Kanye West's 2020 presidential bid began with a Tweet on July 4 and continued in a pretty out-there Forbes interview where he said, among other things, that he wanted to run the White House like Wakanda in Black Panther and that Planned Parenthood facilities were "placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work." Unrealistic as his presidential run was, it is now apparently over.
New York Magazine blog The Intelligencer posted last night that Kanye had hired a few campaign specialists to help him get enough signatures for him to get on the ballot in Florida and and other states. But one of those specialists, Steve Kramer, who had been hired to work Florida and South Carolina specifically (and had "overwhelming support to get him on the ballot"), told Intelligencer that "He’s out.”