Cornel West launches 2024 presidential run, vows to ‘go down fighting’

[Kamaji]

Cornel West launches 2024 presidential run, vows to ‘go down fighting’

By Steven Nelson
June 5, 2023

WASHINGTON — Prominent left-wing activist and professor Cornel West launched an independent 2024 presidential campaign Monday — saying he was on a “quest for justice” and would “go down fighting.”

West, 70, announced in a tweeted video that he was running as the candidate of the People’s Party, a move that could cause headaches for Democrats due to his substantial name recognition and charismatic denunciations of status quo politics.

“I enter in the quest for truth. I enter in the quest for justice. And the presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth and justice, what I’ve been trying to do all of my life,” said West, a longtime professor at Harvard and Princeton who currently sits on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in upper Manhattan.

“I care about whether you have access to a job with a living wage, decent housing, women having control over their bodies, health care for all, the escalating destruction of the planet, the destruction of American democracy,” West said in his launch video.

“Democracy creates disruption, it creates an eruption, it creates an interruption wide from below the energies of everyday people as manifest — and I know there are precious people in your life, who you care for. That’s why it’s important for you to be involved, important for you to participate.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/05/cornel-west-launches-2024-presidential-run/

[Kamaji]

[Fishrrman]

More power to him.

He may actually steal a percentage point or two of votes from the DCommunist candidate, whoever that is (and it's almost certainly not gonna be ol' white joe!)...

[DB]

A "democracy" is mob rule.

Our constitutional republic protects people from mob rule.

[Gefn]

Bkmk

[mystery-ak]

Cornel West launches 2024 presidential campaign
by Mabinty Quarshie, National Politics Correspondent |
June 05, 2023 02:58 PM

Philosopher and scholar Cornel West announced on Monday that he was launching a 2024 presidential campaign with the People’s Party, a progressive third-party group. He will join an increasing number of long-shot candidates seeking the White House, including Democrats Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself — fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for all!" West tweeted in a video post. "Join the movement at http://CornelWest24.com!!"

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/cornel-west-running-president

[Mod5]

Merged.

[LMAO]

Cornel West launches 2024 presidential campaign
by Mabinty Quarshie, National Politics Correspondent |
June 05, 2023 02:58 PM

Philosopher and scholar Cornel West announced on Monday that he was launching a 2024 presidential campaign with the People’s Party, a progressive third-party group. He will join an increasing number of long-shot candidates seeking the White House, including Democrats Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself — fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for all!" West tweeted in a video post. "Join the movement at http://CornelWest24.com!!"

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/cornel-west-running-president

IOW's, he's fighting for more inflation, more crime, more regulation to bury the US economy, more economic collapse,more indoctrination(he calls it education)......

[Smokin Joe]

A "democracy" is mob rule.

Our constitutional republic protects people from mob rule.

Unfortunaely, the mob does not appear to be listening...

[jmyrlefuller]

Third party candidate.

Yeah, this ought to go as well as the Socialist Workers Party, the Workers of the World Party, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, etc...

[mountaineer]

Trump Leading President in Key Swing States, Biden Losing Votes to Cornel West: Poll
The survey found that philosopher Cornel West, who is seeking the Green Party nomination, would be more likely to take voters from President Biden than President Trump.
RUSSELL PAYNE
Thursday, July 6, 202314:48:57 pm

A new survey suggests that President Trump might enjoy an advantage in some of the swing states that were key to President Biden’s 2020 victory if he wins the Republican nomination for president.

A survey from Echelon Insights of 1,020 voters found that in a head-to-head matchup between Messrs. Trump and Biden, Mr. Biden would be the slight favorite, carrying 45 percent of the vote to Mr. Trump’s 44 percent, a result within the poll’s 3.9 percent margin of error.

Among the 395 voters surveyed in battleground states, though, the poll found that Mr. Trump enjoys an advantage. In these battleground states, 48 percent of respondents reported supporting Mr. Trump compared to 41 percent who said they would back Mr. Biden. In 2024, states like Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Michigan, and Arizona will be key for either party to secure the electoral votes needed to win the presidency.

