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NEW YORK: The United States was on the razor’s edge on Wednesday (Nov. 4) awaiting election results, but the fate of a candidate was clear: Artist Kanye West will not win the 2020 presidential race, but he still has future aspirations.
The fickle rapper, who decided to run for the highest office in the nation late in the game as an independent candidate under the Birthday Party, received around 60,000 votes from the 12 states where he made it onto the ballot.
Their numbers were less than a pin drop in a very slim presidential race, with Democrat Joe Biden having the slightest lead over Republican President Donald Trump as many ballots were still being counted in key states.
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The hip hop star and fashion designer saw his highest numbers in Tennessee, where some 10,000 people voted for West, according to The New York Times.
The mogul who once voiced fervent support for Donald Trump made a social media show of casting his own vote in Wyoming, saying it was the first in his history.
West registered on the ballot in the western state, where he did not qualify to have his name on the ballot.
According to the image that the rapper published from his ballot, he did not participate in any of the Congressional or local races.
A California ballot for the 2020 US presidential election that includes American rapper Kanye West as a running mate for the vice presidency of Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente Guerra for the American Independent Party, in Los Angeles, 6 October 2020 (Photo: AFP / Chris). Delmas)
“God is so good,” tweeted the superstar, who took a public turn on Christianity in recent years.
“Today I am voting for the first time in my life for the president of the United States, and it is for someone I really trust … me.
He later appeared to acknowledge defeat while hinting at a future career, tweeting: “KANYE 2024.”
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Big Brooklyn, a 31-year-old rapper and music producer, told AFP in Times Square that he had voted for West, saying who becomes president is less important than committing to pressuring the future leader to listen.
“It’s like everyone is distracted by who is going to win,” he said.
“It doesn’t really matter who is going to win if we have a plan to present to that president what we should have done.”
But more broadly, the campaign by Kim Kardashian’s husband, who suffers from bipolar disorder, raised more questions than enthusiasm.
West broke ranks long ago with most of the left-wing entertainment industry to voice his support for Trump.
In 2018, they met in the Oval Office, a surreal tete-a-tete that included a hug from the rapper and a spiel in front of the camera.
But in 2019 he said that his support for Trump had been a way of criticizing Democrats.
