Whereas a herd of GOP candidates are attempting to beat seemingly insurmountable odds to unseat Donald Trump because the Republican who will tackle President Joe Biden in subsequent 12 months’s election, there may be now at the least one no-chance marketing campaign you possibly can scratch off the record.
Kanye West‘s private legal professional, Bruce Marks, advised Rolling Stone on Thursday (Oct. 19) that the rapper who now goes by simply Ye is not going to throw his hat within the ring a second time. “He’s not a candidate for workplace in 2024,” stated Marks, who’s reportedly engaged on winding down the rapper’s marketing campaign, seemingly earlier than it even received began.
An October Federal Election Fee submitting by Ye’s Kanye 2020 political committee confirmed that the marketing campaign had allotted zero {dollars} for main expenditures in all 50 states and U.S. territories in the latest reporting interval from January to September of this 12 months; it additionally appeared to point out that the marketing campaign raised zero {dollars} in the latest reporting interval and had lower than $25,000 cash-on-hand.
At press time Marks had not returned Billboard‘s request for touch upon the winding-down of Ye’s presidential bid.
West’s as soon as formidable music and style profession melted down final 12 months after the rapper went on a hateful string of antisemitic rants. He has saved a low profile since then and the information of his halted second bid for the White Home isn’t a surprise giving the anemic exhibiting of his first run.
Ye introduced the launch of his long-shot presidential marketing campaign underneath the “Birthday Get together” banner on July 4, 2020, so late within the sport that he managed to get on the poll in simply 12 states. With just one marketing campaign look and two eleventh hour video advertisements, regardless of what might have been a significant popular culture megaphone and built-in viewers of thousands and thousands, West’s vote totals within the election between one-term president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden resulted in a grand whole of 60,000 votes after the rapper reportedly pumped $9 million of his personal cash into the failed bid.
The latest Ye presidential marketing campaign received off to a rocky begin in Might when British right-wing political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos proclaimed that he was the “director of political operations” for the “YE24” marketing campaign; RS reported that Yiannopoulos — whom the Anti Defamation League has dubbed a “misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, transphobic troll” — is now not on Ye’s political payroll. The journal additionally reported that there have been severe questions raised earlier this 12 months about whether or not it was even authorized to rent a international nationwide to work in a decision-making position in an American political marketing campaign.
An unnamed supply additionally reportedly advised the journal that the unpredictable MC might change him thoughts, however that “there’s no plan to try this… there’s no marketing campaign construction or something alongside these strains in place,” dubbing possibilities of a doable reboot of the marketing campaign as “past distant.”
At press time it didn’t seem as if Ye had commented on the report about his reportedly scotched bid.
