{"id":1447755,"date":"2024-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1447755"},"modified":"2024-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:00:00","slug":"kennedy-condemns-efforts-to-remove-trump-from-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/kennedy-condemns-efforts-to-remove-trump-from-ballots\/1447755\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Condemns Efforts To Remove Trump From Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kennedy Condemns Efforts To Remove Trump From Ballots<\/span><\/p>\n

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr said Donald Trump and American voters were being treated unfairly by efforts across the country to block the former president from 2024 ballots<\/strong>. Kennedy’s remarks came at a Wednesday press conference to spotlight his own first major milestone in his pursuit of 50-state ballot access: securing enough signatures to appear in the Utah general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump has already been declared ineligible to appear on Republican primary ballots in two states<\/strong>, as a court in Colorado<\/a> and an unelected bureaucrat in Maine<\/a> said he’s disqualified under the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, for having engaged in an “insurrection” in the form of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on Capitol Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At Wednesday’s press conference, Kennedy stands next to a chart summarizing his ballot-access drive<\/strong> (Jeffrey D. Allred\/Deseret News<\/em><\/a>)<\/a><\/p>\n

As we reported Saturday, Colorado and Maine are just the start, as there are 20 states with lawsuits in progress<\/a>\u00a0aiming to eject Trump from the democratic process, and more to come. On Wednesday, RFK, Jr said the trend concerns him greatly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump has not been convicted of an insurrection.<\/strong> Maybe he did it but, you know, he hasn\u2019t been charged with it,\u201d said Kennedy. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair.\u201d\u00a0He also alluded to the fact that the ballot-blocking drive promises to stir the passions on the Trump side<\/strong> of an increasingly divided American electorate, saying it will make Trump backers “angry and frustrated and justifiably so.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Trump is kept out of office through judicial fiat rather than being defeated in a fair election, his supporters will never accept the result. This country will become ungovernable.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) December 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

Separately, Tom Lyons, president of the Kennedy-boosting American Values 2024 PAC, told Sharyl Attkisson that Trump’s dilemma relates to the difficulty that independent and third-party candidates have in making it to the ballot:<\/p>\n

“We don\u2019t need to be protected from a candidate by this sort of anti-democratic set of forces that is gaining traction in this country.<\/strong> Whether it\u2019s Bobby Kennedy or Donald Trump or Joe Biden, it\u2019s a direction that\u2019s obviously bad for democracy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The main purpose of Wednesday’s event was to announce that Kennedy has qualified to appear on the election ballot in Utah<\/strong>, having secured signatures from 1,000 registered voters. The campaign expects to spend $15 million<\/a> on its nationwide ballot-access drive.<\/p>\n

.@BreakingPointsN<\/a> @krystalball<\/a> + @esaagar<\/a> ask about my efforts to get on the ballot in all 50 states, support among non-voters, and whether or not I\u2019ll be on the debate stage with Trump + Biden. #Kennedy24<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/rqovJqMh0v<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

Kennedy decried the thicket that he and similarly-situated candidates must navigate just to put their names in front of voters, saying<\/a> that “arbitrary and capricious” rules create an “undemocratic lock that the major political parties have on this process…It\u2019s all designed to keep third parties from getting on the ballot.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Angling to play more than a mere spoiler in the November election, Kennedy shared<\/a> some math that makes him optimistic:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could technically win the election with 34 percentage points because it\u2019s winner take all<\/strong>. So all we have to do is take 4.5 percentage points from each President Trump and President Biden to win the national election, and I have 11 months to do that.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He may be a little farther from that goal line than he suggests. His numbers may be in the right neighborhood if you look at a three-way race, but in a more realistic five-person race that includes Biden, Trump, Kennedy, Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent Cornel West, the current RealClearPolitics average<\/a> has Trump at 40.6%, Biden at 35.6% and Kennedy at 13.0%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 01\/04\/2024 – 19:00<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/kennedy-condemns-efforts-remove-trump-ballots<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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