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The rapper mounting a quixotic bid for the White House drew just 2 percent support in a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.Kanye West missed the deadline to file as a third party candidate in 10 states but has said he will rely on write-in ballots to make him competitive in states where his name is not printed on the ballot. | Lauren Petracca Ipetracca/The Post And Courier via AP
By MAYA KING and ALEX ISENSTADT
08/12/2020 06:00 AM EDT
Rapper and former Donald Trump supporter Kanye West is running for president with the backing of a handful of GOP operatives who are betting he can pull Black voters from former Vice President Joe Biden.
But Democrats arent sweating West at this point and Republicans dont view him as a boon to their cause, either. For good reason: In a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, West garnered 2 percent support overall among registered voters, 7 points behind the no opinion option. His support among African American voters is just as meager 2 percent and Bidens 9-point national lead over Trump is unmoved with or without West on the ballot.
I think a lot of people of color view Kanyes bid for the presidency as a quixotic one, and they dont see him as being legitimate for the office. Its more of yet another Kanye publicity stunt, said Ron Christie, a Black Republican strategist and former aide to Dick Cheney. "Democrats traditionally get 90-plus percent of the black vote. I think a lot of people are going to look at Kanye and just say, I dont think so.
The POLITICO/Morning Consult findings help explain why strategists from both parties said in interviews that they dont see him as a factor in the race, at least not yet. West has successfully filed paperwork as a third-party candidate in fewer than a dozen states and Republicans in battleground states such as Wisconsin and Ohio have organized to get him on the ballot.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/12/kanye-west-flops-among-black-voters-393860
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Typical republicans insulting the intelligence of voters with lame-ass schemes. Every time a dumbass gop plot blows up in their faces an angel gets its wings.
no_hypocrisy
(45,771 posts)I wouldnt be surprised if a good chunk of that % was made up of people just trolling the pollster.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)well they are voting for Trump claiming to pollsters they are voting for Kanye to help him get "traction."
Initech
(99,909 posts)It's probably best to just let it go. Kanye is a joke of a candidate and after Trump, the last thing we need.
tblue37
(64,979 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)And it's something only an idiot Trump cultist would believe.
Silent3
(15,018 posts)...would have been some of the rare black voters who'd have voted for Trump over Biden?
If it's nearly all conversion of Biden votes to Kanye votes, 2% isn't much, but it's enough to swing a tight election, and we often have very tight elections. Like the last one.
This election won't really be tight, if actual votes are counted, but cheating could make it tight. I still think Kanye is a joke and won't help Republicans in the end, but I'm not ready to completely dismiss some possible impact totally out of hand.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)that these are young white Trumpsters trolling pollsters.
Yet I completely agree 2% is not nothing.
bearsfootball516
(6,369 posts)There arent any Biden voters who are going to switch to Kanye just because Kanye entered the race. They just dont exist.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,366 posts)All they need to do is peel off 10-20,000 votes for Kanye, and suppress enough of the rest to eke out a narrow win in the Rust belt again...unless Joe and Kamala can get to a double digit lead.
Otherwise, Kanye doesnt even have to get half the votes Jill Stein did in the Rust belt.
catbyte
(34,169 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,366 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)And the GOP thought they were being clever by supporting Kanye.
Takket
(21,421 posts)The entire reason hes doing this and the GOP is helping us because hes trying to help drumpf. The writers of the article cant possibly be that naive.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)She was an AA female, and this brainiac said "some black folks aren't sure about Joe Biden, and taking a look at Kanye...."
It was proof not "every voice" needs to be heard.