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t’s curious. The same Democratic Party that has feverishly tried to keep leftist third-party presidential candidates off November’s ballot is now fighting like hell to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on.
On Tuesday, elections officials in two critical swing states — Michigan and Wisconsin — decreed that the Kennedy family scion who last week suspended his independent run and endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign will remain on November’s ballot. He may face similar problems in other battleground states, such as Nevada and North Carolina. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a hyper-partisan Democrat, said Kennedy must remain on the Nov. 5 general election ballot.
“Minor party candidates cannot withdraw, so his name will remain on the ballot,” Benson spokeswoman Cheri Hardmon told the Detroit News in an email.
Kennedy was running under the banner of the Natural Law Party in Michigan.
The third-party candidate quickly acted in asking several states to take his name out of the running. Michigan just as quickly said no, with Benson asserting that the timing in state presidential elector law doesn’t allow for the Natural Law Party to remove Kennedy. The small political party has already held its convention to elect its electors, Hardmon told the Detroit publication.
“They cannot meet at this point to select new electors since it’s past the primary,” she said. Benson’s strict interpretation of Michigan elector law might have something to do with the fact that polls — including Kennedy campaign internal polling — show RFK Jr.’s presence on the presidential ballot would drain more votes from Republican Trump than Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s freshly minted presidential candidate.
Benson, an extreme liberal in a state governed by extreme liberals, has repeatedly been caught abusing and manipulating Michigan election law. She pushed her political agenda in trying to remove leftist third-party presidential candidate Cornel West from Michigan’s November ballot.
Judge James R. Redford ruled over the weekend that, contrary to the Michigan Bureau of Elections decision, West’s campaign had presented an adequate number of petition signatures to secure his place on the ballot. Benson joined forces with the state Democratic Party and a leftist political action committee in arguing that the independent candidate should be denied ballot certification because his campaign did not properly notarize an “affidavit of identity.” The judge ruled such affidavits are not required.
“The Court respectfully concludes the SOS and Director of the Bureau of Elections (DBOE) misapplied the law in finding otherwise,” Redford wrote in his brief but direct order. “The AOIs [Affidavits of Identity] the candidates filed cannot serve as a mechanism to exclude them from the ballot.”
Benson has said she will appeal the decision.
“This ruling is not just a legal victory — it is a moral victory for everyone who believes in the sanctity of the democratic process,” West said in a statement. “Our campaign submitted over 26,000 signatures, significantly more than required, which the court recognized as a legitimate expression of the people’s will.”
But the “people’s will” is subservient to the Democratic Party’s insatiable thirst for power. West represents a threat to the Dems’ prospects in must-win Michigan, with the potential to siphon enough votes away from liberals not sold on “joy” candidate Harris to help give Trump a Great Lakes State victory.
Funny how the Dems fought so hard to keep RFK off the D Primary ballots....now are fighting to keep him on the General Election....
THREAT TO DEMOCRACY!!!!!1111
They're following the law. Kennedy's the one who chose to run as the Natural Law party candidate because it required fewer signatures than running as an independent. Now he's stuck on the ballot Because he and Trump couldn't cut a deal earlier. Two raging narcissists, liars, and assholes.
Hey you halfwit chucklefuck, how many holy relics have you purchased from Trump's NFT website? I hear they cure all types of illness if you pray to them daily.
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