Changes are coming to ballots in battleground states now that independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has ended his presidential campaign, and that spells bad news for Vice President Kamala Harris.
One such state is Nevada where pre-dropout polls showed the Democrat leading former President Donald Trump by less than one percent, according to FiveThirtyEight. Factor in that Kennedy was pulling 4% of voters polled in early August, and Harris is on track to lose the Sun Belt state in November. Left unmentioned is the frequent tendency by pollsters to underestimate Trump’s level of support by several percentage points, as evidenced in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections.
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KTNV Las Vegas reported on Wednesday that state election officials have removed RFK from the November ballot, narrowing the choices voters have for president. Kennedy, who endorsed Trump after dropping out last Friday, previously qualified for the ballot and publicly feuded with Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar over allegedly failing to follow state laws when submitting signatures on nomination petitions. A lawsuit filed by two voters, including Aguilar, sought to keep Kennedy off the ballot as well.
Still, Trump and Harris won’t have the race to themselves. Nevada voters will be given options for president by the Libertarian, Independent American and Green parties as well as an option for “None of these Candidates.” The latter has been frequently chosen by far-left activists upset at Harris and President Biden over the administration’s failure to recognize Israel’s war in Gaza as a “genocide” against Palestinians. During last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, protestors promised to continue blanking their ballots if Harris did not change course in U.S. support for Israel.
It remains to be seen whether Kennedy’s name will be removed from other battleground states where Harris held a slim lead earlier this month. He is unable to remove his name from ballots in Wisconsin and Michigan, Fox News reported, jeopardizing President Trump’s ability to win states that he narrowly carried in 2016 but lost four years later. Now a member of Trump’s transition team, Kennedy said he is actively reaching out to allies in swing states as he urges his legions of supporters to back Trump. “In about 10 battleground states where my presence would be a spoiler, I’m going to remove my name, and I’ve already started that process and urge voters not to vote for me,” Kennedy told the outlet. “Our polling consistently showed by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues.”
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