Kanye West is Running for President

~ Oh yeah - if he picks Bernie as running mate that will likely sink Biden. The DNC cannot railroad a black candidate like they did Bernie. That would be racist !

 

Kanye is a black conservative. So they can say whatever they want. Joe Biden will probably drop an n-bomb on him.

 

KANYE 2020! IM ALL IN.

 

´ ~ Yeah .. .you do have a point.

 

I’d like to heat what he has to say.

 

I don't follow him. Does he have any political experience?

 

Not in office, but he and wife (Kim Kardashian) are at least partially responsible for talking Trump into prioritizing the First Step Act, which effects an early-release of people with minor drug offenses who were imprisoned for excessively lengthy prison terms under a previous "tough on crime" act (written by Joe Biden).

Kanye and Kim have been somewhat influential on Trump in areas of social policy and fairness.

Politically "involved" versus political "experienced".

 

Thanks for responding. Given that, do you think he has a viable chance at getting elected?

 

I doubt it, but you never know. People are fed up with the swamp.

 

He might also take away the 10% of black voters who would have voted for Trump, and Trump won by very slim margins in the swing states.

And if it comes out that this is a political stunt cooked up between Trump and Kanye, there might be a real backlash against
Trump.

 

The swamp is deep. ;-(

 

Well, it is 2020. Started with the end of impeachment overlapping with the 1st serious global pandemic in 100 years overlapping with the first nationwide race riots since 1968. Mix in killer hornets, locust swarms and potential cold war with China.

Anything is possible and people are getting to the point of being angry at everything and surprised by nothing. What are the odds?

 

I had the exact reaction to Kanye running for president as I did when Trump announced he was running

I thought it was some kind of JOKE when trump said he was running

and I think it is a JOKE Kanye says he is following trumps footsteps ..

what is NOT a joke is some people will support Kanye and vote for him

and what is SAD is some people will vote again for Trump ..despite his insanity

politics have become nothing more than a form of entertainment

kinda sad actually

the country has a game show host as a president and a rapper that thinks he can be president

 

Possibly. Yours is one of the dominant theories. The other which appears to be prevalent is that many blacks are supporting Kanye. (That's anecdotal, based on watching reactions at hashtag #2020Vision on Twitter). It may not be Trump or Biden supporters, but people who were planning not to vote.

To your political stunt theory. People who want Biden to win at all costs will pursue that angle.

 

Of course - now the millions of Taylor Swift supporters who hate Kanye with a passion will be motivated to vote for Biden, so it may be a wash ... gods, this has all become so stupid.

 

I agree with that.

 

Taylor Swift could throw her name into the hat and stage an independent run herself! lol

 

I've voted for 3rd party candidates the last three elections, as a small token of protest about how screwed up both the Democrat and Republican parties have become. That is a relatively "safe" practice if you live in a solid red or a solid blue state, where your one vote isn't going to budge the election results, guaranteed. I'd love some day to see a 3rd party candidate get 15-20% of the popular vote to send a clear message to the two-party elites. They both need to be shaken into change.

Having said that, for people living in purple states where the vote could go either way, it's best to go with either the Dem or Rep candidate, depending if you lean liberal or conservative.

 

And the source that Meme?

Somebody who goes by @r_vishal1 on Twitter?

A person with 68 Followers groveling for likes and retweets (by posting Pro-Trump Memes)?

That's it. It is all over.

Trump now has the Support of a Major Social Media Influencer

And, back to the OP and Kanye...

He needs to do much more if he is actually serious.

 

Already happened and it made no difference: Perot won 19% and 0 electoral votes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election

 

And the left are saying it's a nefarious plot to siphon away black votes from the demented one, once again taking the black vote for granted.

 

It's hard to say what difference it made, small or large, and apparently temporary, but I'd argue the impact was greater than "none". Hard to say, also, how any impact might be different 30 years later.

 

Disappointingly typical response. It’s not hard to say - it made no difference. You asserted that you were interested to see a 3rd party candidate get 15-20% of the popular vote and then when facts were provided to you that it had already happened you just punt with who knows what its impact was. I assert that it’s gonna take a lot more effort than a hail mary third party candidate receiving 20% of the popular vote to change the broke ass US political system.

 

I isn't. They just switched heads. Elon's head is on Kayne's body and vice-versa.

 

Yeah, okay, call me "typical" blah, blah.

Almost nothing that happens in politics makes "no difference". Voters were unhappy with G.H.W. Bush, but perhaps not thrilled with Democrat Clinton either. People stepping out of the 2-party norm was a protest signal against both candidates. Congress that year went heavily Democrat, which would suggest that Perot voters voted Democrats down ballot. More Congressmen worked across the aisle on bipartisan bills for 2 years. Republicans took over Congress in large numbers at the first mid-term. By the end on Clinton's 2nd term bipartisan agreement and working across the aisle deteriorated to almost zilch.