US election 2020: The election campaign is entering the hot phase. Does Donald Trump benefit now because of Kanye West? There is excitement about an “illegal” meeting.
- On November 3, 2020, Donald Trump * wants to defend his office as US President.
- However, he gets a lot of competition from Democrat Joe Biden .
- Rapper Kanye West is also involved - now there is a fuss about a meeting with Trump daughter Ivanka .
Colorado - US election campaign time . 82 days before the 59th presidential election in the United States , the political situation in the country remains uncertain. Donald Trump has recently come under increasing criticism because of his corona crisis management and his statements after the death of George Floyd * - this is also reflected in the polls. His opponent, the Democrat Joe Biden , also made a mistake, but according to current opinion polls it ranks ahead of Trump. So the President and his campaign team are challenged to get the curve. In this context, a meeting with Kanye West caused a stir.
The rapper surprisingly announced his presidential candidacy in early July after speaking out in public for Trump in 2016. The son of African American parents does not have realistic chances of victory, but he simply competes in too few constituencies. But it could still be decisive for the election outcome.
The first campaign appearances are underway. In North Charleston, the rapper first appeared as a presidential candidate on July 19.
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2020 US election: this is how Republicans want to benefit from Kanye West
According to the Washington Post, the 43-year-old competes in ten states - including the swing states Ohio and Wisconsin . These particularly competitive states can traditionally tip the scales. While the Republicans can plan firmly with a victory in conservative Texas and the Democrats almost certainly win in California , the outcome in these states is more open. The Republicans are now hoping to a certain extent in Kanye West , whom unspecified Trump representatives are said to have supported in submitting the petitions. With calculation. Because as a dark-skinned candidate West would , so the hope of the Grand Old Party , intercept Biden's planned voices of the Afro-American population and claim them for themselves. Because the rapper has no chance anyway, Trump would be the big beneficiary.
2020 US election: Whirling around meetings - Kanye West with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
Kanye West recently distanced himself from Donald Trump *, so it is actually hard to imagine that he would somehow work with the president. But now an unusual meeting in Colorado caused a stir: Kanye West together with Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner . So the rapper met with the president's daughter and son-in-law, both of whom are also key leaders in the campaign team. As a "Senior Advisor", Kushner also has a number of special roles and is considered the most important advisor to the President.
Meanwhile, they have more and more to say: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are campaigning for the re-election of Donald Trump.
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After the York Times revealed the meeting, Kanye West indirectly confirmed it on Twitter. The rapper wrote that they found out about Dr. Claude Anderson's book “Powernomics” discusses that advocating empowerment for African American Americans. He did not provide any further information, but offered to speak to the NY Times about it.
I'm willing to do a live interview with the New York Time about my meeting with Jared where we discussed Dr Claude Anderson's book Powernomics
- ye (@kanyewest) August 12, 2020US election 2020: Meeting irritated - "that strongly suggests illegality"
After that, a little debate burned out in the USA. Was it all right with the meeting? The judiciary is putting pressure - especially Trump opponent George Conway . The lawyer is considered to be one of the greatest supporters of Donald Trump's imposition. Curiously, he is married to Kellyanne Conway , who in turn is an adviser to the President. Nonetheless, he ca n't really get anything positive from Trump and is now railing again against the 74-year-old.
Conway wrote on Twitter : "Given the timing and role of Jared in the re-election campaign, this strongly suggests illegality, provided that Jared was interested in something other than Kanye's next album." Collaboration between campaigns is prohibited before the US election . Above all Kushner , but also Ivanka Trump , is decisively involved in Donald Trump's re-election campaign .
Given the timing, and given Jared's role with the re-election campaign, this is strongly suggestive of illegality, assuming that Jared was interested in something other than Kanye's next album. https://t.co/tXQJJ13Av7
- George Conway (@ gtconway3d) August 12, 2020The meeting cannot be finally cleared up. A little gadget remains - and the US election campaign has another chapter. (as) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network
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