(NewsNation) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged he probably won’t be able to get his name off the ballot in every state where, just a few weeks ago, his campaign fought to be included. And one reason, he said, is Democrats.
“The irony is that the Democratic National Committee was suing me across almost all of these states trying to keep me off the ballot. And they’re now suing me to keep me on the ballot,” Kennedy told NewsNation’s “The Hill.”
Kennedy said his goal is to get off the ballot in the swing states, but at least three of them aren’t cooperating. Election laws in Michigan bar “marginal” candidates from removing themselves from the ballot. In Wisconsin, the only way to get your name off the ballot is to be dead. And in North Carolina, the Board of Elections denied Kennedy’s request to withdraw his name because absentee ballots have already been sent out.
“If a candidate is on the ballot, someone will vote for them regardless,” Christopher Thrasher, a ballot access consultant who analyzes third-party campaigns, told “The Hill.”
To counter those setbacks, Kennedy said he will personally ask people to not vote for him.
“We’re planning a ‘Make American Healthy Again’ tour where we’re going to visit almost all of those states,” Kennedy said. “We’re going to send a very strong message out to people who are my supporters (that) we want them to vote for President Trump.”
Reiterating his reasons for leaving the presidential race, Kennedy said his higher priority is to move forward with his agenda, which includes no censorship, an end to U.S. support of Ukraine’s war against Russia and a dismantling of the “war machine.”
“The only way to do that is to get President Trump into the White House. So we’re going to pull out all the stops to make sure that happens.”