Fox & Friends Promotes Kanye West's Presidential Bid: 'The Unifying Force We've All Been Waiting For

[babylonsister]

7/05/20 11:08am

Fox & Friends Promotes Kanye West's Presidential Bid: 'The Unifying Force We’ve All Been Waiting For'
The hosts of "Fox & Friends" argued on Sunday that Kanye West could unite the country by running for president in 2020.
By David


The hosts of Fox & Friends argued on Sunday that Kanye West could unite the country by running for president in 2020.

During a segment on the Fox News morning show, host Jedidiah Bila noted that West had recently hinted on Twitter that he may be a candidate in 2020.

"I think that expectation of unity can exist somewhere and should exist somewhere, but you also have to expect that you're not going to agree on this stuff," Bila explained. "So it's very, very challenging to find unity."

"Now, one person who has been talked about a lot about potentially being able to bring some unity is Kanye West," she continued. "That's right. Kanye West might be running for president."

"Could Kanye be the unifying force that we have all be waiting for?" Bila wondered.

"That is the question that I woke up, of course, thinking this morning," co-host Todd Piro replied. "Who knows what this means for the upcoming election."

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[mucifer]

1. So they want to take votes from trump?

[Iliyah]

3. Looks like it . . .

[Mike 03]

4. I hope it works out like that, if his run even gets out of the starting gate.

This Kanye bullshit really stinks.

It's just complete bullshit--excuse my language. He's a dumbass tool POS.

[Maeve]

2. It means he's got a new record to flog

Or that he was bored and decided to have some twitter fun....gawd, that anyone could take this seriously!

[a kennedy]

5. Oh for gawd sake.......a unifying force??? Give me a damn break.

[Takket]

6. i know what they are doing, but this not the way to do it........

drumpf had Kanye put himself in the race because he's hoping it will erode enough minority votes from Biden for drumpf to win. so they want to push Kanye but doing it on Fox news where only drumpf voters are watching is only going to make drumpf voters leave lol

[unas3]

7. Just a FOX plot to rob Biden of black vote so Trumpet Mouth can win.

Just another republican plot!

[wryter2000]

15. Except

Black people won’t vote for him. They don’t vote by skin color. Only stupid white people think they do.

[StarfishSaver]

39. This!

They think we're even dumber than Trump supporters are.

[Greybnk48]

8. So we're ignoring Kanye Kardashian's serious mental illness

that quite often goes untreated? The GOP is really going to exploit this man's mental disease?

[wryter2000]

16. In a word

Yes

[SeattleVet]

21. Why not? They ignored tRump's and used him.

[Mike 03]

9. I wonder if Schwarzenegger could be convinced to jump in and take one for

the team. He's one of the few politicians I can think of that might siphon votes away from Trump.

Or, hell, David Duke! Richard Spencer. Trump isn't racist enough for the ultra-racists. Maybe they should run a pure, unadulterated racist.

[wryter2000]

17. Schwarzenegger wasn't born here

He doesn’t qualify.

[Xolodno]

33. He's already gone on record...

...on NOT voting for Trump. Even when he was running for governor, he refused donations from Trump. Think that pretty much says it all.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if he comes out later for Biden, he actually thought very highly or Warren. He's what the radical right calls, a RINO.

[HotTeaBag]

10. I'm not laughing.

Kanye could very well do some damage - especially with those who are still wanting to tear down the system, and as we saw in 2016 it doesn't take much to tip a state to 'R' - especially when we consider that we'll be voting against the backdrop of a pandemic and immense efforts of voter suppression.

[kurtcagle]

28. I doubt it

Kanye has a really weird Venn Diagram of potential supporters - conservative intersects black intersects young intersects anarchist. They are out there - all twelve or so of them - and they probably are already committed to Trump. They're the very occasional token black you see at Trump rallies. As far as I can tell, it's a group that wouldn't vote Democrat or Biden if you paid them to. This means that if it's going to siphon off anyone's votes, it'd be Trump's. Frankly, it's about the stupidest thing that Trump could do.

What's more, per Biden himself, his VP will be a black woman. Biden is not young, and while I do not think he is likely to die any time soon, the possibility that he will retire after one term is fairly high, meaning that he (and likely Obama) will be mentoring the first black female president by 2024 at the latest. Young black men don't vote in significant numbers. Young black women do.

[HotTeaBag]

30. Cool, go ahead and doubt it.

I'm not.

You have zero idea with regard to who might or might not support Kanye - and neither do I.

We based our assumptions on what appeared obvious in 2016 and look where we are now.

[kurtcagle]

36. I'm basing my assumptions largely on what I know about the current electorate

I'm not denying that there are people who want to see the whole system burn to the ground. What I'm arguing is that this demographic was likely already supporting Trump in the first place, because he's the one with the torches. These aren't independent voters (and they're certainly not Democrats), but they also in general DON'T VOTE, because voting means that they're giving credence to the system.

