dearborn, Mich. , a strongly Arab-American community. She received her biggest portion of votes in New Jersey. Overall, Stein won .8% of the vote in the state with 44,671 of the ballots cast.

Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris by about 83,000 votes, 49.7% to 48.3%, to win Michigan, so her candidacy is not seen as having affected the outcome there, but did raise issues important to third-party candidates, such as Israel's war with Hamas, concern over climate change, social justice and campaign finance reform.

In an unusual move, Stein held a victory party in Dearborn on election night citing her success in the city, and said that it wasn't numbers that mattered but the sentiment that some voters had expressed against the traditional two party system in favor of her Green Party candidacy.