Unbiased presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy will keep on the North Carolina poll, in accordance with the State Board of Elections, regardless of his current resolution to withdraw from battleground ballots and assist former President Trump.
“The State Board of Elections on Thursday rejected a request from the We The People Party to remove its nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., from the general election ballot, because it would not be practical to reprint ballots that have already been printed and meet the state law deadline to start absentee voting,” a press launch reads.
“The State Board scheduled an emergency meeting for Thursday to consider the request,” the board mentioned later within the launch. “A majority of the Board determined it was too late in the process to change course and prepare and print new ballots across the state.”
The election board additionally featured the doc from Kennedy’s get together that requested he and his working mate Nichole Shanahan be faraway from the ticket within the Tar Heel state.
The information comes after the unbiased candidate introduced he would droop his marketing campaign within the swing states that would resolve the election towards Trump. Kennedy mentioned he would keep on the poll in most pink and blue states.
He joined the previous president at a rally in Arizona earlier this month, the place Trump welcomed him into the fold. Kennedy additionally introduced earlier this week that he had been requested to hitch the GOP nominee’s transition workforce.
North Carolina wasn’t the primary state to say no to take away Kennedy from the poll. Each Michigan and Wisconsin, additionally key swing-states within the 2024 presidential election, additionally shot down the request.
“Minor party candidates cannot withdraw, so his name will remain on the ballot in the November election,” Cheri Hardmon, senior press secretary for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, mentioned in a Tuesday assertion to Axios.
The Hill has reached out to the We The Folks Social gathering of North Carolina and the Kennedy marketing campaign for remark.
