Kanye West Withdraws Petition to Get on NJ’s 2020 Ballot

Kanye West Withdraws Petition to Get on NJ’s 2020 Ballot
Kanye West answers questions during a service at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 17, 2019. Michael Wyke/AP Photo
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TRENTON, N.J.—Kanye West withdrew his petition to appear as a presidential candidate on New Jersey’s ballot, according to an email chain between a judge and what appears to be the rapper’s campaign email address.

In email correspondence obtained by The Associated Press, an unidentified person writing from a Kanye 2020 address tells Administrative Law Judge Gail Cookson that West is dropping his effort to appear on New Jersey’s ballot.