Independent presidential candidate and academic Cornel West shared on social media Thursday afternoon that campaign manager Peter Daou, is resigning from his presidential campaign, citing health concerns.
“I am very sorry about the resignation of brother Peter @PeterDaou based on his health. I sincerely pray for him and his precious family and thank him for his service to my campaign,” West stated in an X post.
https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1717596710145507568
Daou is a progressive blogger with a long history of working on presidential campaigns. He managed online communications for Democratic nominee John Kerry in 2004 and digital operations for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2008. Earlier this April, Daou served as campaign manager for Democratic Party hopeful Marianne Williamson before resigning the following month.
Peter Daou later joined the campaign of then-Green Party candidate West this past September, replacing former Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein as campaign manager, before resigning the following month.
Independent Political Report will update this article with a formal statement from the West campaign once it becomes available.
Daou eventually went DEFCON V on this issue.
He originally quote-tweeted back to Cornel West a tweet from earlier that day by him that cited that PTSD from his time growing up in Lebanon was being triggered by Gaza events. I don’t doubt it.
He then got dogpiled on Twitter by people claiming he had wrecked West’s campaign, etc.
And, he posted a LONG tweet in response. I don’t doubt he reorganized West’s campaign; a dead dog could probably do that. Ditto on Williamson before that.
But, his claim that his personal politics are SIGNIFICANTLY to the left of West’s? (He used that word.) I found that laughable.
Full thing is quoted in my blog post:
https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2023/10/peter-daou-going-full-defcon-v-on.html