Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrates casting his first vote in his planned 51 state/district presidential polls before discarding Republican rival Donald Trump from his ballot. warned against state authorities attempting to evict them.
President Kennedy spoke Tuesday in Salt Lake City after Utah became eligible to vote, saying the substantial financial investment and building of a ground game in the Beehive State would be a good model for a national campaign against the two major parties. Told. A political party with deep pockets.
Last month, Colorado's all-Democratic Supreme Court issued a divisive decision to exclude Trump from the primary ballot, and soon after, Maine Democratic Secretary of State Shena Bellows issued a similar ruling in Augusta. Measures were taken.
President Kennedy called this pattern “wrong-conceived” and “counterproductive,” and said that while he is not a fan of President Trump, he could fairly defeat him without the “tilted playing field” created by removing ballots. He told The Story that he was confident he could do it.
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“I think the American people want to see a fair fight. They want debate. They want true democracy. They can choose their own candidate, their own president, instead of letting a court choose them.” I hope so,” he said.
The heir of a Democratic family argues in a Colorado lawsuit that the court's ruling that Trump was not indicted or convicted of sedition is flawed and appears to have violated the former president's due process rights. He said that.
“I think this turns Trump into some kind of…mythical figure. I think it's very, very short-sighted and wrong. It's un-American,” Kennedy said, calling the development the actions of a banana republic government. He spoke while making a comparison.
As for his own race, Kennedy said The arduous efforts he and his team had to undertake in Utah and elsewhere to qualify each ballot, often by collecting a certain number of signatures, would not help him in the long run. is likely to be very useful.
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He points out that most of the world's democratic systems feature multiple political parties, and that George Washington, the country's only essentially independent president so far, has demonstrated that the two-party system brings It added that it warned of the influence of partisanship and outside interests.
“In fact, ironically, this policy will probably help us in the long run, because it will force us to build up our military, and it will force us to wage ground warfare in all these states. “We're being forced to do it, and that will help us when it comes time to vote,” Kennedy said.
President Kennedy said Presidents Trump and Biden voted “free” because of the two-party system, and said polls showed President Biden within 10 points of each, ultimately added that he is confident that he will follow in Washington's footsteps and become the next independent president. Three-way swing state race.
“If the other two guys had 33 points, I could win with 34 points and it would be winner-take-all,” he said.
The last real independence bid was launched by populist Texas businessman Ross Perot in 1992, but his strong performance led critics to believe he was ideologically defeated by incumbent President George H.W.・His claim to be close to Bush led to the come-from-behind victory of former Arkansas Democratic Governor Bill Clinton.
George Wallace, a racist former Democratic governor of Alabama who ran as a pro-independence activist in 1968, and former President Theodore Roosevelt, who switched from the Republican Party to a progressive party in 1912, are the de facto third party in modern times. We have completed the final trio of candidates.
