Kanye West Spent Millions on His Disastrous Run for President
Running for President takes a lot of thought and preparation, and for good reason; getting on the ballot is nothing compared to actually being President. It’s not generally something you can just decide to do at the last minute with no plan and no idea how to go about getting on the ballot.
You know, unless you have more money than brains. If you’re a rich idiot, you can just find some consultant to do all the work for you. This is true of pretty much anything, not just running for President.
So how much did Kanye West spend after deciding he wanted to be president at the last second, after the deadline had passed to get on the ballot in a large number of states? According to TMZ, over $3 million.
According to a source at Let the Voters Decide — the 3rd-party petitioning group Kanye’s been using this summer — the rapper’s campaign paid them between $3.5 and $4.5 MILLION across 15 states to send workers out for John Hancocks.
We’ve covered many of the individual states where the group has been dispersed on Kanye’s behalf, but we’re told one of the biggest chunks of money went toward Arizona — where Ye allegedly dished out $1 million to get 93,000 signatures — only to have a judge bar him from the ballot anyway.
Kanye picked a bad year to run for President because the Democrats have decided that the reason they keep losing elections isn’t because of their utter refusal to back popular policies like cannabis legalization, single-payer health care, tuition-free college and prison reform but instead is because third-party candidates have access to the ballot, and they have gone to war with the Green Party, who they see as “stealing” their votes by endorsing policies left-leaning voters support and Kanye West, who they feel will “steal” votes they deserve by being black. Joe Biden even said “Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black,” when Charlamagne tha God asked him what he was going to do for the African-American community other than not be Donald Trump.
Kanye’s Presidential run is a great example of why we need a government to provide basic social services instead of relying on the largess of the rich. Kanye could have done a lot of good for a lot of people in any number of ways with the money he spent on a Presidential run that will ultimately amount to nothing. Kanye appears to care a lot of issues and he has the phone number of the President of the United States already, his time and money would be much better spent addressing those issues by working with groups focused on those issues. But those don’t buy the kinds of headlines “Kanye West running for President” buys.