If they don’t do what he wants, he hires somebody who will. There’s enough fly-by-night signature-gathering groups in the US that he can find somebody who cares only about the validity of his credit card, not his sanity.
It happens. I knew lots of Thais who would vote for someone simply because they would see him driving down the street.
It’s all part of a ploy to convince people his wife isn’t a hobbit:
If, for whatever reason, the only two choices on the ballot were Chump and Kanye West, I think I would just stay home on election day and whack off to porn.
This situation reminds me so much of the episode of King of the Hill where Kahn goes off the meds he takes for manic depressive disorder. And just like how Hank just enables Kahn for his own gain, I feel like the people around Kanye are doing the same thing.
If you’re hoping Ohio won’t make a difference, then you must think it’s better for one to win than the other.
If you vote Libertarian, as opposed to voting for the one you think the better of two bad choices, you’re increasing the chance that the one you think worse to win.
This is not the year to do that.
That’s a much better answer than I’d have composed.
^This. People are making money off of Kanye’s mental illness. And they see no reason to stop doing so.
He’s not letting go and no one is stopping him:
I have no compassion or empathy for this man at this time.
Prepare to be shocked…
GOP operatives working with Kanye’s campaign
One of West’s electors in the state of Vermont will also be a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Charlotte. Chuck Wilton, one of the three electors West’s presidential campaign named in a filing submitted with the Vermont Secretary of State on Monday, was also elected by the Vermont Republican Party in May to serve as a delegate for President Trump at this year’s RNC.
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Wilton was the second person with ties to the GOP to be linked to the West presidential campaign on Monday. A prominent Republican operative, Gregg Keller, was listed as the campaign’s point of contact in a filing with the Arkansas Secretary of State. Keller, who did not respond to repeated requests for comment, is the former executive director of the American Conservative Union and has worked for a number of prominent Republican politicians including Mitt Romney and Josh Hawley.
Quelle surprise!
It is completely out of character for the GOP to be manipulating and taking advantage of a mentally ill person.
I’m impressed you were able to say that with a straight face.
He’s now withdrawn his petition in New Jersey.
Nice move, Kanye! That just shows everyone how serious, how thorough and how committed you are!
You got this!
Kanye West has officially submitted signatures to appear on the ballot in Wisconsin, arguably the most important state on the presidential map — and those signatures were dropped off by an experienced GOP operative.
Lane Ruhland, who a local reporter recorded as she headed in to drop off the signatures that would qualify West for his presidential bid in Wisconsin on Tuesday, is one of a handful of GOP election lawyers in the state — and a former legal counsel for the state Republican Party.
This assumes all the “Poor Kanye” stuff is true and this isn’t just Kanye working to help his bestest dragon energy buddy Donald Trump.
KW is in serious need of adult supervision and professional help. Those helping him are political trolls and bomb throwers. No different than the Roger Stones and Steve Bannons. Their only “strategy” is to create chaos, light fires, and to use anybody and anything to their advantage, all to see the world burn. It would not surprise me one bit to learn that they are instigated and funded by those who stand the most to gain by the circus that has become America’s political climate.
No, they’re people actively trying to split the vote to get Trump into office. They’re not political anarchists, they’re Republicans with a specific agenda and who don’t want to see Biden blocking that agenda. Calling them bomb throwers and trolls makes them sound like unorganized rabble; meanwhile they’re waging an organized campaign to get Kanye on the ballot and not because they think Kanye is going to get 270 electoral votes. The only question is whether or not Kanye is intentionally part of that organization.
I find it hard to see how creating a KW candidacy will do more damage by splitting off voters from Biden than from Trump.
Because they think that black people will vote for Kanye because he’s black and a successful rapper. Yes, these folks aren’t the “best people”.
You’re kidding, right?
Sorry, I just don’t think black Biden voters are stupid enough to be influenced by KW’s star power in any meaningful way.
Whether or not they are, the GOP thinks they can be. Or, at least, can be in meaningful enough numbers to swing a tight race (like in WI/MI/PA last cycle). The assumption being that Trump voters aren’t going to vote for Kanye but maybe they can get enough young and/or Black voters who might have gone to Biden to instead vote for Kanye either as some sort of protest vote or just for the lulz.
You don’t have a number of Republican operatives helping get Kanye on the ballot just because they ran out of things to do with their day.