Biden challenger West confident president 'running out of gas' and won't be Democrats' nominee
by Eden Villalovas, Breaking News Reporter
December 15, 2023 08:13 AM
Independent presidential candidate Cornel West said he doesn’t think he will be competing against President Joe Biden in the 2024 general election, adding he believes the president may drop his bid for a second term.
West, who left the Green Party to launch an independent run in October, said Biden might take the same path former President Lyndon B. Johnson did in 1968 when he opted not to run for reelection after holding the front-runner spot for the Democratic nomination early in the election season.
“I’m not even sure whether I’ll be running against Biden,” West said in an interview with Politico. “Biden — I think he’s going to have an LBJ moment [and] pull back.”
West said he could be running against two prominent blue-state governors who have been floated as Biden’s backups but refused to launch a bid: Govs. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI).
Newsom has repeatedly denied rumors he will jump into the race for president in 2024, supporting Biden’s reelection amid allegations that the California governor is running a shadow presidential campaign.
Appearing on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Wednesday, Newsom again confirmed, “I’m not running for president,” before taking a shot at Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), whom he recently debated on Fox News, adding, “Ron DeSantis, apparently, still is.”
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