Worried his campaign may hurt Joe Biden’s reelection chances, Democrats are working overtime to prevent independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from appearing on the 2024 ballot.
On Saturday, left-wing mouthpiece CNN reported Democrats have accelerated efforts to deny Kennedy ballot access in key battleground states ahead of the November contest. According to the report, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Clear Choice PAC, a pro-Biden super PAC “focused on countering third party candidates,” have filed legal bids contesting Kennedy’s ballot access in “four states in the last month.” These include battleground states such as North Carolina and Nevada, as well as “Democratic strongholds.”
“Each of the filings claims Kennedy violated state laws that stipulate how independent candidates assemble the paperwork needed to qualify for a state’s ballot,” the report reads. “Democrats are alleging Kennedy’s campaign misled voters to sign their petitions, improperly formed a minor party to ease ballot qualification and committed procedural errors in its petitions across five states.”
According to The New York Times, Kennedy has officially gained ballot access in seven states, including Michigan. The independent candidate’s campaign has claimed it’s acquired enough signatures to appear on the ballot in 13 other states, although official certification is still pending. Among those states are North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Nevada.
CNN admits the DNC’s challenges are part of Democrats’ “broader strategy” to squash Kennedy’s campaign “in hopes of keeping the support of voters who backed Biden in 2020 but may consider Kennedy in November, potentially tilting
