Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans a campaign stop in Packer Land this week on behalf of former President Donald Trump, but his Hail Mary in the U.S. Supreme Court — if successful — would be an even bigger win for the GOP presidential candidate in the battleground Badger State.
Kennedy is asking the high court to remove his name from the Wisconsin ballot, overturning decisions by a state circuit court and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
The Kennedy family scion, who ended his independent presidential campaign and endorsed Trump in August, also has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take his name off the Michigan ballot. It’s a last-ditch effort to help Trump win two so-called “Blue Wall” states where his third-party inclusion could peel away critical votes from the former president and give Trump’s Democrat opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, an electoral lift.
“… [I]n a race this close, every swing-state vote matters. So, if those who would vote for Trump in a two-way race pull the lever for Kennedy’s ghost ship of a campaign, Democrats will gladly take it,” Matt Bennett, co-founder of the center-left think tank Third Way, told The Hill in a story gloating about the damage RFK Jr.’s name could do in the two critical swing states.
The RealClearPolitics averages of polls shows Trump leading Harris by a whisker — 0.2 percentage points in both Michigan and Wisconsin — going into the last campaign week before Election Day.
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