Kanye West Spent Over $5M On Presidential Campaign Consultants, FEC Filings Show

Kanye West launched his presidential this summer, but he has already spent millions of dollars on the campaign—mostly just on consulting firms.

The “Power” rapper largely self-financed his run for president, loaning his campaign $6.76 million. Federal Elections Commission (FEC) filings show that he has $3,850 from eight other donations, NBC reports.

Most of West’s campaign spending has been on consulting firms. The filing shows that $5.45 million went to three firms, Millennial Strategies LLC, Fortified Consulting and Atlas Strategy Group LLC.

West is on the 2020 presidential election ballot in Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Vermont.

The father of four is unlikely to be on every ballot on Election Day, with Wisconsin, New Jersey, Ohio, Missouri, West Virginia, Virginia, Illinois and Arizona denying him a spot for various reasons. West is suing some of those states, including Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Forbes reported in April that West is a billionaire, estimating his net worth to be $1.3 billion. His company, Yeezy LLC, received a multimillion-dollar Paycheck Protection Program loan from the government earlier this year.

West is married to Kim Kardashian West. The “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” star has not commented much on her husband’s presidential bid. Less than a month into his campaign, the KKW Beauty mogul released a lengthy statement explaining that West was struggling with his mental health.

“He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother, and has to deal with the pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bi-polar disorder,” she wrote in an Instagram story in July. “Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words some times do not align with his intentions.”