Democrats ripped for trying to 'kill democracy' with effort to protect Biden, silence third-party candidates

FIRST ON FOX: Democrats are taking heat over their efforts to protect President Biden's re-election chances by trying to silence third-party and independent presidential candidates.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's campaign lashed out at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over its creation of a new team to actively combat her candidacy, as well as that of independent presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Dr. Cornel West.

"Rather than try to take away ballot options that would better represent the interests of the American public, perhaps the Democratic Party should focus on passing legislation that would actually help struggling people such as a universal single-payer healthcare program or guaranteed housing," Stein campaign manager Jason Call told Fox News Digital during an interview.

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"Sadly, both major political parties in America are fully beholden to the corporate interests which fund the political system," he said.

Call argued that third parties, particularly the Green Party, were "a challenge to that system of corporate hegemony which seeks to deny the general public their own collective power," and went on to flip Democrats' ad nauseam rhetoric about "saving democracy" against them.

"If this is the plan Democrats intend to use, to tie up third-party campaigns with trumped-up legalese, or to change rules midstream because they are afraid of losing voters to candidates who better represent their values and priorities, I don’t know how that can be considered an exercise in democracy. The Democrats appear willing to kill democracy in order to ‘save it,'" he said.

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