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Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who suspended his campaign and endorsed former President Donald Trump last month, has received victories in two battleground states Friday in his efforts to get his name off the ballot, so as not to take votes away from Trump.
Michigan and North Carolina have finally caved after RFK Jr. took legal action to get his name off their ballots.
Wisconsin is now reportedly the only battleground state where his name remains on the ballot.
NORTH CAROLINA
From the Associated Press: North Carolina court orders RFK Jr.’s name to be removed just before ballots are sent
A North Carolina appeals court on Friday ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name must be taken off state ballots for president, upending plans in the battleground state just as officials were about to begin mailing out the nation’s first absentee ballots for the Nov. 5 presidential election.
The intermediate-level Court of Appeals issued an order granting Kennedy’s request to halt the mailing of ballots that included his name. The court also told a trial judge to order the State Board of Elections to distribute ballots without Kennedy’s name on them. No legal explanation was given.
State law otherwise required the first absentee ballots to be mailed or transmitted no later than 60 days before the general election, making Friday the deadline. The process of reprinting and assembling ballot packages likely would take more than two weeks, state attorneys have said. The ruling could be appealed.
Kennedy, the nominee of the We The People party in North Carolina, had sued last week to get off the state’s ballots after he suspended his campaign and endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump. But the Democratic majority on the State Board of Elections rejected the request, saying it was too late in the process of printing ballots and coding tabulation machines. Kennedy then sued.
🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Court of Appeals just ordered RFK Jr’s name to be taken off the General Election ballot in the state.
Mail in ballots were supposed to be sent out today in NC but they will now have to be re-printed. pic.twitter.com/bg8jEa0JoJ
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 6, 2024
MICHIGAN
From the Detroit Free Press: Appeals court reverses earlier rulings, says RFK Jr.’s name should be removed from ballot
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s name should be removed from Michigan’s Nov. 5 presidential ballot, as Kennedy has requested, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Friday, overturning earlier decisions by a lower court judge and the Michigan Department of State.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, “had no basis to deny (Kennedy’s) request to withdraw his name from the ballot,” said a three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Kennedy, 70, suspended his independent bid for president on Aug. 23 and endorsed former President Donald Trump. In several battleground states the Kennedy campaign moved to be taken off the ballot, in an apparent effort to not take votes away from Trump.
The Court of Appeals ruled Friday that a section of state law cited by Benson in denying Kennedy’s withdrawal request applies only to candidates for state office, not to presidential candidates such as Kennedy.
🚨BREAKING: Michigan Appeals Court just ordered that RFK Jr’s name be taken off the ballot in the state.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson refused to take his name off, which came after attempting to remove Cornel West.
She has once against lost in court. pic.twitter.com/SDbfg5R3QM
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) September 6, 2024
HUGE WIN FOR MAGA
Appeals courts in both Michigan and North Carolina order RFK Jr.’s name to be REMOVED from the ballot
Democrat operatives were working to keep him on the ballot in an effort to hurt Trump pic.twitter.com/7qZdHoIZIe
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 6, 2024
Needless to say, the North Carolina Democratic Party chair is PISSED that a court says RFK Jr.’s name needs to be removed from the ballot.
She says it’s “actually cost[ing]..our election system” and this push is “interferring with our election system and the integrity of it” pic.twitter.com/VZCbRP16oD
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 6, 2024
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