Claudia De la Cruz 2024 presidential campaign
Campaign	2024 United States presidential election
Candidate	Claudia De la Cruz Karina Garcia
Announced	September 7, 2023
Launched	September 8, 2023
Website
https://votesocialist2024.com/

Claudia De la Cruz, a leftist activist from New York, announced her 2024 campaign for president of the United States on September 7, 2023. She and running mate Karina Garcia are the presidential ticket for the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a Marxist–Leninist party, in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.^[1][2]

The De la Cruz-Garcia socialist platform calls for a transformation of major political and economic structures in the United States through building a socialist movement.

Their platform includes a pledge to support reparations for Black Americans, institute a single-payer healthcare system, end all U.S aid to Israel, forgive all student loan debt, fully recognize Native American sovereignty and honor treaty rights, cut the U.S. military budget by 90%, seize the 100 largest corporations, expand public transportation, and use taxation to eliminate billionaires.^[3][4]

The Party for Socialism and Liberation has attained ballot access in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, and Washington. In addition, de la Cruz has received ballot lines from the Peace and Freedom Party in California, the South Carolina Workers Party, and has filed as unaffiliated in Utah.^{[10][better source needed]}

De la Cruz has filed as a write-in option, and to have such votes counted, in Indiana, Maine, Texas, and West Virginia, in addition to states where write-in votes are generally permitted.

On January 28, 2024, Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia held their first in-person campaign event in Newark, New Jersey.^{[11][non-primary source needed]}

On February 29, 2024, De la Cruz participated in a presidential candidates debate hosted by the Free & Equal Elections Foundation, alongside Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Jasmine Sherman, and Libertarian Party candidates Chase Oliver and Lars Mapstead.^[12][13]

In March 2024, the South Carolina Workers Party voted to place De la Cruz and Garcia on the state ballot for president and vice president.^[14]

In June 2024, De la Cruz gave a speech at a pro-Palestine protest that surrounded the White House.^[15]

David Corn criticized the PSL for its support of the North Korean regime, defending the human rights record of the Chinese Communist Party and for a founder as well as a two-time vice presidential candidate both working for Radio Sputnik, a Russian propaganda subsidiary of Russia Today.^[18] Corn also cited close funding ties for affiliated organizations to Neville Roy Singham, a Shanghai-based multi-millionaire philanthropist that the New York Times linked as a major funder of nonprofits and media outlets promoting pro-Beijing talking points.^[18]

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