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Biden will have ‘LBJ moment’ and not run for re-election, Cornel West says

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The Guardian legit just made me LOL:
"At 70, West is seven years younger than the most likely Republican candidate, the former president, 91-time criminal indictee and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump."
- Sounds like a boxer being announced
  
  #Aaaaand now!
  #Theeeee most likely Republican candidate!
  The former president
  NINETY-ONE-time criminal indictee... annnnd
  #ADJUDICATED RAPIST!
  #Dooooonald Trump!"
West, despite being younger than Biden, is apparently having a stroke.
Put "Cornel West says" at the start of the sentence so we can all ignore what follows.
- I don't think he's wrong on this, but he's still Cornel West.
How high is this dude…wtf. Dude, you’re all over the map and need to take a long weekend away from microphones.
Make it a month. Make it six.
I used to have a ton of respect for this guy, but lately, a lot of the stuff he’s been saying has not made any sense. I don’t know what’s going on with this guy.
- He took money from Harlan Crow so that says plenty enough about what he says.
  
  he gave that back. i think he should take money from every rich sucker who will give it to him.
- I had a poster of him on my wall at one point.
  I’m just so disappointed. Like Jill Stein is aware, running for president as a third party candidate is a grift. He’s not getting the word out there any more as candidate West than as Dr. West, who could basically just walk onto any news show and get an interview. I can’t imagine he doesn’t know that.
This won't happen unless it looks assured that Trump won't win. That's basically the only reason Ole Joe has stuck around.
- That actually wouldn't be a bad scenario:
  Trump gets convicted, sent to jail, is no longer the nominee, DeSantis or Haley gets the nod at the RNC in July.
  Biden goes "thanks but no thanks" and either Harris or Newsom gets the nod at the DNC in August.
  There is a full month between the Republican and Democratic nominations.
- No… that’s the only ~~reason~~excuse Biden is giving.
  Probably because he can’t say the real reasons. Which, if you take it at face value… it’s a joke because if he stepped aside for someone else, all the “vote for Biden or else” crowd would happily switch to thst someone else.
  
  Hahaha your very idealistic.
Well it sounds better than, "I'm getting paid to split the Democratic vote."
- He might attract a segment of antiestablishment Trump voters as well who no longer support Trump. Likely the Bernie/Trump supporters, or the 13% of Trump voters who supported Obama. Trump arguably won because of Obama-Trump voters.
Well, Cornell is going to look like an idiot again when this also doesn't happen.
West told Politico he might end up running against a “B team” of younger Democrats including Gavin Newsom, governor of California, and Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, because Biden was “running out of gas”.
So even if Biden dropped out, West would still run as a spoiler? The gall of this man...
He's going to have one hell of a moment if he winds up being wrong.
April Fool's, three-plus months early
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Joe Biden will “have an LBJ moment” and decide not to run for re-election next year, the leftwing academic and independent presidential candidate Cornel West has predicted.
West was referring to the moment on 31 March 1968 when Lyndon B Johnson, in office since the assassination of John F Kennedy in November 1963, announced that he would not seek re-election.
At 70, West is seven years younger than the most likely Republican candidate, the former president, 91-time criminal indictee and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump.
Trump, West said, was a “bona fide gangster, neo-fascist Pied Piper leading the country for a second civil war”.
West does not perform as strongly in polling as another independent seen as a potential spoiler in favour of Trump, the attorney and campaigner Robert F Kennedy Jr.
“But if you’re looking at somebody who has a record that encompasses a whole host of things, politically, intellectually, over time and space, alongside my personal life then I might in fact, be somebody you consider very seriously.”
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