OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
10:52 AM – Thursday, November 7, 2024
Incoming reports on Wednesday night showed that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who appeared on 33 ballots despite withdrawing his Independent presidential bid and telling voters to not choose him, received 594,000 votes, or roughly 0.4% of the total number of popular votes.
In every state but Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wyoming, Kennedy—who first ran as a Democrat before switching to run as an Independent—was listed on the ballot, according to The Hill.
In October, Kennedy’s request to have him taken off the ballots in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan was denied by the Supreme Court.
After abandoning his Independent candidacy to support former President Donald Trump in August, Kennedy argued that it was a violation of his First Amendment rights to retain him on the ballots since it suggested he was still interested in running for president.
The states claimed that since early voting had already started, it would be impossible to take him off the ballots. More than 858,000 absentee ballots were returned in Wisconsin, and over 1.5 million absentee ballots and 264,000 early votes were returned in Michigan.
Forbes reported that on Monday, Kennedy again pleaded on X (Twitter) for voters to not choose him, even if he was still on their ballots. According to Kennedy, his goals shifted, and he reiterated to his supporters that Donald Trump was truly the right man for the job.
“No matter what state you live in, you should be voting for Donald Trump,” Kennedy said in his video. “Let me tell you why. That’s the only way that we can get me and everything I stand for into Washington, D.C., and fulfill the mission that motivated my campaign.”
According to the polls, however, Kennedy had devoted fans in Michigan and Wisconsin long after he left the race.
Kennedy was still garnering 3% support, but Harris was ahead of Trump at 48% to 45%, according to a poll for the Detroit Free Press done by PIC-MRA.
Additionally, according to the outlet The Free Press, 6% of Independents and 5% of Republicans in the survey stated they backed Kennedy.
A Marquette University Law School poll conducted from October 16-24 and released October 30th also showed that in Wisconsin, Kennedy was picked by 5% of the voters who were polled.
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