Nuisance candidate Kanye West, also known as Mr. Kim Kardashian, is still gunning for the presidency of the U.S. and this week released his first campaign video - 21 days before the election Nov. 3.
West, who admits to a bipolar personality disorder, asserts God wanted him to run for president. He also calls himself an evangelical Christian.
The rapper, songwriter, business owner and multiawarded singer is running for president under his own political party named the "Birthday Party."
"God just gave me the clarity and said it's time," West said a few months ago 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."
Yeezy's first campaign video is about religion, God and Christian families at prayer.
"By turning to faith, we will be the kind of nation, the kind of people that God intends us to be," said West in the video.
The video is West's first serious attempt to be taken as a serious candidate. West, a self-declared admirer of president Donald Trump, has done practically no campaigning. He asked supporters to vote for him as a write-in candidate.
West held his first campaign rally in support of his presidential bid in North Charleston, South Carolina, in July. He has spent millions of dollars of his money on his campaign, but mostly on consulting firms that helped get his name on the ballot in a number of states.
West has spent $5.8 million on his campaign, said the Federal Election Commission. Most of the money comes from a $6.7 million loan West made to himself.
His kanye2020.country website sets out a 10-point policy platform. Among West's priorities if he was elected president: reform of policing and the justice systems, slashing student debt and restructuring the education system to better serve vulnerable people.
Yeezy, however, has admitted he's running mainly to help Trump win reelection by taking votes away from Biden. Told in an interview his candidacy will damage Biden, West replied: "I'm not denying it; I just told you."
He also admitted he's in regular contact with Trump. West could be a spoiler for Trump's reelection by siphoning-off key portions of Black votes in battleground states like Wisconsin and Ohio. Some Democrats describe West's candidacy as a conservative-backed attempt to draw away voters from Biden.
