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...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
He looked possessed recently when yelling about Israel.
This guy is an @$$clown.
West is a stinking old commie and looks/smells like it. One of the key leaders of the MARXIST Democratic Socialists of America.
How do you spell “traitor”?
And while you are at it Mr. West, why not change your first name to Cornhole?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.