Here's why KanyeWest is listed as a vice presidential candidate in California.
Like De La Fuente, Robinson says the party was not able to get in touch with West before, during or since the August convention and nomination -- which he says West did not solicit -- but that they even briefly considered making picking him for the top of the ticket in California."We like Kanye. We liked a lot of the content on his platform, especially his scriptural references ... but we just could not reach him," he says.
In the end, the party has the authority to choose the ticket, and just as De La Fuente's preferred VP is author Darcy Richardson , who is on the ballot alongside the entrepreneur in the other states where he is eligible, Robinson is adamant that AIP is happy with De La Fuente, but would not have nominated"that person [Richardson] for anything."
"I was not consulted that he would be my running mate, so to me it was a complete surprise," De La Fuente says, noting that West's wife, Kim Kardashian West, has spoken in public about the, which De La Fuente believes believes makes him"not stable enough to be a presidential or vice presidential pick."
"I just think it’s a joke," says De La Fuente, who does, however, see an upside in putting up the most diverse slate ever in California to take on two 70-plus white men in Trump and Democratic candidate former VP Joe Biden."It's the first time in U.S. history with a brown candidate at the top and an African-American candidate on the ballot," he says.
"He's not qualified to be a write-in, so anyone who writes him in ... their vote will not get counted. For him to say to people to write him in shows me he doesn't really know what that means. It's stupidity," he says, adding that he has not tried to reach out to West so far and that the rapper has not contacted him either.
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