Top Obama strategist warns Democrats about another third-party threat to Biden re-election: 'Alarm bells'
Kyle Morris
A previous senior adviser to former President Barack Obama is warning Democrats about a potential threat to President Biden's re-election campaign from third-party candidates like Cornel West, a 2024 Green Party presidential candidate.
David Axelrod, who served as a top adviser to Obama for two years in the White House before becoming the senior strategist for Obama's successful 2012 re-election campaign, is questioning "why alarm bells aren’t going off" for Democrats amid mounting concern over West's candidacy in the race.
Ever since he announced last month he would make a run for the White House as a third-party candidate, West, a progressive activist and philosopher, has largely been dismissed by Democrats as a serious candidate as they work to shore up support for Biden ahead of the 2024 election.
Axelrod, however, insists Democrats should be taking challenges like West's to the incumbent president seriously.
"This is going to sneak up on people," Axelrod, a CNN political commentator, said this week. "I don’t know why alarm bells aren’t going off now, and they should be at a steady drumbeat from now until the election."
Similar to Axelrod, Pennsylvania Democratic Lt. Gov. Austin Davis said his party "should be concerned" about the implications of West's candidacy.
"We should be concerned. I don’t think time’s necessarily on our side. The longer these things hang out there, the worse it tends to get," said Davis, according to CNN. "We should try to deal with it rather quickly if we can."
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