The rapper is making a late offer for president.
Kanye West is starting the campaign.
Exactly two weeks after announcing his unlikely presidential bid, the rapper announced on Saturday night that he will hold his campaign’s first event in South Carolina on Sunday at 5 p.m.
The event will take place at the Exquis Event Center in North Charleston, according to a statement. It is “for registered guests only”.
Those wishing to attend will need to register on West’s new campaign site, kanye2020.country, although the site doesn’t appear to have a specific link to register for the event yet.
According to a copy of the statement shared with ABC News, all attendees will be asked to sign a COVID-19 Liability Disclosure Form, Social Distance and to wear a mask. West will also hold a press event prior to the rally.
Earlier in the day, West had tweeted that he was seeking to acquire signatures to enter the ballot in the state.
“Hi guys, sign up to put me on the ballot in South Carolina at any of these places,” he wrote, sharing a list of places. “You can also register on the kanye2020.country website.”
It is not entirely clear how West would qualify, as the South Carolina deadline to submit signatures as an independent candidate was July 15. The state does not allow written candidates.
West hit the ballot in his first state earlier this week in Oklahoma. The state allows independent candidates to pay a $ 35,000 fee, a small change for the rapper and businessman, which Forbes says is worth just over $ 1 billion, to enter the November ballot.
Time is running out for the West in many states. It needs 270 electoral votes to win, and there are only 306 electoral votes left between the states, plus Washington, DC, where filing deadlines have yet to pass.
If you don’t get all the ballots for the five states with a deadline of August 3, the reality is that you cannot physically win on Election Day.
But reality has not stopped the West in the past.
ABC News’ Quinn Scanlan contributed to this report.
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