GOP Operatives Who Ran Kanye West's Presidential Campaign Were Trying Re-Elect Trump
Kanye West may have run a failed bid for the 2020 presidency as a third party candidate, but we're still learning more about his quest for the White House. Recently, it's been revealed that many of the people inside his campaign were GOP operatives hoping to re-elect Donald Trump.
According to an investigation by The Daily Beast, federal documents reviewed by the news outlet reveal that Yeezy received millions of dollars in services from Republican insiders. The documents also show some of the services were not properly disclosed.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a government watchdog group, reviewed hundreds of court documents tied to West's campaign and told The Daily Beast that the campaign’s filings were a “disaster.”
"It's very clear that the whole point behind Kanye's campaign was to try to re-elect Donald Trump," Jordan Libowitz, the organization's communications director, told the news website. "Whether that was a goal of Kanye is another issue. But he was clearly seen as a way to steal potential votes from Biden."
Despite being an avid supporter of Trump’s presidency, West announced he was running for president in July 2020. While the rapper held several campaign events, he missed the deadline to register to appear as a candidate on ballots in a number of states. In the end, he received about 60,000 votes out of an estimated total of 160 million.
