Kanye West again says he will run for president

Kanye West again says he will run for president

 Kanye West again says he will run for president

US rapper Kanye West has said he is running for president, doubtlessly pitting him in opposition to a person he says he admires, Donald Trump.

"We have to now realise the promise of America by means of trusting God, unifying our imaginative and prescient and constructing our destiny," he tweeted. "I'm running for president of America!"

Kanye West again says he will run for president

His wife Kim Kardashian West and entrepreneur Elon Musk endorsed him.

But it's doubtful whether or not West is surely jogging.

He does not seem to have registered his name with the Federal Election commission (FEC) for November's election. The closest name the FEC database indicates is a candidate known as "Kanye Deez Nutz West", who filed their papers with the green birthday party in 2015 underneath the address "1977 Golddigger avenue, Suite Yeezus" and looks to have raised no cash.

It's also now not the primary time West has claimed that he's going for walks for the White residence.

On the 2015 MTV Video tune Awards, he said he had determined to run for president in 2020.

But last November he pushed the date back, saying he would sincerely run within the 2024 contest.

"What are you giggling at?" he asked the gang at rapid organisation's Innovation Festival.

"We might have created such a lot of jobs that I am not gonna run, I'm gonna stroll," he stated, including he became considering changing his name for the run to "Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West".

In his tweet on Saturday, US Independence Day, West, 43, did now not say if his supposed run could be affiliated with a specific political celebration.

In any case, contesting the nomination of 1 main party might be impossible at this stage, with the election best four months away.

If you want to appear at the poll as an unbiased candidate, West would need to accumulate a positive amount of signatures and sign in in states by using a particular cut-off date. The deadline has already handed in some most important states but the track celebrity would still technically have time to report in many others.

This yr's contest is probable to be a direct struggle between Republican President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.

In 2018, West made a weird look on the White residence with President Trump during which he wore a Make the united states remarkable once more hat and made an expletive-stuffed rant that Mr Trump defined as "pretty something".

"I love this man proper right here," West said, strolling at the back of the desk to hug the seated president, who said: "This is honestly satisfactory."

The rapper also pushed lower back at the idea that African-individuals are overwhelmingly Democratic birthday party citizens, saying: "people anticipate that if you're black, you have to be Democrat."

Kim Kardashian West retweeted her husband's assertion approximately the presidential run with an American flag.

She has in current years emerge as a sizable voice in the US motion for criminal justice reform and has efficiently lobbied President Trump to release numerous prisoners.