Chance The Rapper has admitted that he thinks US President Donald Trump will win a second term, saying that America is currently facing a “fork in the road”.
Speaking in the latest episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour podcast, Chance got candid on his predictions for the presidential election, saying he doesn’t believe Joe Biden will win.
“I feel like there’s a fork in the road, like a black hole. I feel like I could change the course of history right now with a certain answer,” he said.
He continued, “I’m just going to be honest: I don’t think that Joe Biden will win in November. I don’t. I felt like Trump was gonna have two terms since the beginning of his first term. Just because of what I know about politics. What my dad always used to say is you have to energise the base.”
He added: “So, it’s not about getting people to vote against something, even though you do want to create a clear opposition and create fear of something, but it’s mainly about getting somebody to vote for something. From his first month in office, Trump was already holding campaign rallies, filling up arenas full of misguided folks. And I think he’s been running his re-election campaign for three years.”
Despite previously voicing his taste for Trump and the controversial president’s description of Chance’s hometown of Chicago as “hell on earth”, the rapper is “convinced” he will be elected for a second term.
“I’m convinced that he will win. It’s not any one reason. It’s not because he’s some super genius, and it’s not because America is overwhelmingly racist, and it’s not because Joe Biden is the worst candidate that the Democratic National Committee could have picked.
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“A big part of it is we don’t feel represented. The folks who are the most disenfranchised, I just feel like we were not represented by the D.N.C., and we haven’t been for a while. I think we get shamed into voting for people sometimes by the D.N.C.”
It comes after Chance faced backlash after saying he would trust Kanye West as president of the United States more than Joe Biden.
“I finally got the answer now,” he wrote on Twitter after fans criticised the muso’s support of West. “Y’all trust Biden more than yall trust Ye. I think I understand why – I just don’t feel the same way.”
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