RFK Jr. is NOT gonna be much of a factor in the November Presidential election…
But?
He IS a media sideshow now…..
Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sided with Donald Trump on Wednesday in the former president’s battle to remain on the ballot.
“Donald Trump has not been convicted of an insurrection. Maybe he did it but, you know, he hasn’t been charged with it,” said Kennedy, who is also an attorney. “I don’t think it’s fair.”
Kennedy also said that if Trump remains off the ballot it will make his supporters “angry and frustrated and justifiably so” with the democratic process, at a press conference in Utah touting his place on the state’s ballot in November.
Kennedy also has his own challenges gaining ballot access, which is often an expensive and legally complicated process for third-party candidates. The president of the super PAC supporting Kennedy has also drawn comparisons between legal challenges to Trump staying on ballots and Kennedy.
“We don’t need to be protected from a candidate by this sort of anti-democratic set of forces that is gaining traction in this country,” said Tony Lyons, president of American Values 2024, on The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast after the Maine decision. “Whether it’s Bobby Kennedy or Donald Trump or Joe Biden, it’s a direction that’s obviously bad for democracy.”
Kennedy said he aims to be on the ballot in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., which means navigating 51 different legal procedures, all with different deadlines and requirements. Utah’s deadline was the earliest, so it was the first target for the campaign.
The campaign is also actively gathering signatures in the swing state of Arizona, where campaign press secretary Stefanie Spear said the state’s electors have been certified, as well as Missouri, Maryland and Nevada…..
image…ABC News….