Everyone is talking about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and his budding challenge to President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Everyone knows, though, that RFK, Jr., isn’t going to get to be the nominee, no matter how many votes he gets.
The Democratic Party’s powerbrokers have determined that President Joe Biden, not Kennedy, will be the Democrats’ choice to run for president. The rest is just kabuki theater to keep the masses happy.
Joe Biden Still Won’t Go Unopposed
Once Joe Biden is the nominee, he plans on using minority voters as his silver bullet in what will be a titanic battle for America’s future in the General Election in 2024. Whether Biden faces off against either former President Donald J. Trump or Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis, Biden will need every advantage he can get.
Things are not looking good for the forty-sixth president. But, if he is able to run against Donald Trump, there are certain factors that might work in Biden’s favor.
When it comes to voting blocs, Democrats traditionally have an edge over Republicans when it comes to minority voters—notably African-Americans. And Biden believes that by keeping his deeply unpopular vice-president, Kamala Harris, as his running-mate that Biden will solidify his standing among African-American voters.
He’s probably right in this assumption. After all, historically, African-Americans have voted overwhelmingly Democratic since the days of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
African-American voters saved Joe Biden’s last disastrous presidential run for office. Biden was losing the Democratic Party’s primary in 2020 and he needed to do something fundamentally change the narrative.
Joe Biden needed to breathe new life into his dying campaign.
He did that in South Carolina, by winning over Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) who, in turn, helped to deliver a sizable portion of the black vote to Biden. Once more, Biden is banking on the black vote to deliver him from the orange clutches of Donald J. Trump (or Ron DeSantis).
Enter Cornel West, slinging rhapsodical fusillades against the systemic racism that permeates our country while waxing eloquent about the need for a more democratic-socialist future.
In other words, speaking the language of just about every Democratic Party voter—and piquing the interest of a portion of the black vote.
If any of the black voters who went for Biden in 2020 break for Cornel West, what with Donald Trump suddenly appealing to a large number of African-American voters, Biden could lose the 2024 election.
Cornel West isn’t running to ruin Biden. West is running because he believes that both parties have lost the thread of American politics.
He wants to represent his community in a way that he believes previous presidents—including America’s first African-American president, Barack Obama—lost it. And by running as the Green Party candidate, Cornel West is ensuring that he won’t get chewed up by the Democratic Party’s corruption machine that devoured Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in 2016.
Instead, Cornel West is going to be running in the General Election against Joe Biden and the GOP nominee – likely Trump. Since West is not part of the Democratic Party’s ticket, he’s going to be making a play for the same black voters that Biden desperately needs to retain in 2024.
West is going to cleave some votes away from Biden in ways that he won’t from Trump or whoever is the GOP nominee. Losing those voters might prove fatal for the Biden Campaign, which is already struggling to raise money from the middle-and-working classes of America.
Face it, Cornel West just might cost Joe Biden the election in 2024.
A 19FortyFive Senior Editor, Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, as well as at American Greatness and the Asia Times. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower (Republic Book Publishers), Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life (Encounter Books), and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy (July 23). Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.
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