Posted on 12/14/2023 5:43:26 PM PST by Libloather
Presidential candidate Cornel West is brushing off concerns that his independent run will hurt Joe Biden among key constituencies, describing his campaing against 'civic collapse' and American 'empire' as an effort to persuade Trump voters to join his crusade.
'I’m trying to convince people thinking about voting for Trump into voting for me,' West said Thursday.
'But I don't go in thinking about whether I'm helping or hurting someone else,' said West, a prominent public intellectual and left wing activist who is running as an independent after abandoning an effort to capture the Green Party nomination.
'To me, brother Donald Trump is a bonafide gangster and a neo-fascist – been that for a long time, so I understand the fears,' he said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in Washington.
'Brother Biden has a military adventurism as part and parcel of his past and present. So we end up with two candidates, for me both beneath mediocrity even though Biden's got some positive features that Trump doesn't have. But the Trump bar is so low,' he said.
'We got one is pushing us toward a second Civil War at home, and the other is pushing us toward a World War III abroad,' he said of Trump and Biden.
West's comments about the role of his own and other third party candidates come as some recent polls showing independent candidacies eating away at Biden's support when compared to a head-to-head race with Trump.
Some show independents like West pulling more support from young voters away from Biden. Those 18-29 were a key part of his winning coalition in 2020, and there are signs that the support is fraying.
West was drawing 2 per cent in Georgia, 2 per cent in Michigan, and 3 per cent in Wisconsin in a new...
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The stupid is wicked with this guy. You’d be hard pressed to find more of a bigot.
Lol OK Cornel.
He’s an idiot.
Look,
If anybody can do that he can.
His nickname should be Corn-Ball West.
I don’t believe he’s seriously running for the nomination.
Either he has a book coming up next year, and this is great publicity, or, like Kid Rock, he just wants to see how far he can push it, before stepping back to have a big belly laugh at any people who were fooled.
Jimmy Dore roasted his arse.
Gotta see it on Dore’s YouTube channel.
West is a Race Hustling Pimp, and always has been.
Yes, You.
I don't suppose any likely Trump voters could be flipped by this guy calling Trump a "neo-fascist"?
I will only say he is suffering from delusions of competence, but that is no disqualification for running for president.
He’d make a great character on “Sanford and Son”.
He’s on the Ralph Nader plan, every 4 years you can buy a new suit.
But he is a professor!!!! and Dr. Jill is a doctor.
Marching orders. Just send him $10 like I did. If there traction send him $100.
Cornell’s tattered Race Card rhetoric is Unsafe @ Any Speed.
**Off Topic;
Did you know that Ralph Nader is 89 years old?
I had no idea. He always seemed forever young and obnoxious.
A Jurrasic version of Paul Ryan.
That’s right my brother! Tell ‘em. Never leave the race, they want to steal your voice!
is this his comedy routine?
West is a bit behind the times. Dems abandoned liberalism a decade ago and most seem to be full bore fascists now. If Dem voters believe Trump is the second coming of Mussolini, Biden is toast.
Good luck with that, comrade.
When Hell freezes over.
Worthless commie arsehole.
Stay in your anti Semitic racist stronghold in the city of evil.
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