Kanye West Announces He Will Run For President Again
Shortly after returning to Twitter, Kanye West announced he is running for president in 2024.
In a video from X17Online, a camera person asked if he is running for president. Kanye responds, “Yes…It’s simple… It’s just we’re moving toward the future.”
Milo Yiannopoulos, a far-right commentator who was dropped from speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2017 after comments he made allegedly endorsing pedophilia, was in the video. Kanye said Yiannopoulos was “working on the campaign.”
This would be West’s second run for president.
See the video below:
Kanye West’s run for president in 2020 was littered with controversies. An avid supporter of Trump’s presidency, West announced he was running for president in July 2020. While the rapper held several campaign events, he missed the deadline to register to appear as a candidate on ballots in many states. Kanye, who said he never voted, then sued many states to get on the ballot but failed.
Kanye, who also goes by Ye, was accused of working with GOP operatives on his campaign, according to an August 2020 story from The New York Times. An investigation by The Daily Beast revealed that federal documents showed Ye received millions of dollars in services from Republican insiders. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, reviewed hundreds of court documents tied to West's campaign and told The Daily Beast that the campaign’s filings were a “disaster.”
"It's very clear that the whole point behind Kanye's campaign was to try to re-elect Donald Trump," Jordan Libowitz, the organization's communications director, told the news website. "Whether that was a goal of Kanye is another issue. But he was clearly seen as a way to steal potential votes from Biden."
In the end, only about 60,000 voters cast ballots his way. However, the controversies didn’t stop there. According to Reuters, Trevian Kutti, a publicist for West, said she was sent by a “high-profile individual” to give election worker Ruby Freeman an important message. In January 2021, she showed up at Freeman’s home. She urged Freeman to confess to fraud allegations, or people would come to her residence in 48 hours, and she’d go to jail. Freeman, a Black woman, faced death threats after Trump called her out by name as being responsible for his loss in Georgia. Freeman’s daughter, Shaye Moss, would testify at the Jan. 6 committee hearing.
Pierre Rougier, a spokesperson for West, said in a statement that Kutti “was not associated with Kanye West or any of his enterprises at the times of the facts that are reported in these articles or since these facts occurred.” It was unclear when Kutti stopped working for West.
It’s unknown if West has officially filed to run for president in 2024.
