Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his campaign to support former President Donald Trump, will reportedly not be able to remove himself from Michigan's presidential ballot.
Kennedy is trying to withdraw from the ballot in 10 battleground states, but won't be able to do so in Michigan, WKAR said. Reported.
Kennedy was nominated by the Natural Law Party, which had already held a convention, but the deadline for holding a new convention had passed. attention“The Michigan Department of State quoted Sheri Hardmon, a spokeswoman for the department.
The party's state nominating convention was held in April.
Hardmon said the party could have held a new nominating convention any time before the state's August primary election.
“The Natural Law Party held a convention to select electors for Robert Kennedy Jr.,” she said. “Because the primaries are over, we cannot meet at this time to select new electors.”
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Kennedy announced Friday that he was suspending his campaign in order to not hurt Trump's chances in endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, but not appearing on Michigan's ballot could have significant ramifications for November's election.
Michigan is one of several key battleground states that will play a key role in determining the next president. In 2020, President Joe Biden Winner The state went to Trump by 154,188 votes, just 2.8 percentage points. Carried The state went on to beat two-time presidential loser Hillary Clinton by an even narrower margin of 10,704 votes — just 0.3 percentage points.
In other words, Michigan is likely to be decided by just a few percentage points again, and Kennedy's presence on the ballot could determine the fate of the state and, ultimately, the outcome of the election.
In July, when Biden was still considered the Democratic nominee, Kennedy said Dr. Phil McGraw said 57 percent of Trump's supporters would rally to him if he were to drop out of the election.
But a poll by Fabrizio Lee & Associates and Impact Research found that carried out An AARP poll from Aug. 8-11 showed that when Kennedy was on the ballot in Michigan, Trump performed better against Harris than in a head-to-head matchup.
In the three-way race, Trump received 45 percent of the vote, Harris 43 percent, and Kennedy 6 percent. In the Trump-Harris race, they were tied at 48 percent, suggesting that Kennedy's presence may actually be an advantage for Trump in Michigan. This was notable before Kennedy fully endorsed Trump on Friday.
The poll was conducted among a representative sample of 600 voters statewide and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
