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Democratic jitters grow over Cornel West’s third-party bid (thehill.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cornel West recently announced he is running for president as a Green Party candidate, challenging President Biden in 2024. Some Democrats worry that West's candidacy could split the progressive vote and help reelect Donald Trump if he is the Republican nominee again, as Jill Stein's campaign did in 2016. However, West has supporters who see his run as a way to push Biden further left on issues. Still, even some progressives acknowledge West could hurt Biden's chances of reelection. Democrats argue that beating Trump and enacting progressive policies requires electing Democrats first.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

OK, so you want to have your cake an eat it by implicitly accusing her while saying you just don't know.

Anyway, I think you're giving the American voters too much credit if you think they couldn't elect Trump without Russia's help. You're also vastly overstating the size and influence of the Internet Research Agency. If it truly was a Russian attempt to influence US politics, it was a deeply unserious one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 20216 election was incredibly close. It doesn't take much to influence the final result with narrow margins, especially when considering our archaic voting system which significantly over-represents less populated areas (i.e. changing a few hundred votes in one district can be more influential than another district with 10x as many voters if all of those voters are more politically consistent).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There were plenty of other factors that may have pushed Trump over the line, and most of them come down to Hillary being a bad candidate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

RE: "oh, so you want..."

I'm not really into argument-by-psychic-powers-or-psychoanalysis so when you open your reply by telling me you've read my mind, I'm done.