• Elections rapper Kanye West makes his candidacy for the US presidency official

Kanye West is already an official candidate for the Presidency of the United States. The spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Board of Elections, Misha Mohr, has confirmed that the rapper, 'celebrity' and businessman has completed the legal procedures and paid the $ 35,000 (30,600 euros) necessary to register as an independent candidate in that territory. Steve Kramer, a political consultant who has mostly worked with Democratic candidates, has confirmed to New York magazine that West wants to run in South Carolina and Florida as well .

And, according to the gossip portal 'TMZ' - which, thanks to West, has become the nucleus of American political life at the level of 'Politico' or 'Axios' - the singer performed what is known as the' Declaration of Organization '(Statement of Organization'), a step by virtue of which his candidacy, structured around the Kanye2020 group , is able to raise funds and spend resources to promote his assault on the Presidency.

Oklahoma is only one of the 50 states that make up the United States. And there the elections could be suspended without problems, but we already know what is going to happen: Donald Trump is going to be reelected. The same is true of South Carolina. Florida, however, is something else. It is the fourth most populous state in the country, and, although its electorate has been gradually moving towards the Republican side in the last two decades, it is still one of the territories that can decide the elections, as it already happened in 2000.

If West shows up there, it can have considerable electoral impact , even if he gets few votes. An impact, in addition, that would be favorable to Donald Trump, given that the rapper's voters would be fundamentally young and African-American, two groups that support the Democratic Party. In 2016, 58% of young people voted for Hillary Clinton, compared to 28% for Trump, according to a poll by the Pew Center for Public Opinion Studies. The Democratic candidate also took 94% of the black vote. Polls indicate that by 2020 Biden will increase those percentages. If Kanye West doesn't stop it, of course.

The entry into the campaign of the rapper, 'celebrity' and businessman has added a touch of gruesome uncertainty to an electoral campaign marked by a 'provocateur-in-chief' -Trump- against an opposition candidate who simply does not appear in public -Joe Biden- with the scenario of almost 140,000 deaths from the coronavirus and an official mortality rate in relation to the population that is already the seventh highest in the world, after Belgium, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Sweden and France. Just at the moment when the United States Congress is debating the legalization of hallucinogenic mushrooms in the capital, Washington, the possibility that West not only appears, but has some influence on the result, indicates that reality is beyond , always, to fiction. Improving the present, the singer, 43, has admitted that he has not voted even once , although in the last three years he and Kardashian have been in the White House with Trump, whom he backed in the 2018 legislative elections in which the president's party suffered a defeat of historical proportions.

What does West intend with all this? 'TMZ' has revealed that the hip hop star suffers from bipolar disorder, and that among his family - headed by his wife, the mother of all celebrities , Kim Kardashian - there is concern that his entry into public affairs has something to do with it. with that disease. Because, in addition, the United States is a federal country, and to register as a candidate for the presidency, you must do it throughout the country. For now, West is late for several of the most populous states, such as California, Texas, New York and Illinois. Even in the case of Florida, it is likely that you have not been able to gather the 132,781 resident signatures necessary to complete your registration as a candidate.

Trump, the reality TV star

That, however, does not mean that West is joking. Perhaps the best analysis of his strategy has been given by another reality TV star famous for his controversies and, until the entry into the campaign of the rapper, political ally: Donald Trump. "It can be a kind of test to see what can happen in four years," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on July 7. If anyone knows about it, it is the president himself, who spent three decades considering a presidential campaign as a Democratic, libertarian and, finally, Republican candidate, until he made the leap in 2016 and, to everyone's surprise - including, according to his relatives, of himself- he won.

The singer has given an interview in this regard to the venerable financial information magazine 'Forbes', in which he has explained what his model of government would be. West is not influenced by Weber, Montesquieu, Hobbes, or Locke, but by Wakanda, the protagonist of the Hollywood movie 'Black Panther'. Someone who, for his voters, is much closer than the entire string of philosophers cited above.

" I am going to use the Wakanda framework as an explanation of what our designs are going to be in the White House . It is a clear idea: you have Kanye West, who is one of the most powerful men that exists. I will not say the most powerful because there are a ton of extraterrestrial superpowers that you can only collectively unleash.But let's go back to Wakanda. Like Wakanda in the movie when the king comes to visit her and this makes the scientists wrap the shoes around the feet. Imagine how much innovation we can have, in things like medicine, "West explains to 'Forbes.'

After such an explanation, it is clear that Orwell's '1984' dystopia, or Huxley's 'A Happy World', were much more serious than what 2020 has brought us.

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