My theory on Kanye West running for president

[WonderGrunion]

I think Trump asked him to run. In his dementia addled mind, Trump thought: Kanye is a friend of mine, he's black and young people like him. If he runs for president, black people and young people will not vote for Biden and I win.

Tea party former governor of Maine, Paul LePage did this with Elliot Cutler to split the independent vote. Trump just visited Maine with LePage in tow, so he probably gave him some form of this idea.

[iemitsu]

1. Kanye is also releasing a new album

so I suspect it is the publicity that he is after. He is already too late to get on ballots in 8 states. He is not a serious candidate.
Reminds me of Pat Paulsen for president.
Except that Paulsen was a better candidate.

[Nevilledog]

2. Hmmmm

[Mike 03]

5. Great meme

Hope it's circulating widely, and somewhere that Kanye will see it.

[pandr32]

3. It also serves as a distraction from Bountygate

[LakeArenal]

4. Kanye is a nut. That's it.

His ego and dump’s ego are so similar.

[Politicub]

6. I think it was a whim. It's too bad Twitter is as effective as it is for spawning so much

attention for some people based on a sentence or two.

Twitter is more of a mass communication medium than social media.

[FakeNoose]

7. How did he go from $53 million in debt

... to making $150 million per year? Somehow West, Chump and Zuckerberg are in cahoots over this.

Whether he actually "runs" or not, this jump from deep debt to multimillionaire in a few short years - it's just highly suspicious.

[dhill926]

8. I suspect this won't even be news in a couple weeks...

[betsuni]

18. In a couple of days.

[FM123]

9. trumpy prob thinks when Kanye eventually drops out his "voters" will transfer their votes to him

[hunter]

11. Nah, Trump isn't that deep.

Whenever Trump sees Kanye he's imagining himself fucking Kim Kardashian.

Look at any of the pictures of Trump and Kanye together and tell me it isn't so.

[Docreed2003]

10. I would offer this suggestion

Please don't reduce our Black brothers and sisters by suggesting they are dumb enough to fall for this, they aren't....the collective narcissism of Kanye and Trump may feel that way, but it's nonsense.

[WonderGrunion]

17. For the record, I don't think anyone except Trump is dumb enough to believe it

Kanye is smarter than to believe it, but he us a supreme narcissist

[moose65]

12. When I saw that he was "running"

I just knew it had to be a joke. I guess the joke is on US! Lord...

[RGTIndy]

13. You have to actually have some kind of a field operation in every state

in order to get the required signatures to run as an independent. He'll be on the ballot in exactly zero states.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. Exactly. Thank you!! nt

[nykym]

15. He would have a hard time of it

While there is no cut off date for running as a candidate States have rules and dates for filling to be on the ballot.
Most of which he has missed. And as a write in candidate, well we know how well that works...

More info at link
https://ballotpedia.org/Deadline_to_run_for_president

[JI7]

16. no, he is an attention whore and people keep giving it to him