Election Blockbuster - Surprising Move Could Hand Trump The Presidency In 2024

A surprising new announcement in the 2024 presidential race this week means that it

could tip the election towards Donald Trump in 2024. What's going on, guys? This is Rob Smith

with Explain America. Please remember to like, share, subscribe, and comment to all of our stuff

Okay, let's get into this. Cornel West has just announced a third-party run for President of the

United States, obviously putting him into contention for the role with former President

Donald Trump who's running and also Joe Biden who's running on the Democrat side

Now, Kellyanne Conway, who is an absolutely brilliant strategist and also a strategist

and also the first woman to ever put a man in the white office, had this to say about the effect

that Cornel West's entrance into the race could have on Trump's chances

Even if you don't become president, you as a third-party candidate, spoiler

can decide who is the president. This happened in 1992 when we had Bush 41 as the incumbent

and a guy named Bill Clinton, the Arkansas governor, got elected with 43.5% of the vote

Why? Because Ross Perot got 19% of the popular vote even though he didn't rack up any electoral

votes. So I think it's important also what Amy Walter is pointing out is that if you play to win

and you're Cornel West and you are still not satisfied with the trajectory of the Democratic

Party being progressive enough for you under a Biden-Harris administration, key word there

then you're going to run to the left of them, number one. Number two, he's going to make a

play for people who feel forgotten, who feel abandoned by this Democratic Party, who feel

like nobody's listening to them and including them. It's part of how Trump won in 2016

but I think he could do it from the left. And so this is a very interesting take on this

and I think that Kellyanne Conway is absolutely right. Now, a lot of what Cornel West is going

to do is that he is going to take a lot of those Democrat voters on the far left away from somebody

like Joe Biden, or if Joe Biden ends up not running, somebody like Gavin Newsom. Those

are things that could really tip the scale in favor of Donald Trump, because Cornel West

is going to be coming at Biden and whoever else from the left, and that's going to leave the door

wide open for Trump to actually take this. I think that what a lot of people don't remember

and one thing that Kellyanne Conway was really good at pointing out here is that the presence

of a third party candidate generally takes votes away from liberals, right, from the left

and particularly with Cornel West. This is somebody that is going to take votes away from the left

and that means that Trump is going to need a smaller percentage of the vote to actually prevail

Now, if you don't know who Cornel West is, he is a very far left academic. He was known as a

progressive activist who taught public philosophy at Harvard University after teaching at Princeton

right? So this guy is literally an elite and an elitist through and through. And so you put that

guy up against Trump, and this person is literally running for president in order to stop Trump

And you put this person up against Trump, Trump is going to demolish him because Cornel West is

seen as elitist, as far left, as out of touch, as somebody that has done very little outside of the

world of academia and media for the past decades of his life. That's a very easy way for Trump to

hit him. And so this is what West said when he said that he was going to run for president. He said

I have decided to run for truth and justice, which takes the form of running for president

of the United States as a candidate for the People's Party. I enter for the quest for truth

I enter for the quest of justice, and the presidency is just one vehicle that we use to

pursue that truth and justice. So that is what Cornel West had to say. Kellyanne Conway obviously

thinks that his entrance into the race is going to bode well for Trump. I'm inclined to agree with

her. It'll be very interesting to see if Trump responds to this, if he responds at all, because

I agree with Kellyanne Conway. This will help Trump. All right, I want to hear what you guys

have to say. Do not forget to please like, share, and subscribe to all of our Explain America

content. I am Rob Smith for Explain America, and I'll see you next time