Co-founder of Students for Trump: Kanye West "is a trojan horse into the Democrat voting bloc"

[highplainsdem]

This was obvious to most people as soon as Kanye announced he was running for president.

But I was surprised to see a Trump supporter this well known admit that Kanye is simply working for Trump here. And there are a few replies saying "shhh."

Link to tweet

[Nevilledog]

1. Anybody willing to vote for Kanye over Biden has lost their mind.

[Beartracks]

2. Wait. So... because Kanye is black, he's supposed to confuse the black voting bloc...

... of the Democratic party into voting for him?



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[Drunken Irishman]

6. No. But it doesn't take a lot of votes to change the election...

And it's not just black voters. It's younger voters, who are just as important. A lot may vote for him just to vote for him.

This absolutely would hurt Biden if it was legit. But I suspect it's not.

[Captain Zero]

25. Especially if you switch them inside the tabulators with SOFTWARE HACKS

Calling Vladimir Putin

[JonLP24]

48. I just don't see him taking that many votes from the left

Kanye West is more popular with Trump's base than ours.

[Drunken Irishman]

52. I think there's a segment of voters who don't like Trump and don't like Biden.

They're typically younger, liberal people who voted Stein in 2016 and will happily vote Kanye in 2020.

Whether there's enough of them to tilt the race remains to be seen.

[writes3000]

7. Yes! Isn't it hilarious?

[betsuni]

12. Right?

Plus, everybody knows he's bi-polar and doesn't always take his meds. It's ridiculous.

[sheshe2]

14. Bro's.

Anyone but Hill...I mean Biden.

[pnwmom]

33. He only needs to peel off a couple percent to pull a Jill Stein.

And he could do it with young voters -- not just Black voters.

[Takket]

3. yeah that is pretty obvious......

why would a huge drumpf supporter, who happens to be black, be running against drumpf, unless they think he will siphon off the black vote from Biden?

[BlueIdaho]

4. Kanye West is significantly mentally disabled

So of course republicans would flock to him as a fellow traveler.

[fleur-de-lisa]

19. Could he get his shit together in time

to get on the ballot in enough states to make a difference?

Seems he is too much of a mess to actually get it done in time.

I don’t see how he could make a difference just as a write in candidate.

[BlueIdaho]

22. Like many bipolar individuals

He’s riding a wave of magical thinking right now where anything is possible. Possible? Maybe. Probable - absolutely not.

[GoneOffShore]

32. Well, if his DIY Home Lobotomy Kit gets delivered on time, he might get it together.

If he ordered the Family Size, he and Kim can have matching scars.

Though the custom made ones with the platinum handles take longer to get. They do throw in an ECT machine with those.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

43. This is abelist.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. I don't think too many of Trump's Neo-Nazi & Evangelical types would vote for Kanye.

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And we all know he wouldn't do anything to upset or hurt Trump.

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[writes3000]

8. No, dumb young black people who were going to vote for Biden are going switch...

That’s how the racist, feeble minded Trump campaign thinks.

[pnwmom]

35. Dumb young white and brown people too. It's not the race, it's the dumbness factor. n/t

[safeinOhio]

24. Just get David Duke to run Indi.

That'd take away that many from his base.

[Cha]

9. Yeah.. "shhh".. like we couldn't figure it out.

[gratuitous]

10. I'm getting a distinct whiff of desperation

Sort of like when McCain chose Princess Dumbass of the North Woods as his running mate in 2008, hoping to attract disaffected Democrats who wanted Hillary Clinton to be the nominee. Remember the PUMA (Party Unity My Ass) movement that was supposed to bring a whole bunch of former Democrats into the Republican fold? It, uh, didn't work then.

This is what Republicans are reduced to: Gimmickry that fools their slack-jawed voters.

[no_hypocrisy]

38. But the appeal to voters who are attracted to celebrities running for office is real.

In 2008, my friend (a middle-aged white Christian woman) practically gushed at the prospect of electing Sarah Palin. She even said that "She looks like she would be fun." And that was all the criterium needed to get her vote.

Now, taking the above example and developing it, a Kanye West candidacy would have a similar effect: voting for him would be like more American Idol than the presidency. It would be "fun." The voters whom he would attract would be steered from voting Trump out of office to the magical thinking of how cool this country would be to have Kanye in the WH. Every day would be a party.

[TlalocW]

11. If it's true that he's running as a spoiler, this is the Sarah Palin strategy

She was chosen as McCain's veep because surely all the democratic women upset that Obama got the nomination over Hillary just want a woman to vote for because surely the li'l dumplings don't have actual nuanced, well-thought out political philosophies. THEY'RE WOMEN! C'MON!

