Jones, a Denver resident who said he voted for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, said he went with West on his ballot this time because he isn’t satisfied with either Trump or Biden. Markham Robinson, vice chair of the AIP, told TMZ the far-right political party nominated West and De La Fuente without either candidate knowing, and the hope is to take away votes from Biden. Now he’s running for president as a member of the “Birthday Party.” In California, he’s listed on the ballot as a vice presidential candidate for the American Independent Party alongside presidential nominee Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra. You can’t shut down people’s ideas just because they don't seem like they’re going to pan out.”Ī registered Republican in Wyoming, West has been outspoken about his support for Trump, notoriously wearing the red “Make America Great Again” hat and visiting the White House. “But you have to let people believe in what they want to believe in.
“I haven’t been super open about it, but I’ve gotten a lot of flack from people who do know ,” Tablada said. So he started to seriously consider West as an option. In June, Tablada saw footage of West marching in a Black Lives Matter protest in Chicago - something the 19-year-old Floridian was disappointed that neither Trump nor Biden participated in. Tablada said he was initially skeptical when the rapper announced his candidacy. “So if I vote for Kanye, I feel like I’m taking that first step to move forward as a country and move towards having multiple parties.” “We have to wake up as a group of people and realize that we aren’t limited by two choices, because not everyone lines up with the views of the Democratic Party,” William Tablada said. They also don’t have much in common except their disdain for the predominantly two-party system. In the past, some of them had only cast ballots for either Republicans or Democrats others are first-time voters. In August, a survey by Morning Consult/Politico showed that only 2% of 2,000 registered voters in the US supported West.īuzzFeed News spoke to seven people who said they plan on voting for or have already voted for West, ranging from ages 19 to 42 in states across the country, including Florida, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and California. Am I voting for change? Am I voting for my interests? Yes,” 33-year-old Quentin Jones told BuzzFeed News.Īfter officially announcing his candidacy in mid-July and reportedly spending nearly $12 million on his own campaign, West is only on the ballot in 11 states, making it mathematically impossible for him to earn enough votes to become the next president of the United States. And yet people disenfranchised with the electoral system say they’re voting for him anyway.
Louis' Union Station, \"That is one for the books!\"Īt Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, West now-famously declared his candidacy for President of the United States in 2020.Īt a press conference in New York yesterday, GOP front-runner Donald Trump addressed a question about Kanye's candidacy, going as far as saying "I love him" and "maybe in a few years I'll have to run against him.There is no plausible reality in which Kanye West becomes the next president. Truman holds up an Election Day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which, based on early results, mistakenly announced \"Dewey Defeats Truman\" on Nov. Dewey, leading the Chicago Daily Tribune to print an incorrect banner headline on the front page on November 3, 1948. Truman famously upset his Republican opponent Thomas E.
The illustration features a depiction of Kanye West holding up a newspaper with the headline "TRUMP DEFEATS KANYE," in a direct allusion to the iconic photo of President Harry Truman in 1948. The New Yorker is out with their latest cover-this time, featuring cultural disruptor Kanye West.
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