Kanye West Running for President: Is It Too Late?

Kanye West arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif.announced over the weekend that he intends to launch a late, long-shot bid for the presidency, a run that would pit him against President Donald Trump and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. It's not the first time 'Ye has said he wants to take a shot at the highest office in the land, but the July 4 tweet appeared to be his most serious effort yet to throw his MAGA hat into the ring.

"It's certainly the latest I can remember ... because third-party candidates usually try to get in early and get on the ballot in all the states," Robert Y. Shapiro, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government and Professor of International and Public Affairs in the Columbia University Department of Political Science, tellsThe rapper's sudden entry also raises a number of questions for Shapiro about motivation.

There are also deadlines in the next few weeks to make it on the ballot in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Ye's home state of Illinois, his adopted third home state of Wyoming, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Utah, Pennsylvania and a handful of others. Shapiro says that, superficially, it's not a terrible time for a Black candidate to jump into a race while the country is in the middle of the current state of protest and upheaval unleashed by the police killing of George Floyd. With a built-in audience of millions and high name recognition among a key younger, urban demographic, West makes up in visibility and reach what he lacks in public policy and political experience, a profile that is not unlike his friend Trump's pre-presidency.

I feel it’s a plot to draft all black votes and distract the people from Biden

Why not let Kanye West run for President, the rest of them running for President like Trump and Biden are nothing but a bunch of cartoon characters, anyway, so another asshole isn't going to hurt. My self am voting for Bart Simpson / Snoopy. Bart Feels Our Pain

I hope it’s too late. Otherwise he’s cause a lot of trouble

Let's fucken hope so lol

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