Cornel West's Threat to Biden Hinges on Him Overcoming a Major Hurdle

Progressive scholar Cornel West's path to the presidency—and ambitions of posing a genuine challenge to incumbent President Joe Biden—faces numerous hurdles: a lack of resources, a lack of name recognition, and the lack of a major party backing his campaign.

A bigger issue, however, might be the fact he faces a long road to even get his name on the ballot.

According to a Monday blog post by Ballot Access News, the People's Party—the Bernie Sanders-inspired political movement West plans to run with—only has access to the ballot in one state—now-reliably conservative Florida. (A dead link on the party's website also claimed it got ballot access in Virginia in 2022, though that post has since been deleted.)