{"id":1944751,"date":"2023-06-05T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spoiler-alert-prominent-leftist-scholar-announces-3rd-party-presidential-run\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T18:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:35:49","slug":"spoiler-alert-prominent-leftist-scholar-announces-3rd-party-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spoiler-alert-prominent-leftist-scholar-announces-3rd-party-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Alert? Prominent Leftist Scholar Announces 3rd-Party Presidential Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspoiler-alert-prominent-leftist-scholar-announces-3rd-party-presidential-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944751&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Prominent Leftist Scholar Cornel West Announces 3rd-Party Presidential Run<\/h2>\n<p>Get ready for a new contender in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-desantis-beats-trump-in-2024-straw-poll-at-top-conservative-summit\/\" title=\"BREAKING: DeSantis Beats Trump In 2024 Straw Poll At Top Conservative Summit\">2024 presidential race<\/a>! Scholar and progressive activist Cornel West has announced that he will be running for president as a third-party candidate. West aims to empower people who have been \u201cpushed to the margins\u201d and will be running as a member of the People\u2019s Party, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spoiler-alert-prominent-leftist-scholar-announces-3rd-party-presidential-run\/\" title=\"Leftist scholar announces third-party presidential run. Possible spoiler alert.\">left-wing organization formed<\/a> in 2017 by Nick Brana.<\/p>\n<p>West is a well-known scholar and author and a former professor at Harvard and Princeton universities. He has criticized both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-parliament-votes-unanimously-to-recognize-chinas-genocide\/\" title=\"Canadian Parliament Votes Unanimously To Recognize China\u2019s Genocide\">major political parties<\/a> and their standard bearers, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, both of whom are running again in 2024.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People\u2019s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself \u2013 fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u3NYGUbG1S\">pic.twitter.com\/u3NYGUbG1S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cornel West (@CornelWest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CornelWest\/status\/1665743761551548416?\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On his campaign website, West has outlined his vision for the country, which includes ending wars, disbanding NATO, forgiving all student debt, expanding Social Security, and investing in clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>Third-party candidates face serious hurdles, including getting their names on ballots in each state. However, having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/antifa-leftists-get-censored-by-social-media-platforms\/\" title=\"Antifa, leftists get censored by social media platforms\">prominent leftist<\/a> on the ballot is likely to draw votes away from the Democratic nominee in the general election.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Presidential Candidates<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to Biden and Trump, several other candidates are making 2024 presidential bids. Among Republicans, former Vice President Mike Pence launched his campaign on Monday, joining a GOP primary field that already includes Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, talk-radio host Larry Elder, tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and author Marianne Williamson are challenging Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for more updates on the 2024 presidential race!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholar and progressive activist Cornel West announced Monday he is running for president next year as a third-party candidate. West said he wants to empower people who have been \u201cpushed to the margins.\u201d In a Twitter video, the 70-year-old academic and social critic said he will run as a member of the People\u2019s Party, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1944752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[20815,28370,8741,4156,4717,3849,5753,11641],"class_list":["post-1944751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-spoiler","tag-3rd-party","tag-alert","tag-announces","tag-leftist","tag-presidential","tag-prominent","tag-scholar"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}