Kanye West announces 2024 presidential campaign – National | 24CA News
Rapper Kanye West, who has legally modified his title to Ye, has introduced that he intends to run for U.S. president in 2024 in a sequence of marketing campaign movies launched late Thursday night.
The transfer follows a beforehand failed presidential bid in 2020 that noticed him garner a measly 60,000 votes.
In the primary of his marketing campaign movies, Ye claims he requested former president Donald Trump to be his working mate. Trump introduced final week that he’s additionally working for president in 2024 after a failed re-election marketing campaign in 2020.
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Ye even polled his Twitter followers, asking what they thought Trump’s response was when the rapper requested him to be his vice-president.
In the video following the ballot, titled “Mar-A-Lago Debrief,” Ye claims that his supply left the previous president “perturbed.”
“Trump started basically screaming at me at the table, telling me I’m going to lose,” Ye stated within the video.
“I mean, has that ever worked for anyone in history?” Ye added. “I’m like, hold on, hold on, hold on, Trump, you’re talking to Ye.”
Ye additionally stated within the video that he believed Trump ought to have freed the individuals who had been detained for taking part within the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol.
Ye additionally tweeted a textual content trade that seems to point out that alt-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulous and white nationalist Nick Fuentes have joined his marketing campaign crew. Each of their contacts in Ye’s telephone has YE24 added, the tagline that the rapper has been utilizing in all of his marketing campaign movies.
Ye’s presidential bid comes on the heels of a slew of damaging scandals across the outspoken rapper and clothier.
He provoked outrage throughout Paris Fashion Week by sporting a T-shirt with the slogan “White Lives Matter,” a phrase that has been utilized by white supremacists to low cost the Black Lives Matter motion.
While defending himself on-line, Ye made antisemitic feedback that led to him being suspended from Twitter and Instagram.
Ye claimed that his critics had been being paid by a secret cabal of Jewish folks, a typical antisemitic trope. The Guardian reported that, at one level, he stated he would go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
The outrage that adopted led Ye’s expertise company to drop him, and a number of trend firms, together with Adidas, Balenciaga and Gap, lower ties with him. The rapper later stated that he misplaced “two billion dollars in one day” as a result of financial blowback.
A day earlier than saying his presidential bid, Adidas said that it was launching an investigation into Ye over allegations of harassment in opposition to staff who labored on his Yeezy shoe line. Adidas staff advised Rolling Stone journal that Ye used “mind games” to create a “toxic environment” within the firm.
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Ye is the second particular person to announce their 2024 presidential bid, behind Trump. It appears he desires to get an early begin this election after saying his 2020 marketing campaign too late to seem on the poll in a number of states.
In the top, Ye was solely listed as a presidential candidate in 12 states in 2020 and held just one rally — wherein he broke down whereas discussing abortion and his then-wife Kim Kardashian.
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