{"id":64791,"date":"2020-08-11T22:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/kanye-west-qualifies-for-ballot-in-arkansas\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T22:27:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T22:27:16","slug":"kanye-west-qualifies-for-ballot-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/kanye-west-qualifies-for-ballot-in-arkansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West qualifies for ballot in Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2014 Rapper Kanye West has qualified to appear on Arkansas\u2019 ballot this fall as an independent presidential candidate, Secretary of State John Thurston said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Thurston told West\u2019s representatives in a letter that his office had verified the rapper had submitted at least the 1,000 valid signatures from registered voters required to appear on the ballot. West\u2019s representatives last week submitted more than 1,700 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>West, who once backed Republican President Donald Trump, announced last month that he had broken with Trump and would launch his own presidential bid. West has since qualified in states such as Oklahoma and Colorado, while his effort to get on the ballot is being challenged in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers and activists with GOP ties in have been involved in efforts in Arkansas and other states to get West on the ballot, fueling suspicions that he\u2019s being pushed by Trump allies hoping to siphon support away from former Vice President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas is a solidly Republican state that Trump won easily in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>West\u2019s wife, reality TV star and beauty mogul Kim Kardashian West, asked the public on social media last month to show compassion and empathy toward her husband because he is bipolar.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsletter-form-story\">\n<div id=\"news-signup-block\">\n<h3>Sign up for Daily Newsletters<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2020 The Washington Times, LLC.\n                        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/aug\/11\/kanye-west-qualifies-ballot-arkansas\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2014 Rapper Kanye West has qualified to appear on Arkansas\u2019 ballot this fall as an independent presidential candidate, Secretary of State John Thurston said Tuesday. Thurston told West\u2019s representatives in a letter that his office had verified the rapper had submitted at least the 1,000 valid signatures from registered voters required to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6870,7440],"class_list":{"0":"post-64791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-kanye","9":"tag-qualifies"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kanye West qualifies for ballot in Arkansas - Virus Reports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/kanye-west-qualifies-for-ballot-in-arkansas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kanye West qualifies for ballot in Arkansas - Virus Reports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LITTLE ROCK, Ark. \u2014 Rapper Kanye West has qualified to appear on Arkansas\u2019 ballot this fall as an independent presidential candidate, Secretary of State John Thurston said Tuesday. 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