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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 Wests 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 Trumps allies and Republican activists that is aimed at diverting votes from Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The move, which comes as Mr. Wests 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 Wisconsins 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 presidents coronavirus response.
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Republican activists in at least half a dozen states are deeply involved in the effort to get Kanye Wests 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 Trumps allies and Republican activists that is aimed at diverting votes from Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The move, which comes as Mr. Wests 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 Wisconsins 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 presidents coronavirus response.
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Republicans Aid Kanye West's Bid to Get on the 2020 Ballot (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Aug 2020
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Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)1. The depths to which the repukes will stoop is on full display
Mz Pip
(27,453 posts)2. Despicable
Trying to take advantage of a mentally ill man.
They really are a craven bunch.
Nikki28
(557 posts)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.