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Wests registration as a Republican came five days after heannouncedhis presidential campaign on Twitter.
Iowa Code requires a candidate to include the political party with which the candidate is a registered voter.
Hillary Clinton only narrowly won the North Star State by 1.5 percent in the last presidential election.
To get on the ballot there, Westonly has to obtain2,000 valid signatures by August 18.
His burden to get on the ballot in Virginia is higher.
Questions have continued to be raised aboutthe West campaigns ties to Republican operatives.
Kushner insisted to reporters that they only talked about policy and not Wests presidential campaign.
It is mathematically impossible for him to earn the 270 electoral votes needed to win the election, however.
Neither the Biden nor the Trump campaign immediately responded to requests about whether they would follow Wests suggestion.
