Musician and entrepreneur Kanye West announces he’s running for President, and Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweets “You have my full support.” While most consider this a joke, or marketing ploy, if he sticks to it he can hurt Trump and Biden, but from whom does he take the most support?
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11 replies on “Kanye West for President: Does He Hurt Trump or Biden More?”
I think that overall Kanye West’s candidacy will hurt Democrats. But I hope that you explore later the idea that while it’s not necessarily a “conspiracy” between West and Trump that West might run and then in October withdraw and endorse Trump, West might have another agenda that would happen to benefit Trump. That agenda would be to break the monolithic hold that the Democrats have on black voters.
I just read an article over on DW about West’s interview with Forbes. I haven’t read the Forbes interview myself, only what DW highlighted. But I found DW’s highlights extremely interesting.
So I would argue, based on these interview excerpts (which are presumably selected with some bias–and please note that almost all of the tiny amount I know about West comes from Whittle or DW), that West’s agenda may not be so much pro-Trump as anti-Democrat, and that he is savvy enough to have studied the 2016 campaign and realized that he can use a presidential campaign and the media to get the things he wants to talk about–in the moral language he wants to use–out into the public discourse in a way that he could not do otherwise.
For example, a different man named West, Allen West, posted an Independence Day video on his youtube channel wherein he talked about the founding of the Republican Party of Texas by a group of 150 former slaves on July 4th, 1867. The video has fewer than 10K views so far. Imagine if Kanye West talked about that in a media interview, or on his own media, or at a presidential debate or “town hall” circus.
If he can convince 20% of black voters, especially young voters, that Democrats are the ones that have a race problem and do not deserve their support, the effects on the future political landscape of our country could be profound.
You’re right, Bill. The balance between absolute evil and lesser evil IS remarkable. The problem with people who identify with absolute evil is that they know they suppress the truth and reject self-evidence. The DNC platform has hidden its evil plank in plain sight for generations. When a large number of people hold up placards saying “Abortion is a human right,” their delusion is so deep-rooted that trying to reason with them is humanly impossible. This is their cornerstone. This is their god. They worship death. As long as their candidate upholds the “safe, legal and rare” absurdity, they will march in lock-step. You’re only spitting into the wind. God sent the delusion, so let God take it away!
Kanye West will have exactly the same degree of influence on the election of Donald Trump as Jo Jorgensen will have. Who is Jo Jorgensen? She’s the Libertarian Party nominee for POTUS. If you didn’t know that, it’s because the Libertarian Party has such a tiny political footprint it doesn’t even get a blip on Bill Whittle’s radar. (One of the major Libertarian candidates this year is named “Supreme Vermin”, ISYN.)
Four million Americans voted for the Libertarian candidate in 2016. My personal, biased, completely-not-humble opinion is that a lot less will be voting the Libertarian ticket this year and most of those who don’t but do vote one way or the other will vote Republican. We’ll see what we shall see.
If Kanye West is serious, which is highly doubtful, and if he follows through all the way to election day, again very doubtful, he might pull a few votes. The odds are better than 4:1 those voters would have voted Democrat simply because 4+ out of 5 black voters vote Democrat. Conservative black voters are not going to vote for Kanye West, if they’re black and they vote conservative they’re already way too smart to fall for what will amount to a protest vote like the Libertarian Party voters.
As far as the chances of Trump failing to gain a second term because of Kanye West are concerned, I’m not a bit worried.
At this point unless he was going to be the Libertarian Party or Green party or one of those with ballot access to run whatever fringe candidate they like, his lack of ground game would hurt.
Here in VA, an independent presidential candidate only needs 5,000 signatures by 8/21/2020. But there have to be at least 200 from each congressional district. That takes a ground game that doesn’t spring up overnight.
If Trump weren’t running, I’d vote for the gay fish.
Is this a trial balloon for Whittle/Ott in 2024? =8^)
I think Kanye West running will hurt the Democrats more. As Bill said most Trump voters will stay with him. Who will vote for him? Fans (mainly younger), some blacks because he is blacjk, and people who just feel good voting for him. These three groups tend to lean left. Just not sure if it’ll make a significant difference.
Agree, he may be the perfect inter-sectional vote for the SJW crowd concerned about such things. Considering how long he has lived with Kardashians could an October surprise be brewing?
I don’t think so…Trump will take the election in 2020 hands down.
Assuming you mean a surprise for him pulled from leaked home videos of his wife’s family… maybe. I would only suspect such a thing though if the Dem officials think he’s leaching too much of their black support and want to shove him in front of the train.
I was tongue in cheek thinking adding to his “intersectionality” by coming out as homosexual or a trans (ie: Bruce Jenner). He is already, black, pop cultural musician, drug user, and probably a few other things only his wife knows for sure. I don’t think there is a significant Trump impact if he runs. Most likely Biden.