RFK Jr. qualifies for Hawaii ballot
Source: The Hill
02/29/24 3:56 PM ET
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear as a presidential candidate in Hawaii after gathering enough voter signatures to qualify for the state ballot.
Kennedys campaign announced Thursday that it exceeded the required threshold to be a 2024 candidate for the We The People party, certified by the Hawaii Office of Elections. The third party is expected to nominate Kennedy for the White House as an option in November, the campaign announced.
When I declared my independence from the two-party Washington establishment and announced my campaign for President, I knew it would be an all-out fight, Kennedy wrote in a campaign fundraising email with the subject line Exciting Ballot Update. I knew the Democrat and Republican establishments would stop at nothing to try and block my campaign every step of the way, he wrote while soliciting campaign donations.
Hawaii is the third state Kennedys team has confirmed meeting the election signature requirements, joining New Hampshire and Utah.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4498366-rfk-jr-qualifies-hawaii-ballot/
LiberalFighter
(51,196 posts)Making it 5,798 signatures.
I wonder if everyone that signed were residents of Hawaii?
walkingman
(7,673 posts)Cha
(297,850 posts)mahina
(17,721 posts)He will be clobbered.
Oopsie Daisy
(2,721 posts)* and his continued efforts only harm Biden which helps Trump ... which in-turn forever HARMS whatever cause he is fighting for.
It's insane.
BumRushDaShow
(129,737 posts)and wasn't even on the ballot for states that have already had primaries except NH (wasn't on SC, NV, or MI), I can't see how he can touch Biden.
Mz Pip
(27,454 posts)in the general and do what Nader did in Florida 2000, pull enough votes from Biden to hand Trump whe win in the swing states.
BumRushDaShow
(129,737 posts)and given his anti-vax stance, he is ripe to pull in anti-vax, never-45ers if he does get that far.
PortTack
(32,813 posts)Polybius
(15,512 posts)Nader got 2.74% of the popular vote that year. Maybe I'll be wrong, but I think he can top that.
LudwigPastorius
(9,202 posts)Name recognition alone goes a long way among voters who know little else about a candidate.
The average of 4 three-way polls taken since last December have Bob Jr. pulling an average of 15%.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden-vs-kennedy
womanofthehills
(8,792 posts)I think hes going for Michigan next.
BumRushDaShow
(129,737 posts)He's still not going to make any kind of dent when compared to an actual "established 3rd party" like the Libertarian Party, which itself far outstrips the other known "established 3rd party" - the Green Party.
Demsrule86
(68,735 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)IMO he is not a democrat but rather a libertarian who lives for smaller government, which cannot possibly cope with the complexities of our world nor offer solutions to issues such as Gaza/Israel, or Ukraine vs Russia, or climate change.
His answer to all these things is to assert that we don't need to solve them, and that they are too big and complicated for us to solve in the first place.
He is as much a false hope as Jill Stein, and backed by hidden Dark Money (Koch et al) with the agendas of the ruling class.
PortTack
(32,813 posts)14%. Once again, the press out there pushing for frump..directly or indirectly.
BumRushDaShow
(129,737 posts)The media is trying to manufacture "imaginary things for Democrats to worry about" to generate some kind of "excitement" when it comes to what is actually a boring subject.
womanofthehills
(8,792 posts)Scroll down to the second group of polls that includes 3rd parties. He has 7 to 15% in recent polls. Seems like he is taking from both parties - maybe a tiny bit more from Biden because when Stein, West and Kennedy are included in polls, its not good for Dems. Stein & West are taking one to two points each but will they be on state ballots?? Kennedy, Stein & West could affect numbers in important states. Very concerning.
https://www.270towin.com/2024-presidential-election-polls/national
BumRushDaShow
(129,737 posts)where even a "week" of news can change things on a dime.
"Polls" claimed that in 2022, Democrats would be demolished in a "Red Tsunami". Just. Because.
Their statistical models back then were flawed and will continue to be flawed.
Special elections where a Democrat flipped a seat (including the NY one for Santos' seat) were off by a % outside of any MOE.
E.g., - https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/house/2024/new-york/3/ ((D) up by about 4%, although the headlines were "it's CLOSE!!1!!11!!!!", and where in reality, the (D) won by 8%.
Demsrule86
(68,735 posts)won't vote third party.