Cornel West announces running mate for independent US presidential bid

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : According to a Quinnipiac University poll of US voters conducted last month, Biden leads Donald Trump by 3 points, 48% to 45%, in a head-to-head match-up, but the president's support dipped down to 38% (compared to Trump's 39%) when third-party candidates like West, Robert F Kennedy Jr and Jill Stein of the Green party were listed as options.
55% : Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, helped to form the LA chapter of the group Black Lives Matter, and West praised her as "one of the great freedom fighters of her generation".
35% : Not all of their voters would support Biden, but none of them would support Trump," Jonathan Cowan and Jim Kessler, leaders of the center-left think tank Third Way, wrote in a USA Today op-ed last week.
33% : "West has previously dismissed concerns about how his presence on the ballot might boost Trump, arguing that he has a moral obligation to give a voice to progressives' concerns in this election.

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