Yes, I'm a fifty-something white man with a heart condition, so I can't necessarily relate, but I'm also a journalist who follows data trends very closely, especially in the political space. I've written for Forbes and CNET. What I'm seeing is that most younger people, people in their teens through their thirties, have absorbed the lessons of BLM at a very profound level, and they are if anything angered by the destructive impulses around them, and they see Trump as being the nexus of this.

[HotTeaBag]

37. I don't disagree with your arguments at all.

The only thing I will say with regard to who might vote for Kanye is that his appeal goes far beyond just who we might think it does - I know a ton of idiots who are into Kanye and believe it or not, might just vote for him because they don't fully understand the true danger this country is in.

And as far as people who want to burn the system to the ground, they aren't just Trump supporters, there are a lot of them on the far left - take a listen to Chapo Trap House or District Sentinel Radio or the Trillbillies - they (perhaps rightly) feel like the system as a whole is a complete and utter failure and does nothing to address their needs and the needs of millions of Americans and would like nothing more than to see it all come crashing down.

I'm troubled because of the unknowns and because it takes so little to lose the EC.

[StarfishSaver]

40. I can think of no black voters who are planning or likely to vote for Biden

who will switch to West.

The White people gaming this out for Trump and West think black people are as stupid as Trump supporters are. We're not.

[PJMcK]

11. It's not going to happen so don't get too worked up

The deadline to get on the ballots in many states have already passed and a bunch more are coming up this month.

It's too late for West to plot a third-party run. This lack of knowledge of the system illustrates two things: first, West is pulling a stunt, (are you surprised?); second, the Fox hosts don't know how elections work, either.

This is just a bunch of idiots making noise on a holiday weekend. Ignore them.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. It's more like Kimye, since she's the driver in that relationship.

[BSdetect]

13. West is one notch down from flat earthers. On the brain cell count.

[live love laugh]

14. I would bet a lot of $$$ he's being paid by the right to run. nt

As for a comparison to Trump (if the race were only between these two and I was as batshit crazy as Cult45) I’d say Kanye’s more qualified than Trump. Why? Because Kanye isn’t a crook, or a mobster or a traitor. And they are both mentally ill sooooo ...

[Thekaspervote]

18. Unifies who? Most have never heard of him...leave it to fux news to say such ludicrous shit

[spanone]

19. Bwahahahahahahaaaaa

[MyOwnPeace]

20. Just play the tape

of his visit to BunkerBoy several months ago in the Oval Office.
THAT will kill any votes he may think he will get!

[IowaGuy]

22. One demographic will not support him in any way.....

I am an old man and don't purport to have any significant inside info or insight to a lot of popular culture;
but I do feel fairly safe in saying Taylor Swift Nation will not go there.

[crickets]

31. *snerk* Good one.

All jokes aside, Taylor Swift is a force on her own to be reckoned with. You do make a good point.

[Grins]

23. Who is this "we" that she refers to?

“...the unifying force that we have all be waiting for?" Bila wondered.”

And why would the mouthpiece for the GOP want that now?

[KatyaR]

24. Wouldn't it be hysterical if Kanye

was chosen to be tRump's VP candidate? On all levels....



It won't help, but oh, how funny it would be....

[dhill926]

25. aaand....not The Onion....

jesus...

[LanternWaste]

26. Fox will advertise it as a credible campaign to engender division within the left

and give their viewers a Scary Black Man to rally around in communal fear. It's good for ratings, thus it's good for their paychecks.

The left however, will see it as it is... one of over thousand, inconsequential people who threw their hats into the ring who will go no where.

My guess is Mr West is a guy who by virtue of his own fame, doesn't like being dramatically less popular than his spouse.

[renate]

27. The plot of this movie is beyond ridiculous

Nobody will ever believe it.

[Mr. Ected]

29. Is FOX cooking up a Kanye for Trump switcheroo?

Don't tell them that Kanye has an attribute that is most unappealing to most MAGAts.

Just sayin'.

[Liberal In Texas]

32. No, they think he'll take away votes for Biden.

You know, 'cause black folks are to stupid and will vote for him because he's a black dude.

[Xolodno]

34. This one of those....PULL!....*BANG*...

things. Even if he remotely gets anything, all the DNC has to do is run ads with his praises of Trump, photo ops with Trump, etc.

Reality....this is just to get attention for his new album, nothing more. At this point in the game, he needs a huge team just to get on ballots....and many are already too late. And a simple announcement isn't the way to go, he should have been campaigning well before that.

In short, its a lot of bullshit. And the media is grabbing on to it because, they are all tired of reporting what crazy shit Trump said today.

[BlueIdaho]

35. This is pathetic...

And transparent, and stupid.

[tavernier]

38. No worries

Kim Kardashian’s butt won’t fit in Air Force One