Kanye West, the hip-hop artist and designer who launched an impartial presidential bid earlier this yr, solid a vote for himself on Tuesday in what
Kanye West, the hip-hop artist and designer who launched an impartial presidential bid earlier this yr, solid a vote for himself on Tuesday in what he mentioned on Twitter was his first time voting in a presidential election.
As a result of Mr. West, whose marketing campaign started comparatively late within the presidential race, didn’t qualify for the poll in Wyoming, the place he lives, he was compelled to vote for his personal ticket as a write-in possibility.
“Preserve believing Kanye 2020,” he wrote on Twitter, the place he shared a video of his poll. (Wyoming doesn’t have legal guidelines forbidding photographs of accomplished ballots.)
He subsequently shared a second video of his poll being scanned, which he known as “the primary vote of my life.”
Mr. West’s marketing campaign was dogged by questions from its inception. When the music mogul launched his bid, some Democrats feared that Mr. West, who has beforehand voiced his help for President Trump, may very well be a spoiler in aggressive states, siphoning votes that may have gone to Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Although Mr. West ran as an impartial — his social gathering is known as the Birthday Social gathering — Republican-aligned political operatives have been later discovered to be aiding Mr. West’s efforts to qualify for the poll.
Even with the assistance, Mr. West’s candidacy was marked by a battle to make the poll in most states. The marketing campaign missed the deadline in lots of states and failed to gather sufficient legitimate signatures in others.
However Mr. West does seem on ballots in a dozen states, together with Colorado, Minnesota and Iowa.