If he intends to go through with this, at least to be eligible at all in my small state, he needs to have already registered as whatever party he intends to run as or an independent. So if he's a registered Republican or Democrat right now, it's out and he can't run here.
If he intends to run as an independent, he needs 5,000 signatures. He has to collect those signatures and turn them into the state, with all of the necessary paperwork and fees, in around 60 days.
Multiply these arcane rules by 50 and assume some states aren't as generous with filing deadlines.
... Do you think he even knew all this before he started talking about it?
Kanye is seriously going to take like 3.5 million votes from Biden and feed probably another million to Trump on top of that.
If he goes through with this that is
If he intends to go through with this, at least to be eligible at all in my small state, he needs to have already registered as whatever party he intends to run as or an independent. So if he's a registered Republican or Democrat right now, it's out and he can't run here.
If he intends to run as an independent, he needs 5,000 signatures. He has to collect those signatures and turn them into the state, with all of the necessary paperwork and fees, in around 60 days.
Multiply these arcane rules by 50 and assume some states aren't as generous with filing deadlines.
... Do you think he even knew all this before he started talking about it?
He's apparently running a "write in" campaign to bypass all that jazz