'Part of a movement': Jill Stein to help Cornel West build 'people-powered' presidential campaign

24 June 2023

Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has signed on to support Dr. Cornel West's 2024 campaign, CNN reports.

The former Harvard professor and long time civil rights activist announced his Third-Party White House bid earlier this month, in which he noted he will run for the People's Party.

However, according to the report, West "quickly broke off from that group, which has limited campaign infrastructure amid concerns about ballot access, to join the Greens and seek their nomination."

The 2024 hopeful noted, "Any candidacy to run the empire, in order to dismantle the empire, has to be part of a movement."

Regarding Stein's plan to assist the former professor, CNN reports:

Her involvement will likely rankle Democrats who say her candidacy siphoned progressive votes from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 general election – a claim she has always dismissed. In the key swing states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Stein's vote total exceeded Donald Trump's narrow victory margins. Still, it is unclear whether Stein voters would have turned out for Clinton had the Green nominee not been on the ballot.

"I'm a transition coordinator helping his campaign move from its previous People's Party context into the Green Party and developing his team and the infrastructure that he needs to run a full-powered, people-powered campaign," Stein said.

"It was really, I think, clear to everyone that Cornel needed to be in a campaign infrastructure that could make this campaign as big as the American people need it to be. We just began the transition at that point, and we are close to moving most of our critical infrastructure and really getting down to work."

CNN's full report is available at this link.

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