{"id":583143,"date":"2023-07-17T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/democrat-suspicions-grow-about-rfk-jr-cornel-west-no-labels\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T09:30:00","slug":"democrat-suspicions-grow-about-rfk-jr-cornel-west-no-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrat-suspicions-grow-about-rfk-jr-cornel-west-no-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"#Democrat suspicions grow about RFK Jr., Cornel West, No Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b3e859c73\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b3e859c73\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrat-suspicions-grow-about-rfk-jr-cornel-west-no-labels\/#More_from_The_Hill\" >More from The Hill<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/kennedyrobert_supporter_sign_041923getty_dem-suspicions.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Democrats aren\u2019t just growing concerned about some potential third-party presidential candidates. They\u2019re also becoming increasingly suspicious about those people\u2019s motivations.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of President Biden see several threats on the horizon, beyond the Republican Party itself.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gained more traction than many Democrats expected in his primary challenge to Biden. A potential presidential candidacy facilitated by the No Labels group is causing consternation. And the decision by left-wing academic and author Cornel West to seek the Green Party\u2019s presidential nomination further jangles nerves.<\/p>\n<p>The slenderness of Biden\u2019s 2020 victory in the electoral college undergirds many of these concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even though Biden garnered roughly seven million more votes nationwide than then-President Trump, the electoral college would have been tied had three states \u2014 Georgia, Arizona and Wisconsin \u2014 gone the other way. Biden\u2019s margin of victory in each of those states was less than one percentage point.<\/p>\n<p>That means Democrats are keenly aware of the potential for a third-party candidate to shift the result of the 2024 election \u2014 and equally aware of the willingness of Republicans and conservatives to nudge such candidacies along.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s presidential bid is eyed with more suspicion than any other by mainstream Democrats, in part because of some peculiar political bedfellows.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Bannon, Trump\u2019s onetime chief strategist, has been broadly sympathetic to Kennedy, and the candidate has <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared on Bannon\u2019s podcast. Longtime Trump ally and mischief-maker Roger Stone has even advanced the idea of a Trump-Kennedy \u201cunity ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Last month, during a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>Nation town hall event, Kennedy declined to commit to supporting Biden if the president officially becomes the Democratic nominee. Next week, Kennedy will appear as a witness before the Republican-led House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.<\/p>\n<p>And Friday, Kennedy called Trump \u201cprobably the most successful debater in this country since Lincoln-Douglas\u201d during a Fox News interview.<\/p>\n<p>Put it all together, and it\u2019s more than enough to raise eyebrows among other Democrats.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on there. At one time I saw Kennedy as a true environmental champion,\u201d said Democratic strategist Mark Longabaugh. \u201cBut now his candidacy is being propped up by a bunch of right-wing types who seem to use Kennedy as a vehicle to undermine Biden. I am incredibly disappointed by his candidacy and the mess he is creating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s campaign hit back at those kinds of criticisms in an email to The Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChallengers to a weak or unpopular candidate are not the cause of the weakness,\u201d a Kennedy campaign spokesperson said. \u201cIf President Biden is concerned about his chances of reelection, he should uphold the traditional Democratic values on which he is vulnerable: peace, civil liberties, and clean government. Then there would be no serious challengers to his nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Skepticism of a different kind surrounds No Labels.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_from_The_Hill\"><\/span>More from The Hill<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>\u2022 Manchin stokes speculation with No Labels event<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mark Kelly \u2018concerned\u2019 about third-party movement No Labels<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u2022 Trump calls RFK Jr. \u2018a very smart person\u2019<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">The purportedly centrist organization has been trying to ensure ballot access in as many states as possible, even as it says it will not make a decision until next year as to whether to actually run a candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far, No Labels appears to have secured a place on the ballot in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon and Utah.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>On Monday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) will speak at a No Labels town hall in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation about a No Labels presidential candidate has centered more on Manchin than anyone else. If he does not run for president, the senator faces a challenging Senate reelection campaign in 2024 in his heavily Republican state. He has a long record of being willing to buck party orthodoxy, even at the cost of aggravating his party colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin, however, has said nothing definitive about either seeking the presidency or reelection to the Senate.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>More broadly, the No Labels effort has drawn strong criticism even from centrist Democratic members of Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.), for example, told Politico back in May that No Labels was \u201cwasting time, energy, and money on a bizarre effort that confuses and divides voters, and has one obvious outcome \u2014 reelecting Donald Trump as president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others further to the left are just as scathing.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Payne, the chief communications officer for progressive group MoveOn, which has opposed No Labels\u2019s ballot push, told this column that No Labels \u201cclaims to want to stamp out extremism in politics. But jumping in as a spoiler candidate would only enable probably the most extreme president we\u2019ve ever had, Donald Trump, to win in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not so, countered No Labels\u2019s chief strategist Ryan Clancy, who said that the group itself had not put any name, including Manchin\u2019s, forward as a potential candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Clancy argued that the idea of a No Labels candidate as a spoiler was inaccurate, because there is no way of knowing whether an unnamed candidate would take votes disproportionately from one party rather than the other.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, Clancy said, \u201cWhat we are doing is something so fundamental, which is working to give the American people choices, and we may never offer our ballot lines anyway. We have said that from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust the fact of No Labels giving people a choice has elicited such an overreaction,\u201d Clancy added.<\/p>\n<p>The attempt by West to secure the nomination of the Green Party is seen very differently.<\/p>\n<p>Broadly speaking, Democrats don\u2019t see West\u2019s candidacy as being in bad faith. Rather, they worry that he and the Green Party are being too cavalier about the possibility that they could tip the election to a Republican, including Trump.<\/p>\n<p>David Axelrod, the Democratic strategist best known for his key role in getting President Obama elected, recently tweeted that in 2016 the Green Party had \u201cplayed an outsized role in tipping the election to Donald Trump. Now, with Cornel West as their likely nominee, they could easily do it again. Risky business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West, reached by phone Friday, hit back against that kind of warning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny critique of an existing president is construed as helping Republicans, so what does one do?\u201d West asked rhetorically. \u201cDoes one remain silent about the suffering of the Palestinians, the proxy war in Russia, the needs of poor and working people?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo. We have to raise our voices in some way \u2014 and as soon as we do we are accused of being Trump supporters. That\u2019s absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With so much at stake over the next 16 months before Election Day, the war of words is only getting started.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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