Harvard professor will compete for the presidency

In the United States, a teacher at Harvard University, law professor Lawrence Lessig announced the entry into the presidential race for the presidency from the Democratic Party. ABC News.

According to the professor, he managed to collect a million dollars through the Internet as donations to the fund of his election campaign. And now, according to Lessig, he intends to fight for the right to nominate himself for the highest state post.

Lessig, who does not have the support of the moneybags supporting the current campaign heavyweights, has publicly promised to enter the race if he raises a million dollars to cover the costs involved.

According to a new participant in the presidential race, his main goal is to achieve reform of the financing of election campaigns in the United States. According to Lessig, he is going to resign from the university and devote all his time to the election campaign.

According to the 54-year-old professor, it is necessary to abandon the “corrupt method” used to finance election campaigns. Americans have a government “that doesn’t work” because it mainly represents the interests of donors who sponsored the election campaigns of those who ran for the White House and the US Congress, Lessig is sure.

The professor assured: if he is elected to the post of president, after the reform of the election campaign finances, he will immediately resign and transfer the powers to the vice-president. Whom he sees as a contender for this position, Lessig refused to specify.

Recall, in addition to Lessig, their intention to participate in the election campaign from the Democratic Party said: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, non-partisan Senator-Socialist Bernie Sanders, former Governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley and former Governor of Rhode Island Lincoln Chaffee, former Senator from the state Virginia Jim Webb. Also, his participation in the campaign did not rule out Vice President Joe Biden.

The intention to run for the Republican Party was announced by: former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, billionaire Donald Trump, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina, neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Presidential elections will be held in the US on November 8 2016 of the year.

First daysfuck from the Republican Party passed 6 August.

The Democratic Party announced that the first debates of its candidates will be held in Nevada in October. The CNN channel will broadcast them.