RENO (US): Nevada election officials verified enough signatures for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to appear on the Nevada ballot, the state’s top election official confirmed on Friday, likely bringing his insurgent quest to shake up Republican and Democratic dominance of US elections to a crucial battleground state.
Kennedy has gained traction with a famous name and a loyal base, and he has the potential to do better than any independent presidential candidate in decades.Strategists from both parties fear he could tip the election against them, though a big blow to his campaign came when he did not qualify for the CNN debate in June. Instead, he held a separate event where he responded in real time to the questions that were posed to Biden and Trump.
There still could be room for legal challenges. Kennedy Jr picked California lawyer and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan as his running mate in late March. State and county election officials verified over 22,000 signatures on the new petition, well over the requirement of just over 10,000. ap