Last month rapper Kanye West announced he was running for president of the United States under the newly formed 'Birthday Party [click here if you missed that].'
While Kanye may be the "Birthday Party" candidate he's being propped up by Republicans...
From The Daily Mail
At least four Republicans have been revealed to be playing an active role in helping to aid Kanye West’s 2020 presidential bid, as the rapper made the deadline to file as an independent candidate in Wisconsin on Tuesday.
West’s ties to the individuals has raised questions about the intentions of his White House bid and whether the campaign is a GOP-orchestrated ruse to help siphon votes from Joe Biden in vital swing-states to benefit President Trump.
Petitioning company Let The Voters Decide, which is headed by Mark Jacoby, has been helping the Grammy-winning artist secure signatures to run in three states: Ohio, West Virginia and Arkansas. Jacoby was arrested on charges of voter fraud in 2008 while working for the Republican Party in California.
West’s nominating petitions were dropped off with state regulators in Madison by Lane Ruhland before Tuesday’s 5pm deadline. Ruhland, a top Republican lawyer and former general counsel for the state GOP, was filmed dropping off the signatures.
Gregg Keller, the former executive director of the American Conservative Union, has been listed as a contact for West’s campaign in Arkansas. Keller, a Missouri-based strategist, was previously under consideration to become Donald Trump’s campaign manager in 2015, but lost out to Corey Lewandowski, the New York Times reported.
The fourth person with partisan ties linked to the West campaign is Chuck Wilton, from Vermont, who is listed as a convention delegate for Trump and as an elector with the West bid, who could potentially cast an Electoral College vote for the rapper if he were to win the state. Wilton’s wife, Wendy, is a Trump appointee at the United States Department of Agriculture.
