Third party presidential candidate Cornel West told President Biden to “get off the crack pipe,” during his first interview since announcing his run for office.
The 70-year-old announced his bid for Biden’s job on Twitter on Monday. He is a former professor at Harvard and Princeton and currently the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary.
I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself – fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for… pic.twitter.com/u3NYGUbG1S
— Cornel West (@CornelWest) June 5, 2023
The progressive activist is running as a member of the People’s Party. In his campaign platform he calls for Medicare for all, protection of abortion access, and student debt forgiveness.
“I am running for truth and justice and as a candidate for president of the…