A super PAC supporting independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said it has collected enough signatures for his name to appear on the ballots in Georgia and Arizona, two battleground states that will help determine who wins the presidency.
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The group, American Values 2024, said on its website as of Wednesday morning that it had collected 20,188 signatures in Georgia, well above the 7,500 required there, and an additional 62,605 signatures in Arizona, more than the 42,303 threshold in that state.
While Kennedy faces long odds in Georgia and Arizona, his presence on the ballot could affect which candidate carries the states in a matchup between President Biden and former president Donald Trump.
Arizona and Georgia played critical roles in Biden’s victory over Trump in 2020. Biden defeated Trump in Arizona by a little more than 10,000 votes and by nearly 12,000 votes in Georgia.
The PAC aligned with Kennedy has pledged it will spend $15 million to help him get on ballots across the country. The Democratic National Committee has accused Kennedy of violating federal election law with the effort. The DNC alleged in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that the super PAC cannot take unlimited funds, independently collect signatures and then transmit them to the campaign.
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, Kennedy’s campaign manager and daughter-in-law, said the allegations are “a nonissue being raised by a partisan political entity that seems to be increasingly concerned with its own candidate and viability.” She said the PAC has yet to submit signatures to the campaign.
An email sent to the PAC on Wednesday morning was not immediately returned.
Kennedy has said he is confident he would get his name on every state’s ballot, but he offered few details about how.
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“I’m not worried about ballot access,” Kennedy said in a speech to the California Libertarian convention Saturday. At the event, he said nearly 100,000 volunteers have been accumulating signatures.
Biden has struggled with low public approval ratings, and polls show him in tight matchups with Trump, the likely Republican nominee, in battleground states.
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who has promoted a host of conspiracy theories, launched his presidential campaign in April, initially running in the Democratic contest.
In October, he announced that he would withdraw from the Democratic race and instead run as an independent, shunning the party closely associated with his family. His uncle was president, and his father was a senator and Democratic presidential candidate in the 1960s; both were assassinated.
The pro-Kennedy group also said on its website as of Wednesday morning that it had collected about 70 percent of the signatures needed to appear on the ballot in Michigan and about 60 percent of the signatures it needs in South Carolina.
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The group, American Values 2024, said on its website as of Wednesday morning that it had collected 20,188 signatures in Georgia, well above the 7,500 required there, and an additional 62,605 signatures in Arizona, more than the 42,303 threshold in that state.
While Kennedy faces long odds in Georgia and Arizona, his presence on the ballot could affect which candidate carries the states in a matchup between President Biden and former president Donald Trump.
Arizona and Georgia played critical roles in Biden’s victory over Trump in 2020. Biden defeated Trump in Arizona by a little more than 10,000 votes and by nearly 12,000 votes in Georgia.
The PAC aligned with Kennedy has pledged it will spend $15 million to help him get on ballots across the country. The Democratic National Committee has accused Kennedy of violating federal election law with the effort. The DNC alleged in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that the super PAC cannot take unlimited funds, independently collect signatures and then transmit them to the campaign.
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, Kennedy’s campaign manager and daughter-in-law, said the allegations are “a nonissue being raised by a partisan political entity that seems to be increasingly concerned with its own candidate and viability.” She said the PAC has yet to submit signatures to the campaign.
An email sent to the PAC on Wednesday morning was not immediately returned.
Kennedy has said he is confident he would get his name on every state’s ballot, but he offered few details about how.
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“I’m not worried about ballot access,” Kennedy said in a speech to the California Libertarian convention Saturday. At the event, he said nearly 100,000 volunteers have been accumulating signatures.
Biden has struggled with low public approval ratings, and polls show him in tight matchups with Trump, the likely Republican nominee, in battleground states.
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who has promoted a host of conspiracy theories, launched his presidential campaign in April, initially running in the Democratic contest.
In October, he announced that he would withdraw from the Democratic race and instead run as an independent, shunning the party closely associated with his family. His uncle was president, and his father was a senator and Democratic presidential candidate in the 1960s; both were assassinated.
The pro-Kennedy group also said on its website as of Wednesday morning that it had collected about 70 percent of the signatures needed to appear on the ballot in Michigan and about 60 percent of the signatures it needs in South Carolina.
