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Why Cornel West’s candidacy could hand the White House to the GOP

By Elizabeth Stauffer
Published June 8, 2023 9:00am ET
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Why Cornel West’s candidacy could hand the White House to the GOP
Harvard professor and philosopher Cornel West, left, address an audience in front of a projected image of former NFL football quarterback Colin Kaepernick, before presenting Kaepernick with the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal during ceremonies, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Kaepernick is among eight recipients of Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Medals in 2018. Harvard has awarded the medal since 2000 to people whose work has contributed to African and African-American culture. | (AP Photo/Steven Senne)


Far-left activist Cornel West announced his decision to run for president as a candidate for the People’s Party on Monday in a Twitter video. West, 70, is a former Harvard University public philosophy professor and a professor emeritus at Princeton University.

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