Kellyanne Conway recently shared some of her thoughts on far-left Professor Cornel West’s candidacy.
During an appearance on FOX News on Tuesday, Conway suggested that West’s candidacy could decide the presidency in the same way Ross Perot did in 1992.
In other words, if Cornel West peels off enough votes from Biden, it could tip the race.
Transcript via Real clear politics:
KELLYANNE CONWAY: Even if you don’t run for president, as an outside candidate spoiler you can decide who the president is. This happened in 1992 when we had Bush-41 as the incumbent and a man named Bill Clinton, the governor of Arkansas, was elected with 43.5% of the vote because Ross Perot got 19% of the vote, although he had no electoral vote for.
If you’re playing to win and you’re Cornel West, and you’re still not happy with the Democratic Party’s trajectory progressive enough for you under a Biden/Harris administration, you run to their left. Number one.
Second, he will make a play for people who feel forgotten and abandoned by the Democratic Party and feel that no one is listening to them and boxing them in. It’s part of how Trump won in 2016, but I think he can do it from the left.
Last point on this, we had an incumbent president Jimmy Carter who won 34/36 in 1980 [primary] games, but Ted Kennedy won 12 of them, including major states like California. And Ted Kennedy didn’t give the nomination to Jimmy Carter until August or so at the convention. Carter came out of that very damaged and lost as incumbent president to Ronald Reagan.
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Kellyanne is absolutely right about this.
Therefore, expect the Democrats and the media to mount a major pressure campaign to get Cornel West out of the race.