Cornel West will appear on Maine’s presidential ballot this November.
He is the second independent presidential candidate to qualify for this year’s ballot, according to the Maine secretary of state’s office.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his vice presidential running mate, Nicole Shanahan, also have qualified as independent candidates for the ballot.
West, an activist and professor at Harvard and Princeton universities, has been running on a platform to end wars, disband NATO, forgive all student debt, expand Social Security and invest in clean energy.
He will be joined by his running mate, Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African studies at California State University in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Howard University and the University of Southern California, according to their campaign website.
Under Maine law, any registered Maine voter can challenge the validity of an independent candidate’s petition for the ballot before 5 p.m. on Aug. 8, 2024.
