Robert F. Kennedy Jr. qualified for California's presidential vote. File photo: Jemal Countess/UPI
April 30 (UPI) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has qualified to vote in California, his campaign announced.
The campaign said in a statement Monday that Kennedy and his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, received the most electoral votes to officially appear on the state's ballot.
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The announcement came after the American Independence Party of California formally nominated him for president over the weekend and filed paperwork with the California Secretary of State's office.
AIP was founded in 1967 as a far-right party and nominated pro-segregation former Alabama governor George Wallace for president.
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer known as an anti-vaccine advocate, said in a nearly six-minute video that the party has long shed its hateful past and wants to “stand for compassion and compassion, rather than bigotry and hatred.” “We have been reborn as a party,” he said. Unity, idealism and common sense. ”
“When they learned of my candidacy, they wanted to create a new party where independent candidates could use their front for good to help unify America unencumbered by a two-party duopoly. “We had just drafted a new charter,” he said.
Kennedy went on to say that the party was “very impressed” with his campaign and its support base and approached him with an offer to be on the California ballot.
“I see this story as a symbol of America's return to a true populism of unity, peace, and prosperity, and its evolution beyond the divisive era of the presidency.” [Donald] “It's a return to the vision of President Trump and Kennedy, where the government serves the people, the people serve each other, and our country fulfills its idealistic mission as a model nation and an example of democracy around the world.” Ta.
The Kennedy-Shanahan ticket is officially on the ballot in California, Utah, and three other states, including Michigan. His campaign said it had collected enough signatures to gain access to the ballot in seven states: New Hampshire, Nevada, Hawaii, North Carolina, Idaho, Nebraska and Iowa.
