<a href=”https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/politics/kanye-west-2020-campaign/index.html” target=”_blank”>Kanye West’s presidential campaign</a> has shelled out nearly $1.5 million to a secretive consulting firm in Arizona — a brand new one, explicitly devoted to independent campaigns but run by a man with a long history of controversial work for Republicans.

Though the firm shows up in campaign