Democratic advisor David Axelrod warned that Green Party candidate Cornel West might hurt President Biden’s re-election bid by pulling away votes towards the progressive educational, thereby serving to former President Donald Trump.

“In 2016, the Green Party played 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,” Mr. Axelrod tweeted Friday. Mr. West is working for the Green Party nomination to “reintroduce America to the best of itself – the dignity, courage, and creativity of precious everyday people.”

Many Democrats blame 2016 Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, for drawing votes away from then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and inflicting her to lose to Mr. Trump, the GOP’s nominee that yr.

Ms. Stein has lengthy disputed that she was a spoiler within the tight race between Mr. Trump and Mrs. Clinton and he or she was not the one third-party candidate that ran in 2016. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson additionally ran that yr.

Republicans see a chance, although with Mr. West as a third-party candidate, however influential progressive lawmakers like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, are starting to endorse Mr. Biden.

Mr. Biden is dealing with minor main challenges for the 2024 election cycle together with self-help creator Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

When requested by PBS News Hour if she would help Mr. Biden, she stated: “I believe, given that field, yes.”

According to a ballot launched final month, practically half of voters would critically take into account casting a poll for a third-party candidate if President Biden and former President Donald Trump are the Democratic and Republican nominees subsequent yr.

The survey, carried out by NewsNation and Decision Desk HQ, discovered that 49% of registered voters stated they had been “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to contemplate choosing another person as a substitute of Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump.

The on-line survey query of 1,000 registered voters, with a Margin of Error: 2.8%, was carried out May 25 and 26.

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