{"id":56676,"date":"2020-07-05T04:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T09:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56676"},"modified":"2020-07-05T12:01:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T17:01:52","slug":"56676","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56676","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The figuring is that Kanye will pull most of his votes from demoncraps.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/entertainment\/celebrity\/kanye-west-declares-he-will-run-for-us-president-in-2020\/ar-BB16lEaQ\">Kanye West declares he will run for US president in 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought 2020 couldn\u2019t get any weirder, rapper Kanye West declared his candidacy for US president.<\/p>\n<p>The unlikely challenger to Donald Trump \u2013 of whom he has been a vocal supporter \u2013 and Joe Biden, chose American independence day to make the surprise announcement on Twitter, triggering a social media storm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,\u201d\u00a0West wrote.\u00a0\u201cI am running for president of the United States.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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 ??! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2020VISION?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#2020VISION<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ye (@kanyewest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1279575273365594112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The post was accompanied by a stars and stripes flag, an exclamation mark and \u201c#2020VISION\u201d. His wife, Kim Kardashian West, replied to the tweet with an American flag.<\/p>\n<p>With just four months to go before polling day on 3 November, it was not clear whether West\u2019s tweet would have been more fitting on April Fools\u2019 day than American Independence Day.<\/p>\n<p>Nor was it clear whether the 43-year-old had filed any official paperwork to appear on state election ballots. The deadline to add independent candidates to the ballot has not yet passed in many states.<\/p>\n<p>But after businessman and reality TV star Trump won the White House in 2016, perhaps the idea of Kim Kardashian as first lady could be written in the stars as America\u2019s fate.<\/p>\n<p>And West, a 21-time Grammy award winner, picked up an immediate endorsement from Elon Musk, the chief executive of electric-car maker Tesla and another celebrity known for eccentric outbursts, who tweeted in reply: \u201cYou have my full support!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A West-Musk ticket is not what anyone was expecting in an election that has already delivered a cornucopia of the unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>West and his wife have visited Trump in the White House to discuss prison reform. At one bizarre meeting in 2018, West wore a red \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d cap and uttered words such as \u201cmotherfucker\u201d and \u201cinfinite amounts of universe\u201d. He said Trump made him feel like Superman, hugged him and declared: \u201cI love this guy right here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if West could be a future presidential candidate, Trump replied: \u201cCould very well be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West replied: \u201cOnly after 2024. Let\u2019s stop worrying about the future. All we really have is today. We just have today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the rapper has floated the idea of running for president before. In January last year, a tweet that said simply \u201c2024\u201d was interpreted as a sign that he would run for the White House that year.<\/p>\n<p>West was criticised last week after declaring: \u201cI am so proud of my beautiful wife Kim Kardashian West for officially becoming a billionaire.\u201d She had sold a stake in her beauty brand for $200m. But he also earned praise for releasing a single about racism and religion.<\/p>\n<p>If he ran, West would follow in a long tradition of independent or third-party campaigns challenging the Democratic and Republican stranglehold. In 1992, Ross Perot, an eccentric Texan billionaire, took 19% of the vote. In 2000, Ralph Nader\u2019s Green party took less than 3% but was widely blamed for costing Democrat Al Gore the presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The figuring is that Kanye will pull most of his votes from demoncraps. Kanye West declares he will run for US president in 2020 Just when you thought 2020 couldn\u2019t get any weirder, rapper Kanye West declared his candidacy for US president. 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