Editors' pick: Originally published Oct. 14.

Jill Stein sees little difference between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and she wants you to know it.

As the presidential race neared fever pitch this week, the Green Party candidate took her message to a rally in New York City. She repeatedly warned the crowd of about 200 of the rise of the "new Demo-Republican," capitalizing on Democrats' overtures to Republicans repulsed by Trump's over-the-top rhetoric and ideas.

"The Republican leadership has all moved into the Democratic Party and are supporting Hillary Clinton. So we say to those liberal Democrats, what exactly is it that you are telling us we are supposed to be supporting? The new, friendly version of the Republican Party?" she said.

Stein, 66, mixed both positive and negative messaging throughout the evening. She took swipes at both Trump and Clinton while at the same time highlighting proposals of her own: her "Green New Deal," Wall Street reform and a pullback on foreign aggression.

"Even if we do not win the office, we can win the day...by standing up and by creating the political opposition party of by and for the people," said Stein, a retired medical doctor who lives in Lexington, Mass.

The main plan of action for Stein and her running mate, Ajamu Baraka, has been to peel of disaffected liberals, especially those who during the primaries supported Bernie Sanders. She traveled to Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention in July to appeal to the Sanders supporters who protested outside the convention hall.

Sanders has endorsed Clinton and hit the campaign trail for her as well. Stein on Wednesday acknowledged the Vermont senator "has his loyalties, for whatever reason," to the Democrats while invoking an argument Sanders himself has used to convince supporters riding the Bernie-or-Bust train to hop off of it.

"It's a movement, it's not a man," she said. "Now we are burning green together."

A number of speakers took the stage before Stein, including Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner, a New York man who died in 2014 after being put in a chokehold by police. "The curtain is being pulled back on both major political parties for us to see them for what they really are," she said, adding that she will be voting for the Stein-Baraka ticket come November.

Baraka, a 62-year-old Chicago native, told the audience he sees a "new kind of political alignment" taking place in America. "We are the ones on the right side of history," he said.

Stein spoke with TheStreet before the rally about her take on the election. "How could it get crazier?" she said.

She also discussed how she would approach the financial sector. "We need to have the old-fashioned kind of investment, which was not about gambling and not about turning around a quick buck with some mathematical formulas but rather actually investing in our economy and growing the real economy, not the financialized economy," she said.