If he is a spoiler, they're thinking, "Oh, Black people! They just want to vote for one of their own! They don't have well-thought out political philosophies!" Etc.

TlalocW

[brush]

13. A momentary blip on the radar. How's he even going to get on ballots?

Guess his running mate is Candace Owen's, another self-hating fool.

Black people are pragmatic voters, and neither one of those fools is it.

[fleur-de-lisa]

21. He could get on some state ballots

but he would have to make some significant moves within the next month.

I don’t see that happening. He’s a mess.

[pnwmom]

36. Jill Stein only needed 2% of the vote to swing the election. And Elon has plenty of money

to take care of whatever paperwork is necessary to get West on as many ballots as possible. And there's always the write-in option.

[brush]

46. Black people know west is crazy. This isn't 2016. It won't be...

that close because trump is running on his horrendous record, not against Hillary. Many more whites will vote against his blundering.

He's behind in the battleground states and with four months to go, he's won't get any better. The man is has too many moments of incoherence for a majority of voters to have confidence in his ability to hold it together four more years, especially since the evidence is right before our eyes that he's coming apart right now.

[pnwmom]

47. I'm thinking of dumb young people, mostly. The kind that helped Jill Stein win. n/t

[brush]

49. Maybe, but we saw tens of thousands of young people protesting...

in the George Floyd demonstrations. Many will vote, probably for the first time. A few of them might vote for west but IMO most will vote against Biden to defeat the orange turd trump.

And those will be votes that weren't there in 2016.

[JonLP24]

51. I think Jill Stein actually stands for policy positions like M4A or Green New Deal

I know Howie Hawkins does but I'm not voting for him. There doesn't seem to be a lot of excitement for him among progressives seems to be because he isn't very charismatic & because of things he said regarding "Russiagate". I don't know what he said but he probably told the truth which isn't good for those that deny Russia interference. They also don't like that Bernie Sanders told the truth regarding Russia.

I don't think you have to worry about Kanye or the Green Party candidate this year.

[JDC]

15. Kanye is not running for President. He is seeking PR

[BGBD]

20. He's got an album coming out next week...

This is EXACTLY the same as when Kid Rock told people on Twitter he was running for Senate in Michigan.......did that happen?

[Initech]

16. We already figured that one out, numb nuts.

[PTWB]

17. I hope Romney runs as a write in.

Just to siphon some votes.

[Drunken Irishman]

26. Why? Most those who would write-in Romney would vote Biden instead.

[pnwmom]

34. Romney would also siphon votes from Biden. Otherwise, the moderate R's who are left

might vote for Biden.

[JonLP24]

50. You're correct

Romney is actually more popular with Democrats than Republicans.

[C_U_L8R]

18. Trump thinks his one black friend has magical political powers.

Sorry Donald, that's a lame racist ploy. You really are that stupid and desperate.

[dawg day]

23. No one is going to vote for Kanye

He's as loomy as Trump.

[orleans]

28. " No one is going to vote for Kanye" ... except his fans n/t

[dawg day]

42. His fans probably know better than I

That he's not really serious... of course, seriousness and capabilities didn't matter to Trump's voters.

I doubt people who vote for the lulz would vote for Biden though.

[Captain Zero]

29. of course not, just the hackers in Russia will hack some of Bidens into Kanyes column

Electrical College does the rest.

[Sunsky]

31. If that's the case

We have a Russia problem and not a Kanye problem. Therefore, whether Kanye runs or not is insignificant, we need to secure our elections because 2020 will be like 2016.

[Sunsky]

30. Exactly

African Americans are not dumb. We have seen what voting third party or staying home did in 2016. As I've written before, we'll walk over hot coal to vote for Biden and get Trump out of office. This stunt is sanctioned by team Trump. They're so obviously desperate and not thinking straight because if Kanye runs, he will take votes from Trump.

[orleans]

27. the tweet was taken down. n/t

[helpisontheway]

37. Guess Kim found out and made his dumb @ss delete it

No way in hel could I be quarantined with that fool.

[Celerity]

40. The tweet was not from Kanye. NT

[highplainsdem]

44. Interesting. I'd guess other Trump supporters, maybe even campaign staff, comvinced him it was

a stupid thing to tweet if they're hoping Dems will fall for that "Trojan horse."

[mnmoderatedem]

39. to quote president Obama

"he's a jackass"

[whistler162]

41. More like this years Pat Paulsen

[EleanorR]

45. Trump is polling so poorly they need an excuse for his win other than russia helped steal it

They used Stein in 2016 and this time it will be Kanye.