Admitting his doomed campaign for president of the United States is only meant to help his friend, Donald Trump, win reelection, rapper Kanye West keeps spending millions of his own money on his comical campaign.
Yeezus, who once called himself the "Black Zac Efron," launched his run at the presidency this July and has spent millions of dollars on his campaign, but mostly on consulting firms that helped him get his name on the ballot in a number of states.
He said he's spent $6.76 million so far. Of this total, $5.45 million went to three firms: Millennial Strategies LLC, Fortified Consulting and Atlas Strategy Group LLC. These Republican-controlled firms helped get West's name on the ballot in the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Vermont.
Political analysts agree that having his name on the ballot in only 11 out of 50 states, excluding the Washington D.C., makes West nothing more than a nuisance candidate. West, however, might damage Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden by siphoning votes away from Biden in states were voting will become neck-and-neck.
Yeezy has admitted he's running to help Trump win reelection by taking votes away from Biden. Told in an interview his run will potentially damage Biden, West replied: "I'm not denying it; I just told you." He also admitted he's in regular contact with Trump.
West, who admits to a bipolar personality disorder, previously said God wanted him to run for president. He also calls himself an evangelical Christian.
"God just gave me the clarity and said it's time," West said in justifying his decision to run for president.
"You know I was out there, ended up in the hospital, people were calling me crazy," he previously insisted when asked why he was doing this. "I'm not crazy."
CNN Senior Political Analyst and anchor John Avalon said West can't win the election because he's missed too many deadlines to get on the ballot in too many states.
West, however, could be a spoiler for Trump's reelection by siphoning off key portions of the Black vote in select states like Wisconsin and Ohio. Avalon described West's candidacy as a conservative-backed attempt to draw away voters from Biden. West's run also aims to lure in enough "useful idiots" to make it worthwhile.
Avalon said every vote for West is a vote for Trump. West's candidacy is part of a larger GOP plan to divide the Democrats and win Trump reelection.
