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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKanye West takes anti-vaccine, anti-abortion stance in US presidential bid
Kanye West has given more details about the policy platform he will adopt in his bid to become US president in November, declaring himself anti-abortion, sceptical about a Covid-19 vaccine and keen to return fear and love of God to education.
In an interview with Forbes, he announced that he would run under the banner of the Birthday party, because when we win its everybodys birthday. His campaign slogan is a leaner version of Barack Obamas Yes we can message, reading simply YES.
West has missed the deadline to appear on the ballot in a number of states, but he argued that he could be added as a latecomer due to the coronavirus.He said he was going to speak with Jared Kushner, the White House, with Biden to make his bid a reality although he was also critical of the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Wests campaign advisers are his wife, the TV star Kim Kardashian-West, and the Tesla founder Elon Musk, both of whom have endorsed him. Speaking about Musk, West said: I proposed to him to be the head of our space programme.
West said that if he were to win either in 2020 or 2024, the year in which he previously hinted he would run it would be Gods appointment. He praised Donald Trump as the closest president weve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/08/kanye-west-takes-anti-vaccine-anti-abortion-stance-in-us-presidential-bid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The rapper intends to run for election under the banner of the Birthday Party.
I would run as a Republican if Trump wasnt there. I will run as an independent if Trump is there, West told Forbes
West says he believes he was sick with Covid-19 in February and is suspicious of a potential vaccine, according to Forbes.
West denied that his announcement was a publicity stunt for his upcoming album
West has selected Michelle Tidball, a preacher from Wyoming, to be his running mate, according to the report
NOTE: West has taken almost no concrete steps toward a presidential bid, including filing papers officially declaring a candidacy, qualifying for ballot access or building out a campaign infrastructure
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-08/rapper-kanye-west-says-he-no-longer-supports-trump-forbes
Who is Michelle Tidball, his running mate?
In a wide-ranging interview with Forbes in which Kanye West confirmed he is serious about running for presidentthe famed billionaire rapper said he plans to tap as his running mate Michelle Tidball, who describes herself as a biblical life coach, and who once said on one of her bible teleconferences that she doesnt watch news.
In Cody, the 57-year-old Tidball runs her own online bible study program under the nonprofit name Abundant Ministries.
On her biography page, Tidball touts various degrees in mental health and criminal justice and says she previously worked as a mental health therapist for ten years before transitioning into life coaching.
Tidball previously served as an executive director of Bright Futures Mentoring Program, a nonprofit that helped mentor students in Cody https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2020/07/08/who-is-michelle-tidball-kanye-wests-proposed-presidential-running-mate/#7cb4b1341ee1
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)We already have a idiot in the WH, and now another one is running, my gawd.
captain queeg
(10,281 posts)I cant imagine any Biden supporters will go that route. If anyone loses votes to him itll be the Il Dunce voters.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)out there for 2024 or it's some kind of grift. Ugh. He's going for the evangelical , anti-vaxxer vote.
highplainsdem
(49,091 posts)I'm more concerned about any attempts he makes to draw black voters away from Biden, but Kanye is so crazy that I don't think he'll be at all successful.
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)album won't be free either.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I've spent time with a bipolar friend who was hospitalized while manic - I recognize the patterns.
I am not a fan of him or his family, but I wish them well in getting through this episode.
H2O Man
(73,668 posts)Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)highplainsdem
(49,091 posts)something from The Onion.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2020/07/08/kanye-west-says-hes-done-with-trump-opens-up-about-white-house-bid-damaging-biden-and-everything-in-between/
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A lot of Africans do not like the movie [Black Panther] and representation of themselves in Wakanda. But Im gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because its the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House That is a positive idea: you got Kanye West, one of the most powerful humansIm not saying the most because you got a lot of alien level superpowers and its only collectively that we can set it free. Lets get back to Wakanda like in the movie in Wakanda when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes. Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicinelike big pharmawe are going to work, innovate, together. This is not going to be some Nipsey Hussle being murdered, theyre doing a documentary, we have so many soldiers that die for our freedom, our freedom of information, that there is a cure for AIDS out there, there is going to be a mix of big pharma and holistic.
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Much more at that link.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)JI7
(89,283 posts)imanamerican63
(13,831 posts)Thats all I gotta say about this!
Cha
(297,935 posts)a repub since the fucking Hell Monster is that candidate.. but Will Run against him as a 3rd party RF?
Have at it Asshole.
CurtEastPoint
(18,674 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,674 posts)Tribetime
(4,715 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)fooled so that we can focus our energies on removing tRUMP and the reTHUGS from office.
Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)and counting her money.