Kanye West Tweets he is running for president
DETROIT In a Tweet Saturday rapper and entrepreneur Kanye West announced he is running for president. I am running for president of the United States! the Tweet read using a US flag emoji and the hashtag #2020Vision. Currently the White House race is between his friend Republican President Donald Trump and former vice president and Democrat Joe Biden. West, 43, would have to run as an Independent and get enough signatures to appear on the November ballot. Since the deadline to register as an Independent in those has passed West would have be a write-in candidate.