The University of Utah will host the third and final presidential debate prior to the 2024 general election, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced Monday.

Where: Kingsbury Hall

When: Oct. 9, 2024

Who: Participants must receive at least 15% in five different polls to be eligible

Cornel West holds his debut in-person rally in Salt Lake City

There’s no presidential candidate quite like Dr. Cornel West.

He’s a public philosopher, not a politician; he’s more inclined to speak of America’s challenges as moral conundrums than as policy failures. Instead of citing Washington and Jefferson on the stump, he quotes Stevie Wonder and Duke Ellington.

And instead of strategically launching the first in-person rally of his campaign in Pennsylvania or Georgia or any other number of 2024 swing states, West touched down in Salt Lake City Monday night, on the eve of the city’s mayoral election. 

Read more about why Cornel West thinks the U.S. is in ‘spiritual decay.’ 

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