West announced his candidacy via social media on 5 June, first with the People’s party before switching to the Green party. If Cornel West is worried about being a spoiler whose candidacy might let Donald Trump back into the White House by stealing votes from President Joe Biden, he isn’t showing it.
The 70-year-old former Harvard and Princeton professor is running in next year’s presidential election as an independent with a message more likely, on the face of it, to appeal to disillusioned Democrats than anti-Trump Republicans. (West launched his campaign in June as a Green party candidate, but dropped […]
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