US rapper, Kanye West has for the second time, declared his intention to run for President of the United States.
“We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” he tweeted. “I am running for president of the United States! He tweeted.
Immediately, His wife Kim Kardashian West and entrepreneur Elon Musk endorsed him.
But it’s unclear whether West is really running or he will bail like he did the last time; but if he does this time, he will definately be running against the man he claims to admire – incumbent President Donald Trump; and of course, the Democrat Joe Biden.
It is also not the first time West has claimed that he is running for the White House.
At the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, he said he had decided to run for president in 2020.
But last November he pushed the date back, saying he would actually run in the 2024 contest.
“What are you laughing at?” he asked the crowd at Fast Company’s Innovation Festival.
“We would have created so many jobs that I’m not gonna run, I’m gonna walk,” he said, adding he was considering changing his name for the run to “Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West”.
Moreover, Kanye West does not appear to have registered his name with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for November’s election.
The closest name the FEC database shows is a candidate called “Kanye Deez Nutz West”, who filed their papers with the Green Party in 2015 under the address “1977 Golddigger Avenue, Suite Yeezus” and appears to have raised no money.
In his tweet on Saturday, US Independence Day, West, 43, did not say if his supposed run would be affiliated with a particular political party.
In any case, contesting the nomination of one major parties would be impossible at this stage, with the election only four months away.
In order to appear on the ballot as an independent candidate, West would have to gather a certain amount of signatures and register in states by a particular deadline. The deadline has already passed in some major states but the music star would still technically have time to file in many others.
Kim Kardashian West retweeted her husband’s statement about the presidential run with an American flag.
She has in recent years become a significant voice in the US movement for criminal justice reform and has successfully lobbied President Trump to release several prisoners.
