Green Party nominee escorted off debate premises

Law enforcement officials have escorted Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein off the site of Monday night’s presidential debate, according to a new report.

Authorities asked Stein to leave Hofstra University ahead of the contest in Hempstead, N.Y., USA Today said.

{mosads}USA Today said Eliza Collins, one of its reporters, noticed Stein and her campaign boarding the media bus to Hofstra University earlier Monday.

I’m pretty sure Jill Stein just boarded the media bus at the Hofstra University #Debates2016

— Eliza Collins (@elizacollins1) September 26, 2016

Collins’s tweet caught the attention of Hofstra University security and Nassau County police, it said, as Stein is not credentialed for Monday evening’s event.

Stein’s campaign said officials told them they “would be escorted off campus immediately,” USA Today said.

“So that’s exactly what we did — we complied,” press secretary Meleiza Figueroa said. “We were there under legitimate pretenses.”

Figueroa said Stein was conducting interviews with multiple media outlets before her staff was asked to leave.

After being escorted from Hofstra campus for doing an interview, police put us in a van which was stopped not once, but twice. #debatenight pic.twitter.com/IgQJMoCNWZ

— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) September 26, 2016

Stein is now waiting at a location near Hofstra University, she continued, while “hundreds of supporters” are bused in.

Figueroa added that Stein’s fans will demonstrate for her entrance into the debate around 5:30 p.m. once they have all assembled.

“Our supporters are going to attempt to escort Jill in,” she said. “We are expecting they will be unsuccessful.”

Stein has vowed she will live stream her response to Monday night’s debate on Twitter in a protest outside the debate venue.

The Green Party nominee did not meet the Commission on Presidential Debates’s 15 percent threshold to participate in the contest.

Stein has repeatedly argued that inclusion in the presidential debates is essential for her odds of winning the White House.

Authorities arrested Stein in 2012 during the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Stein ultimately spent eight hours handcuffed to a chair during the Oct. 16, 2012, event, which also occurred at Hofstra University while she was the Green Party’s presidential nominee.