Kanye West To Run For Presidential Election

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KANYE WEST

Kanye Omari West ( born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, composer, entrepreneur and fashion designer.
He experimented with a variety of musical genres on subsequent acclaimed studio albums, including Late Registration (2005), Graduation (2007), and 808s & Heartbreak (2008) before releasing My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010), which was hailed by several critics as the best album of the decade.
West is one of the world’s best-selling music artists, with over 140 million records sold worldwide. He has won a total of 21 Grammy Awards, making him one of the most awarded artists of all time.

US rapper Kanye West has said he is running for president, potentially pitting him against a man he says he admires, Donald Trump.
“We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” he tweeted. “I am running for president of the United States!”
His wife Kim Kardashian West and entrepreneur Elon Musk endorsed him.

But it’s unclear whether West is really running.He does not appear to have registered his name with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for November’s election.
The closest name the FEC database shows is a candidate called “Kanye Deez Nutz West”, who filed their papers with the Green Party in 2015 under the address “1977 Golddigger Avenue, Suite Yeezus” and appears to have raised no money.

It is also not the first time West has claimed that he is running for the White House.At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, he said he had decided to run for president in 2020.But last November he pushed the date back, saying he would actually run in the 2024 contest.
“What are you laughing at?” he asked the crowd at Fast Company’s Innovation Festival. “We would have created so many jobs that I’m not gonna run, I’m gonna walk,” he said, adding he was considering changing his name for the run to “Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West”

In any case, contesting the nomination of one major parties would be impossible at this stage, with the election only four months away.
In order to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate, West would have to gather a certain amount of signatures and register in states by a particular deadline. The deadline has already passed in some major states but the music star would still technically have time to file in many others.

The rapper also pushed back on the idea that African-Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic Party voters, saying: “People expect that if you’re black, you have to be Democrat.“
Alternatively, he could try and win the nomination of the Democrats or the Republicans.The Democrats have already welcomed Kanye.