We might never know whether the more than 60,000 people who voted for Kanye West did so as a protest to front-runners Joe Biden and Donald Trump, or if they were just having some fun – or if they sincerely liked his pro-religion, pro-environment and pro-education platform.
But we do know he did better in Tennessee than anywhere else.
More Tennesseans (10,216) voted for West – an artist known as much for his musical genius as his sometimes erratic behavior – than those from any other state that included him on the ballot. Among those were more than 800 Chattanooga area voters who supported the hip hop producer and artist.
Abby Cox, a 31-year-old hairdresser in Chattanooga, voted for West because of a shared sense of values expressed by the hip hop mogul in a 2.5-hour interview West did with comedian and podcast provocateur Joe Rogan.
“[The interview] inspired me to believe Kanye. Like his sincerity and his intention is so pure, that he really does seem to me to be what Trump claimed to be when he first started,” Cox said, citing West’s enthusiasm for business and family. “But the thing about it is that Trump’s a bully, and Kanye has to be extremely diplomatic in his profession.”