Republicans Aid Kanye West's Bid to Get on the 2020 Ballot

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/us/politics/kanye-west-president-republicans.html

Republican activists in at least half a dozen states are deeply involved in the effort to get Kanye West’s name before voters, renewing questions about the aim of his campaign.


Kanye West held a rally last month in North Charleston, S.C.Credit...Randall Hill/Reuters

Published Aug. 4, 2020

Updated Aug. 5, 2020, 6:20 p.m. ET

By Danny Hakim and Maggie Haberman

The effort to get Kanye West on the ballot as a third-party candidate in several states is increasingly looking like an operation run by President Trump’s allies and Republican activists that is aimed at diverting votes from Joseph R. Biden Jr.

The move, which comes as Mr. West’s wife, Kim Kardashian West, has said her husband is struggling with mental illness, underscores that this will be an unusual, and unusually bare-knuckled, presidential election.

The strategy became overt on Tuesday, when Lane Ruhland, a lawyer who has worked for the Trump campaign, delivered ballot signatures to Wisconsin elections officials on behalf of the West campaign.

Ms. Ruhland worked for the state Republican Party during Wisconsin’s recount in the 2016 presidential election. She has been representing the Trump campaign in a lawsuit filed this year against a Wisconsin television station for airing an advertisement criticizing the president’s coronavirus response.

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[Thekaspervote]

1. The depths to which the repukes will stoop is on full display

[Mz Pip]

2. Despicable

Trying to take advantage of a mentally ill man.

They really are a craven bunch.

[Nikki28]

3. time

for Lincoln project to make an ad about them exposing a mentally ill man to steal an election because they can't win on their own merits.