Cornel West

Y'all know who that brother is, right? qualify for the presidential ballot in 2020 as part of a, quote, dumb trick.

GOP operatives did the same thing in the 2024 race, trying to boost Cornel West.

Y'all know who that brother is, too, right? His independent presidential campaign as part of an effort to improve Trump's chances.

The point, Norm, is this is part of the game of politics.

was running as a Democrat and they thought they were going to peel away people with his vote and then he switched over to Trump? You know, remember the, quote, third party candidacies that we've seen in recent past elections, again, designed to create stalking horses that have peeled away votes, whether it's Ralph Nader or whatever.

You know, I mean, there was even a story that, you know, Cornel West, you know, super lefty from Harvard who decided he was going to go and run a campaign, that his campaign was secretly being funded by a dark money group linked to Elon Musk.

You know, all this stuff is ridiculous and it's childish and it doesn't affect the informed voter.

But it happens all the time.

But having said that, it's done all the time, and it's done by people like Donald Trump, who people close to Trump encouraged a guy named RFK Jr., who had a very Democratic name, to consider running as a Democratic candidate to see if they could peel off Democratic voters.

In the past, there have been multiple candidates on the presidential ballot who've had backing from, say, Republicans, even though they were on the Democratic side, to peel off votes, including, we just learned this week, kind of astonishingly, you know, left-wing Republicans Professor Cornel West had a brief presidential campaign that was funded in part, apparently, by dark money from Elon Musk.

So, you know, there's all this stuff going on there.

But Republicans on the Hill, we are going to investigate this.

was running as a Democrat and they thought they were going to peel away people with his vote and then he switched over to Trump? You know, remember the, quote, third party candidacies that we've seen in recent past elections, again, designed to create stalking horses that have peeled away votes, whether it's Ralph Nader or whatever.

You know, I mean, there was even a story that, you know, Cornel West, you know, super lefty from Harvard who decided he was going to go and run a campaign, that his campaign was secretly being funded by a dark money group linked to Elon Musk.

You know, all this stuff is ridiculous and it's childish and it doesn't affect the informed voter.

But it happens all the time.

questions.

He did an interview, I don't know, maybe like a year-ish or so ago with Cornel West, you know, that nut.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Anyone remembers Jill Stein, etc.

Cornel West and his Kanye West.

Yeah, Cornel West especially.

I mean, you know, everybody.

Yeah.

As the organization reviews the incident, former U.S. men's national team star Eddie Johnson has stepped in to support the young soccer standout.

And a new report says organizations tied to a political network linked to Elon Musk helped fund ballot access efforts for independent presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West during the 2024 election.

The report says there's no evidence West knew about or coordinated with the funding arrangements.

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You know, the fact that, what, last year? She was a prominent feature of the fundraiser that Black Lives Matter's grassroots did with Dr.

Cornel West and Tavis.

You know, and she brought a lot to that event.

And so...