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What would Kanye West have to do to launch a late White House bid?

What would Kanye West have to do to launch a late White House bid?

肯伊·韋斯特要做些什麼才能推出晚白宮出價?
Reuters ·  2020/07/05 18:44

By Jason Lange

由傑森·蘭格

WASHINGTON, July 5 (Reuters) - If Kanye West is serious about running for president, the American rapper and fashion designer will face major obstacles to mount a serious campaign less than four months before the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election.

華盛頓,7 月 5 日(路透社)-如果 Kanye West 認真想競選總統,這位美國說唱歌手和時裝設計師將面臨重大障礙,在 11 月 3 日美國總統大選前不到四個月進行嚴重的競選活動。

West, who said in a July 4 Twitter post that he was running, would have to work fast to get his name on the ballot alongside President Donald Trump, a Republican, and the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.

西,誰在 7 月 4 日說 推特 他正在跑步的帖子,將不得不快速努力,以便在所有 50 個州以及哥倫比亞特區的共和黨人唐納德·特朗普總統和推定民主黨提名人喬·拜登(Joe Biden)一起在選票上找到他的名字。

One of Trump's celebrity supporters, West would have two routes to doing so. He could try secure the backing of a smaller political party, said James McCann, a political scientist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

作為特朗普的名人支持者之一,韋斯特將有兩條路線可以這樣做。印第安納州西拉斐特市普渡大學的政治學家詹姆斯·麥肯(James McCann)說,他可以嘗試獲得較小政黨的支持。

Without a party helping him get on the ballot, another option would be to try to appear as an independent candidate.

如果沒有一方幫助他上選票, 另一種選擇將是試圖出現作為一個獨立的候選人.

But deadlines for registering that way have already passed in a handful of states, including New Mexico and key battleground North Carolina.

但是,在少數州(包括新墨西哥州和北卡羅萊納州的主要戰場)中,以這種方式註冊的截止日期已經過去了。

Getting on the ballot as an independent would also require hiring staff or recruiting volunteers to quickly gather many tens of thousands of signatures across the nation before other registration periods close in August and September, a task currently made more difficult by the coronavirus pandemic.

作為獨立人士參加選票還需要僱用工作人員或招募志願者在 8 月和 9 月的其他註冊期間關閉之前快速收集全國成千上萬的簽名,這項任務目前使冠狀病毒大流行變得更加困難。

"It's hard to see Kanye West having a field operation," said McCann, adding that another option would be for West to ask supporters to write his name on the ballot.

「很難看到 Kanye West 具有現場操作,」麥肯說, 補充說,另一種選擇將是西方要求支持者在選票上寫他的名字.

It is unclear if West, who is also known for his marriage to reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, has filed any official paperwork to appear on state election ballots. Reuters was unable to reach West's publicist for comment.

目前尚不清楚西, 誰也知道他的婚姻與真人秀電視明星金·卡戴珊西, 已經提交了任何官方文件出現在州選舉選票.路透社無法與西方的公關人員聯繫徵求評論。

West, a celebrity highly skilled in grabbing the spotlight, has previously announced plans to run for president without doing so. Last week he entered a 10-year deal with Gap Inc to create a line of clothing carrying the "Yeezy" brand name.

West 是一位非常熟練抓住聚光燈的名人,此前已經宣布計劃競選總統而不這樣做。上週他與他達成了 10 年的協議 差距公司 創建一系列帶有「Yeezy」品牌名稱的服裝。

He made headlines during a visit to the White House in October 2018 when he delivered a rambling, profanity-laden speech in which he discussed alternative universes and his diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Three weeks later, he said he was distancing himself from politics and that he believed he had been used to spread messages he did not believe in.

2018 年 10 月,他在白宮訪問期間成為頭條新聞,當時他發表了漫漫而富饒的演講,在演講中,他討論了替代宇宙以及他對躁鬱症的診斷。三個星期後,他說自己與政治疏遠,他相信自己已經習慣於傳播他不相信的信息。

Even with a serious campaign, West would be unlikely to draw more than a few percentage points of the vote, peeling away similar numbers of votes from Trump and Biden, said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.

弗吉尼亞大學政治中心主任拉里·薩巴托(Larry Sabato)表示,即使進行了嚴重的競選活動,West 也不太可能吸引超過幾個百分點的投票,從川普和拜登那裡剝奪了類似的票數。

"He's got a long way to go even to convince us that he's serious," said Sabato.

「他還有很長的路要走,甚至要說服我們他是認真的,」薩巴托說。

The most recent candidate to put significant effort into launching a presidential campaign a few months before the election was Evan McMullin, a former CIA operative who announced his bid in August 2016. McMullin only appeared on the ballot in 11 states, receiving 0.53% of the popular vote.

最近的候選人投入顯著努力推出總統競選前幾個月選舉是埃文·麥克馬林, 前中央情報局手術誰在八月宣布他的競標 2016.麥克馬林只出現在選票 11 狀態, 接收 0.53% 的普及投票.

"There's a way to run as an outsider but it's hard and expensive, and I think West, or anyone else, has missed their window of opportunity to have a meaningful impact," said Nathan Gonzales, editor of Inside Elections, which provides nonpartisan analysis of campaigns.

「有一種方法可以作為局外人運行,但它既困難又昂貴,我認為 West 或其他任何人都錯過了對競選活動的無黨派分析的機會之窗,可以產生有意義的影響。

(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Scott Malone and Daniel Wallis)

(由賈森·蘭格報告; 斯科特·馬龍和丹尼爾·沃利斯編輯)

譯文內容由第三人軟體翻譯。


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