Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that his campaign has collected enough signatures to get on the ballot in the battleground state of Nevada.
His inclusion on the ballot there could have a major impact on who wins the key swing state in November. President Biden won Nevada in 2020 by fewer than 35,000 votes over Donald Trump.
Kennedy’s campaign said it has collected more than 15,000 signatures in Nevada.
He issued a statement on Super Tuesday saying it marked the end of the primaries and the beginning of the general election.
“Nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a Trump/Biden rematch starting in 2020,” Kennedy said.
Kennedy’s campaign announced that he has collected enough signatures to get on the ballot in Nevada. The pro-Kennedy super PAC has said it has qualified to appear on the ballots in Arizona and Georgia
The pro-Kennedy super PAC American Values 2024 (AV24) has previously said his name will appear on ballots in Georgia and Arizona, meaning Kennedy could influence the results of the 2024 election in three crucial swing states.
The Kennedy campaign said it has launched an access plan to get him on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and has surpassed all its benchmarks so far.
Kennedy qualified for the Utah elections in early January. His campaign says he has also collected enough signatures to get on the ballots in New Hampshire and Hawaii.
The DNC filed a complaint with the FEC, accusing the pro-Kennedy Jr. super PAC of not properly disclosing the $10 million loan or that it had other “off-books” loan agreements. Democrats have also accused Kennedy’s campaign and super PAC of illegally coordinating to get Kennedy on the general election ballot
Kennedy previously launched his bid for the White House as a Democrat, but then switched to an independent presidential candidate
Earlier this month, the DNC filed another complaint with the Federal Election Commission, accusing the independent presidential candidate’s campaign of illegally coordinating with the pro-Kennedy super PAC to help him get into the general election.
The DNC claimed that AV24 has been working to collect signatures to get Kennedy on the ballot in key states in November, but that they will have to “integrate their spending” into the campaign in a way that conflicts with the federal election rules to do this.
On Monday, the DNC filed another complaint with the FEC alleging the pro-Kennedy super PAC for failing to properly disclose $10 million in loans.
The DNC alleged that AV24 violated federal law by failing to properly disclose $10 million in loans from billionaire donor Gavin de Becker, $9.65 million of which has since been repaid. It also accused the super PAC of failing to disclose whether it has other “off-the-books” loan deals with donors.
The Democrats claimed the loan agreement allowed the super PAC to inflate fundraising numbers and conceal the extent to which the super PAC is funded by major Trump donor Tim Mellon.
Democrats have argued that Kennedy’s campaign is being backed by Trump supporters to help him turn voters away from Biden and help the Republican ex-president in November.
In an average of the general election polls of Trump, Biden, Kennedy, Cornel West and Jill Stein, among others, Kennedy averaged just under 13 percent and led Trump by just under three points.