Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has expressed confidence that he would secure ballot access in all 50 states, despite facing legal challenges over ballot access in several states.
“We’ve handed most of them in, some of the states are not yet certified, but we’re gonna be on the ballot in all 50 states, for sure,” Kennedy told the news outlet.
“A lot of the states, don’t certify until mid-August. We’ve turned in our signatures, the signatures have been accepted, and they’re going to be certified,” he said. “Nobody could be on more ballots than we are right now.”
Kennedy said that his challenge is to “persuade Americans” of his ability to win, addressing concern about wasting a vote on a third-party candidate.
“I’ve got the entire media, kind of this monolithic media, that is aligned with the DNC [Democratic National Committee] telling Americans every single day that I can’t win, and then denying me the ability ... this is the only network, major network, that allows me to do interviews like this one,” he said, adding that he had only done four interviews on other networks in the span of 19 months.
These states include Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Vermont.
His campaign announced on Aug. 9 that it had submitted 19,000 signatures to gain ballot access in the District of Columbia, which is more than four times the required number. Kennedy has so far gathered the necessary signatures to appear on the ballot in 46 states, it stated.
Kennedy initially ran for the Democratic Party nomination. After encountering multiple roadblocks from the DNC and claiming that the organization was “rigging the primary” to favor President Joe Biden and prevent other candidates from competing, he chose to run as an independent in October 2023.