The poll also found that Mr. Biden would lose more support from a potential third-party candidate than Mr. Trump. When including philosopher Cornel West in the race, the poll found that Mr. West would carry 4 percent support, Mr. Biden would carry 42 percent, and Mr. Trump would carry 43 percent. Another 11 percent is still undecided.

As the Sun has reported, any potential third-party or independent candidate would likely draw more voters from Mr. Biden than Mr. Trump and could be a major liability for Mr. Biden’s campaign.

Mr. West’s candidacy could have a similar impact in the 2024 election to activist Ralph Nader’s Green Party run in 2000. That year, Mr. Nader received more than 97,000 votes in the state of Florida, more than enough to swing the election in either direction.

In 2020, though, early third-party challenges petered out by Election Day. The Green Party nominee, Howie Hawkins, polled at about 1 percent support through the campaign, only to receive less than 0.26 percent support nationally in the final tally.

The Libertarian Party carried the most of any third-party or independent bid in 2020: Its nominee, Jo Jorgensen, carried 1.18 percent of the popular vote on Election Day.

The recent Echelon Insights poll didn’t collect data on any conservative third-party challengers, even though the Libertarian Party is currently in the early stages of its own primary.

In terms of the upcoming primary elections in the Republican and Democratic parties, Messrs. Trump and Biden are clear favorites in their respective competitions.

The survey found that Mr. Trump would carry 49 percent support in a hypothetical Republican primary held today. Governor DeSantis would come in second place with 16 percent support. Activist Vivek Ramaswamy would come in third place with 10 percent support.

On the Democratic side, Mr. Biden enjoys 65 percent support in a hypothetical Democratic primary, with attorney Robert Kennedy Jr. carrying 14 percent and activist Marianne Williamson at 4 percent.

NY Sun

[sneakypete]

Well,West can now kiss "Good Bye" to all that talk show "easy money" he has been getting for years as the token "Knee Grow".

[libertybele]

A "democracy" is mob rule.

Our constitutional republic protects people from mob rule.

Well, it's supposed to anyways.

[mountaineer]

Well, it's supposed to anyways.

Yeah, I'm afraid those days are over.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Cornel West launches 2024 presidential campaign
by Mabinty Quarshie, National Politics Correspondent |
June 05, 2023 02:58 PM

Philosopher and scholar Cornel West...

Well that's a stretch....

[berdie]

The Peoples Party? How special.

[mountaineer]

Washington Examiner
@dcexaminer

"Cornel West owes more than half a million dollars in taxes to the federal government, dating back to 2005.

Onlookers should not laugh this off as another socialist hypocrite but instead have righteous anger at his privilege."
-@MattLamb22

Cornel West's tax hypocrisy
By Matt Lamb
August 15, 2023 06:00 AM

Cornel West

Professor and Green Party presidential candidate Cornel West owes more than half a million dollars in taxes to the federal government, dating back to 2005.

Onlookers should not laugh this off as another socialist hypocrite but instead have righteous anger at his privilege.

WRAY LIED ABOUT NOT TARGETING CATHOLICS

West appeared to confirm the Daily Beast reporting on his tax avoidance as true, even as he laughed it off and blamed it on his “gangster proclivities.” He’s actually not a gangster; he’s a high-earning college professor. If he were a gangster, he would go to jail for not paying his taxes, like Al Capone did.

“Any time you shine a flashlight under somebody’s clothes, you’re going to find a mess,” West said before going off on a tangent about how he would fight people for insulting his mother. He then said he doesn’t like “lying,” in apparent reference to a claim, which he disputed, that he owes $49,500 in child support.

It is not a laughing matter that West gets away with not paying his taxes. ...

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/cornel-wests-tax-hypocrisy

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

 

Split that vote, Cornel!

[Fishrrman]

Run, Cornell, run...!