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Kanye West, 43, appeared on the ballots as a candidate for the birthday party: ‘Because when we win, it will be everyone’s birthday party’
We have been waiting for days to find out who will assume the presidency of the United States in 2021, but it is already possible to know who surely will not be: rapper Kanye West.
The 43-year-old musician, affiliated with his Birthday Party (something like “Party” or “Birthday party”, since the word “party” in English refers to “party” and also “party”), received only 60 thousand votes out of an estimated 160 million.
Another independent candidate, not affiliated with the two main parties, Democrat and Republican, performed much better: Jo Jorgensen had an estimated 1.5 million votes.
But West’s political career may not end there. This week, he wrote on Twitter: “Kanye 2024.”
In his first presidential bid, West appeared on the ballot in 12 states, staying out of the rest because he missed registration deadlines. The majority of his votes came from Tennessee (10,188 votes), a state that normally elects Republican candidates.
When he announced his candidacy in July, the rapper said his campaign was based on Wakanda, the fictional kingdom of Black Panther.
Ending police violence was a priority, he told Forbes magazine, as was eliminating chemicals “from our deodorants, toothpaste.” West declared that he also intended to protect America with our “great armed forces.”
And why a party called “Birthday Party”?
“Because when we win, it will be everyone’s birthday party,” he explained.
Criticism of the ‘deviation’ of ‘legitimate’ votes
But West’s candidacy has been the subject of much criticism and expressions of concern for his health.
At a rally in Charleston, South Carolina, where the campaign was launched, the rapper made several puzzling speeches. When talking about the abortion, he began to cry, saying that his parents almost aborted him and that he even thought about aborting their daughter.
Last year, the rapper revealed that he has bipolar disorder and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, asked on social media during the “compassion and empathy” campaign with West, whose “words sometimes don’t align with his intentions.”
His posts on Twitter also received critical responses that his candidacy was actually diverting votes from legitimate candidates.
Jorgensen, on the other hand, ran a more conventional independent campaign, staged rallies across the country, and spread libertarian principles: lean government and individual freedom.
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Jorgensen was the first woman candidate for the Libertarian Party
The 63-year-old psychology professor was the first libertarian woman to be nominated for a presidential candidacy and had the second-highest number of votes for a libertarian candidate in history, according to the Associated Press.
“The vote base of the Libertarian Party will continue to grow,” Jorgensen, a professor at Clemson University, said in a statement.
This party was formed in the United States in the 1970s, but none of its candidates made it to the White House.
Behind Jorgensen, another independent candidate, Howie Hawkins of the Green Party, received 339,000 votes across the country.
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