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Kanye West Waits Until Polls Are About To Close To Encourage People To Vote

Kaitlan Collins Contributor
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Kanye West waited until approximately half an hour before most polls began to close on the East Coast to jump on his Twitter account and encourage his followers to vote, claiming “the midterms are extremely important.”

West, whose wife Kim Kardashian said on Monday she was standing with Obama during the midterms, said he was supporting the Democratic ticket, and justified his late tweets by saying he and Kim met with Obama just two weeks ago.

Below are the tweets he sent out around 6:20 p.m.