Pennsylvania officials say independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed paperwork to get on the ballot for the November election in the swing state. Thursday's filing comes six weeks before the Aug. 1 deadline, after which the paperwork can be challenged in court.
filed paperwork Thursday to get on the ballot for the November election in swing-state Pennsylvania , the state’s election office said.
Kennedy’s filing comes six weeks before the Aug. 1 deadline, after which the paperwork can be challenged in court.fear that Kennedy could play a spoiler role in what’s anticipated to be a close election, especially in Pennsylvania, the nation’s fifth-most populous state.With its 19 electoral votes, Pennsylvania is a top-tier prize that has swung between the parties in the last two presidential elections.
Libertarian Jo Jorgensen was on the ballot in 2020 and collected just over 79,000 votes, while three minor-party candidates on the ballot in 2016 — the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson, the Green Party’s Jill Stein and the Constitution Party’s Darrell Castle — and got nearly 190,000 votes combined.
The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848.Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and prominent anti-vaccine activist, abandoned his Democratic primary challenge to Biden last year and began campaigning as an independent.. That requires him to collect millions of signatures that must be verified by election officials before his candidacy is approved.
Kennedy’s campaign has previously said he has satisfied the requirements to appear on the ballot in 22 states, with a combined 310 electoral votes, though not all have affirmed that his name will be listed.
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