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There is also ongoing litigation in five other states where he still hopes to make the cut.

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There also was a protest held outside the secretary of states office on Friday afternoon.

Atlas Strategy Group, the firm run by Keller, was paid nearly $1.3 million.

The first two firms have deep Republican ties.

The campaign has also spent over $260,000 on lawyers, most of whom have Republican ties.

Ruhlands firm, Husch Blackwell, was paid $10,000 by the West campaign.

The RNCpaidtheir law firm, Bowles Rice, nearly $17,000 in May.

West has paid the firm $20,000.

The West campaigns lawyers dont represent its only ties to the GOP.

She simply said maybe.

The obstacle there was not the rapper but his running mate, Biblical life coach Michelle Tidball.

A source familiar with the effort said that Tidball was hesitant to file that paperwork.

Wests campaign is expected to take more concrete form now that the filing deadlines have passed.

However, that seems likely to change over the next two months.

West, of course, still has plenty of money to spend.