Billionaire rapper and occasional MAGA-hat wearer Kayne West has announced he’s running for President of the United States of America.
Not in 2024, as he had previously threatened, but this year, against incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.
We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future. I am running for president of the United States 🇺🇸! #2020VISION
— ye (@kanyewest) July 5, 2020
Let’s have some reaction gifs:
Those are aimed not at West, but at the Democratic Party. Let’s discuss which is the dirtier trick:
- A billionaire rapper announcing he’s running for President and siphoning votes away from the Democratic nominee, or:
- Democrats trapping black Americans in 50+ years of inter-generational poverty, welfare dependency, failing schools, and high crime urban areas while milking them for votes every 2-4 years and then promoting widespread urban riots in order to rile them up enough to keep pulling the (D) lever?
I’m going with “B.”
You can practically hear Democrats screaming with outrage now. How dare he do this to us??? WE OWN THEIR VOTES AS OUR BIRTHRIGHT!!!!!
Well, Democrats, it was your side that insisted on initiating widespread looting and violence in a desperate attempt to get blacks to vote for Biden. It’s your side that funds antifa and teaches the social justice warriors. It’s your side that teaches that America is irredeemable racist.
Well, now you’ve got a black billionaire with a famous wife jumping into the ring. And another billionaire, Elon Musk, has announced he supports him.
Could West win? I’m inclined to say “almost certainly not,” but it’s 2020, a year that’s already smashed so many rules of normalcy and convention wisdom, so who knows? Trump and Biden are both in their 70s and could both stroke out during a debate. Neither I nor anyone I know watched Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but enough people did to make Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian a tabloid star. Plus there’s the question of who he picks as a running mate. The Rock?
So far I’m unable to even locate a website for the Kanye West 2020 campaign, and he has yet to file with the federal Election Commission. Working on the assumption that he does run a serious race, but can’t win, how does West’s presence effect the Trump-Biden battle? He’s jumped into the race very late, and there are probably states legally out of play:
If Kanye is actually running for president, according to Ballotpedia he's already missed the ballot deadline for:
– Maine
– Indiana
– New Mexico
– New York
– North Carolina
– Texas…that's 102 electoral votes
— David 🕊️ (@Brrrrrpp) July 5, 2020
Of those, North Carolina is the only where where the black population is large enough for West’s ballot presence to have an appreciable effect. But he could certainly have an effect on Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Nevada, all save Minnesota (riot ground zero) swing states Trump won in 2016 Democrats were looking to take back. If the race turns out to be as close as it was in 2016, and West siphons enough votes away to ensure Trump keeps all the states he won, and maybe flip Minnesota to boot, then it’s Game Over for Democrats.
It couldn’t happen to a nicer party…
Tags: 2020 Presidential Race, Democrats, Elections, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian