{"id":1971072,"date":"2023-07-12T17:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-democrats-worried-about-cornel-wests-third-party-2024-bid\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T17:01:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:01:39","slug":"some-democrats-worried-about-cornel-wests-third-party-2024-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-democrats-worried-about-cornel-wests-third-party-2024-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns arise among Democrats over Cornel West&#8217;s independent run in 2024."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsome-democrats-worried-about-cornel-wests-third-party-2024-bid%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=1971072&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--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0712\/d6b005d1-1bc9-4d79-9091-e89a0a2f39ce\/audio.mp3?length=4088493&#038;duration=341\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Democratic Officials Express Concerns About Cornel West&#8217;s 2024 Presidential Bid<\/h2>\n<p>Democratic officials and strategists have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-ice-cube-drops-sony-movie-oh-hell-no-after-refusing-covid-19-vaccine\/\" title=\"Report: Ice Cube Drops Sony Movie 'Oh Hell No' After Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine\">publicly expressed reservations<\/a> about former Harvard University professor Cornel West\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pence-undergoes-surgery-to-implant-pacemaker\/\" title=\"Pence Undergoes Surgery To Implant Pacemaker\">2024 presidential bid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the time in order to experiment. This is not the time to play around on the margins,\u201d warned Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison, a close ally of President Joe Biden, over the weekend, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>After Hillary Clinton was defeated by former President Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign, some Democrats claimed that Green Party nominee Jill Stein caused Mrs. Clinton to lose the presidency. Mrs. Stein drew about 460,000 votes, or about 1 percent of the popular vote, during that election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2016, the Green Party played an outsized role in tipping the election to Donald Trump,\u201d wrote David Axelrod, a former Obama administration strategist, in a Twitter post. He echoed Mr. Harrison\u2019s statement in saying that \u201cwith Cornel West as [the Green Party\u2019s] likely nominee, they could easily do it again. Risky business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he runs a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-democrats-worried-about-cornel-wests-third-party-2024-bid\/\" title=\"Concerns arise among Democrats over Cornel West's independent run in 2024.\">progressive campaign seeking<\/a> the Green Party nomination, Mr. West\u2019s platform is centered around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-house-republicans-call-on-sheila-jackson-lee-to-hold-hearing-over-democrats-pushes-to-defund-police\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: House Republicans Call On Sheila Jackson Lee To Hold Hearing Over Democrats\u2019 Pushes To Defund Police\">left-wing proposals<\/a>, and some have said that he could cut into President Joe Biden\u2019s 2024 bid among younger voters and black voters. Mr. West, who is black, also has been sharply critical of the United States and NATO involvement in Ukraine following Russia\u2019s invasion last year.<\/p>\n<p>In comments over the weekend, Mr. Harrison said that he believes Mr. West is only running to stay relevant. \u201cWhat we see is a lot of folks who want to be relevant and try to be relevant in these elections and not looking at the big picture,\u201d he said, reiterating: \u201cWe got to reelect Joe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, not all Democrats believe Mr. West will be a detriment to Mr. Biden\u2019s chances.<\/p>\n<h3>Rep. Ro Khanna: Cornel West May &#8220;Ultimately Help&#8221; Biden<\/h3>\n<p>Rep. Ro Khanna (R-Calif.), the former campaign co-chair of Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019s (I-Vt.) 2020 campaign, told Politico that the third-party candidate may \u201cultimately help\u201d Mr. Biden, saying that he \u201cwill bring more people into the process and push for progressive policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. has a long history of issue candidates who run in order to bring attention to important principles and ideas. I welcome Cornel West entering the race to make this country more just for all,\u201d he told the outlet. But Mr. Khanna said that he wasn\u2019t endorsing Mr. West and is supporting the president\u2019s reelection chances.<\/p>\n<p>As for Mrs. Stein, she told Forbes magazine last week that Mr. West, a self-described socialist, is \u201cthe right person for America\u201d during the 2024 contest in an interview over the past weekend. She also said she doesn\u2019t believe she was responsible for Mrs. Clinton\u2019s 2016 loss, saying that \u201cnobody owns our votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Mr. West said in June that he would run as a member of The People\u2019s Party but later said he would compete for the Green Party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn these bleak times, I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for president of the United States as a candidate for the People\u2019s Party,\u201d Mr. West stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic officials and strategists are skeptical of Cornel West&#8217;s 2024 presidential campaign. Jaime Harrison, a trusted ally of President Biden and the Democratic National Committee Chairman, cautioned against experimentation and playing on the fringes during these critical times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1971073,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1971072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/1971072","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1971072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1971072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1971072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1971072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}