said in a tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe presidential run is Ye’s second. During his first, in 2020, he qualified for ballot access in just 12 states, unsuccessfully sued for access to five more, gave up on four and missed registration deadlines on a further 29.<\/p>\n
He held one highly emotional rally in South Carolina in which he spoke of his anti-abortion views, funded two television ads and ultimately picked up just 70,000 votes across the entire US.<\/p>\n
Ye’s announcement of a second run for the White House was made with a video of his campaign logo to social media captioned \u201cYe24\u201d. In it, he claimed to have asked Donald Trump to be his running mate, a suggestion that had \u201cmost perturbed\u201d the former president.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing that Trump was most perturbed about [is] me asking him to be my vice-president,\u201d Kanye said in a video posted on his recently unlocked Twitter account. \u201cI think that was, like, lower on the list of things that caught him off-guard.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the fact that I walked in with intelligence,\u201d Ye added.<\/p>\n
In the \u201cYe24\u201d Twitter post, the rapper said he’d he advised Trump to \u201cgo and get these people that the media tried to cancel\u201d, with flashes of Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Roger Stone and InfoWars conspiracist Alex Jones.<\/p>\n
Several days ago, Ye was seen in the company of white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club and home. In the subsequent video, titled \u201cMar-A-Lago Debrief<\/a>\u201d, Ye said Trump \u201cstarted basically screaming at me at the table, telling me I’m going to lose. Has that ever worked for anyone in history? I’m like, ‘Wait, hold on Trump, you’re talking to Ye.’\u201d<\/p>\nFuentes is well known for virulent antisemitic opinions of his own, and started a white nationalist organization called America First Foundation. The Department of Justice has called him a white supremacist and he has been banned from multiple social media platforms.<\/p>\n
In the video Ye sand Fuentes’s praises and called him a \u201cloyalist\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ye also recently told the far-right British commentator Milo Yiannopoulos that he was \u201cworking on the campaign\u201d, which Yiannopoulos said he took that to be a campaign announcement. On Thursday, Ye indicated that he had enlisted Yiannopoulos as his 2024 campaign manager.<\/p>\n
Yiannopoulos has a long history of antisemitism, too, including donating $14.88 to a Jewish journalist, a figure that references the so-called \u201c14 Words\u201d white supremacist manifesto and 88, used by neo-Nazis as shorthand for \u201cHeil Hitler\u201d because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n