Angela Davis Urges - Declare Your Independence - Vote for Hall and Tyner, CPUSA Election Poster, 1976 -- Daily LIFT #2102 In 1976, Gus Hall ran for President and Jarvis Tyner ran for Vice President representing the Communist Party USA, a campaign that promoted socialism and workers’ rights but received only a small fraction of the national vote. Gus Hall was the Chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and led the party’s effort to participate independently in U.S. preside