Kanye West appeared to concede in the 2020 presidential election, tweeting a simple statement at the end of the night: “WELP KANYE 2024.”
- This would suggest Kanye West plans to run in 2024.
- West deleted the original tweet and reposted it without the “WELP” but said “KANYE 2024.”
KANYE 2024 pic.twitter.com/Zm2pKcn12t
— ye (@kanyewest) November 4, 2020
Did Kanye West get any votes?
West accrued over 60,000 total votes in the 2020 election as of 6:30 a.m. MST. He never went above 0.5% in any state where he was on the ballot, according to Variety.
- West had the most votes in Tennessee, where he won 10,216 votes (good for 0.3% of the state’s total).
- In Utah, Kanye West had about 0.4% of the vote when election results first came through, as I tweeted Tuesday night.