The 2024 presidential election is heating up, though the election is year away. President Joe Biden will seek re-election, and his is already pandering to several demographics to sew up his return as president. Florida governor Ron DeSantis is attempting to “out-Trump” Donald Trump by waging war again woke Disney, banning books from Black authors in schools and generally sounding like the grinch who stole Christmas. Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is busy attacking Trump and DeSantis, but she likely will not get a response. Trump is busy being sued by officials from New York, to Washington DC to Atlantic Georgia, but he still found time to embarrass CNN on its much-publicized town hall.
Not willing to let Trump, DeSantis and Biden have all the fun, college professor and professional pundit Cornel West announced his bid for President. West will run as a candidate for the People’s Party and announced his candidacy on earlier today on Twitter:
In these bleak times I have decided to run for truth and justice which takes to form of running for President of the United States as a candidate for the People’s Party. I enter in a quest for truth, I enter the quest of justice and the presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth and justice, what I’ve been trying to do all of my life. I come from a tradition where I care about you. I care about the quality of your life. I care about whether you have access to a job with a living wage, decent housing, women having control over their bodies, healthcare for all, de-escalating the destruction of the planet, the destruction of American democracy.
West’s fiery words foreshadowed he was running on a economic populist platform – the same platform Trump ran on in 2016, but later abandoned after he won the election. There are several narratives surrounding West’s campaign. Can a third party candidate make noise the way Bernie Sanders and Ross Perot did in prior years? Will he siphon votes away from Biden, opening up a pathway for Trump to make a return to the oval office? Is West a legitimate candidate or does he simply crave the spotlight and the paid speaking fees that will likely pile up after he loses? Stay tuned …
