His best chance now is if a small party picks him as their running mate. Most of them are run by sane people so that’s very unlikely to happen.
Black people, like white people, LatinX people, and every other kind of people, contain among their numbers some large proportion of “vote in Presidential elections but otherwise pay virtually no attention to the news” folks.
So some of them might well be siphoned off from Biden voters by some flashy candidate who seems, well, Interesting.
Kanye has become known for being something of a train-wreck. And that is interesting.
(And Elon Musk is an irresponsible scoundrel.)
That’s about all that needs to be said.
You only need enough to make a difference. If Kanye siphons off even just 2-3% of the black vote, that could be a big deal in swing states. Although as right now it appears that Trump is turning in such an inept performance that Biden could easily overcome any Nader-ing that Kanye could do.
Kanye is mentally ill with bipolar and he admitted it. Trump would never admit any problem with his health or anything else.
Maybe it’s a PR gimmick for an album/tour. Kid Rock did the same thing regarding a Senate seat here in MI.
Yeah, I don’t know if it’s cool to go there, but is he really interested in running for office, or is his mental illness making him do this? Instead of laughing, should we be hoping he gets the help he needs?
Regarding this:
“Bad news for voters in Indiana, Maine, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina and Texas – the deadline has already passed to file and you won’t get a chance to vote for West. (Unless you want to write him in.)”
If he did indeed achieve a plurality of votes from write-ins in these states, would convention dictate that those states’ electors would indeed vote for him in the Electoral College? I tried to Google this but couldn’t find a good answer (I realise it may vary from state to state).
some states have an official write in which means they count your votes. Normally for that you have to get a certain number of signed petitions. Number varies by state.
Can’t say Kanye without “con”. 
Sure glad there’s google.
With Mr. Kim Kardashian running for president should make for an interesting campaign for the “privilege” vote.
This is truly a scary thing. 
He ain’t got nuthin’ to add to the universe.
But he did win the Family Feud a coupla weeks ago. There’s that.
He probably thinks that he’ll automatically be added to the ballot in all 50 states simply because he announced that he’s running.
I don’t know why people like Letterman and Musk like him. He always struck me as a hotheaded dim-bulb.
I think Letterman knew he’d be an entertaining interview. Musk is a reprehensible POS and is using him for the attention.
West’s company got a multimillion dollar PPP loan.
Does Musk like him? His tweet was a reply saying “You’ve got my vote!” which seemed tongue in cheek to me.
Huh. Didn’t have that on my 2020 bingo card.
If it was another singer, I’d say it was an empty statement designed to seek attention and media coverage. In this case, though, there is no history of attention seeking or public gestures. I just wanna say, I’mma gonna let you finish, but y’know who deserves to be the next president?
Musk is an idiot who tweets about “red pilling” and shit so I assume his enthusiasm is sincere.
West insists that he’s running in 2020 under the “Birthday Party” with a Wyoming preacher as his VP and Elon Musk leading NASA if he wins. Despite missing the filing deadlines in some major states (and likely missing more since a July 15th date approaches), he says that he can run anyway because of COVID-19. Speaking of the disease…
Regarding the development of a Covid-19 vaccine, he said: “It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralysed … So when they say the way we’re going to fix covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast.
“They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven.”
West added that Covid-19 was “all about God. We need to stop doing things that make God mad.”