“I just see both of them as so thoroughly unacceptable,” West said in a wide-ranging interview, referring to Biden and Trump.
Cornel West, a third-party presidential candidate, speaks at a pro-Palestinian interfaith event called “Gaza Endures” at Greenfield Manor in Dearborn, Mich., on Dec. 19. To hear Cornel West tell it, Joe Biden, whom West campaigned for in 2020, is complicit in war crimes occurring in Gaza. Jill Stein, whom West voted for in 2016, is no longer his ally. Donald Trump is a “fascist pied piper” and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
dismissed Biden’s consolidating support among progressive leaders, who have argued that even if they don’t agree on everything, a second Biden term is better than a Trump return. West’s salt-and-pepper Afro shook as he decried voters’ options.The Biden, Trump and Kennedy campaigns and Sanders’s Senate office
West announced his bid for president before the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel but said he has since felt that his voice is needed to bring attention to the Palestinians and other issues he prioritizes.
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