Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has enough signatures to appear on the Nov. 5 general election ballot in Alaska and is listed as a candidate.
RFK Jr. is an activist, author and environmental lawyer. He has questioned the wisdom of mass vaccination programs and that questioning has led to some calling him a conspiracy theorist. He is the founder of Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine advocacy group that vaccine proponents say spreads misinformation.
Kennedy, age 70, is a son of the U.S. attorney general, U.S. senator, and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 in Los Angeles, while he campaigned for the presidency. He is a nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who was also assassinated, and he’s a member of a blue-blood Kennedy family, which is known to be staunchly Democrat.
During his campaign, President Joe Biden refused to assign Secret Service protection to RFK Jr. until after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Because CNN caved to the Democrats and would not allow RFK Jr. on the debate stage in June, Elon Musk, the owner of X/Twitter, ran a simulcast on social media with RFK Jr. answering the questions during the debate.
With the Democratic Party not giving him any way to make his case to Democrats, he decided to run as an independent. For Alaska’s November ballot, he was required to have 3,614 signatures from registered voters in Alaska.
Kennedy’s name will appear with running mate Nicole Shanahan.
At a Kennedy campaign press briefing last week (watch recording here), Kennedy Jr. announced the campaign has collected more signatures than any presidential candidate in American history — more than 1 million signatures. He said he will be on the ballots of all 50 states.
“They forced us to bear this ballot access expense and organize a tremendous volunteer effort,” said Kennedy at the ballot access press briefing. “It’s turned out to be a huge advantage in the upcoming election, as we now have more than 100,000 volunteers ready to get the vote out and win this election.”
“More than 50% of Americans now identify as Independents,” said Shanahan. “There has never been a better opportunity for a third-party candidate to have success, especially with a unity ticket. We are here to unite the country.”
The Kennedy-Shanahan campaign has now collected the signatures needed for ballot access in 42 states, totaling 480 electoral votes, 89% of the 538 total electoral votes nationwide.
Also appearing on the Alaska ballot will the name of radical leftist Cornel West, running under the banner of the Aurora Party, with running mate Melina Abdullah.
Oliver Chase is the Libertarian candidate who has made the Alaska general election ballot with running mate Mike der Maat.
Alaskans will rank presidential candidates on the ballot for the first time in history due to the new ranked-choice voting general election that was put in place by 2020’s Ballot Measure 2. Kennedy is more likely to peel away votes from Democrat presumptive nominee Kamala Harris than he will the Republican nominee Donald Trump, but he has an appeal to some who are disenchanted with the choices of the two main parties.
