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Kanye West fails to get 0.5% of the vote in any state
    2020-11-06  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

REMEMBER when Kanye West ran for president? The rapper appeared to concede Wednesday morning after failing to make a splash in the 2020 election — but his White House ambitions may not be over.

In a now-deleted tweet, West wrote, “WELP KANYE 2024.” He also tweeted a photo of himself smiling in front of an electoral map.

West, who ran as an independent, only managed to make the ballot in a handful of states. According to the Associated Press, he received around 60,000 votes. None of the returns from the states in which he was eligible had him reaching even 0.5 percent of the vote. Of the dozen states in which he was a contender, West got the most votes in Tennessee, getting the approval of 10,216, with 97 percent of the state’s returns on Wednesday morning. But that only amounted to 0.3 percent of the state’s total, and was only about a third of the votes cast for another third-party contender, Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen.

On Tuesday, West had also shared photos of himself voting in Wyoming, writing his name in one of the states where he didn’t make the ballot. He declared it was his first time voting and made it clear what it had taken to get him to overcome his previous voting reticence.

“Today I voted for the first time in my life for the President of the United States, and it’s for someone I truly trust ... me,” he tweeted.

West did appear on the ballot in a 13th state, California, but there, he was listed as the vice presidential pick of Roque De La Fuente. It was unclear whether West approved of being named as a vice presidential contender by that candidate, who won 0.3 percent of the Golden State’s vote.

Unlike his competitors in the presidential race, West had not stooped to making actual campaign appearances.(SD-Agencies)

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