Kanye West announces 2024 presidential campaign
Global News
The move follows a previously failed presidential bid in 2020 and a slew of scandals in recent weeks regarding the rapper's antisemitic comments.
Rapper Kanye West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, has announced that he intends to run for U.S. president in 2024 in a series of campaign videos released late Thursday evening.
The move follows a previously failed presidential bid in 2020 that saw him garner a measly 60,000 votes.
In the first of his campaign videos, Ye claims he asked former president Donald Trump to be his running mate. Trump announced last week that he is also running for president in 2024 after a failed re-election campaign in 2020.
Ye even polled his Twitter followers, asking what they thought Trump’s response was when the rapper asked him to be his vice-president.
In the video following the poll, titled “Mar-A-Lago Debrief,” Ye claims that his offer left the former president “perturbed.”
“Trump started basically screaming at me at the table, telling me I’m going to lose,” Ye said in 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.”
