Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is no doubt throwing a temper tantrum behind closed doors after independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decided to drop out of the race and endorse former President Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, last week. This is very bad news for Harris as it means there are massive changes coming to the ballots being featured in key battleground states.
According to Trending Politics News, one of those states is Nevada where a batch of polls taken before RFK bailed out revealed that she was enjoying a lead of one percent.
Factor in that Kennedy was pulling 4% of voters polled in early August, and Harris is on track to lose the Sun Belt state in November. Left unmentioned is the frequent tendency by pollsters to underestimate Trump’s level of support by several percentage points, as evidenced in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. KTNV Las Vegas reported on Wednesday that state election officials have removed RFK from the November ballot, narrowing the choices voters have for president. Kennedy, who endorsed Trump after dropping out last Friday, previously qualified for the ballot and publicly feuded with Democratic Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar over allegedly failing to follow state laws when submitting signatures on nomination petitions. A lawsuit filed by two voters, including Aguilar, sought to keep Kennedy off the ballot as well.
Still, Trump and Harris won’t have the race to themselves. Nevada voters will be given options for president by the Libertarian, Independent American and Green parties as well as an option for “None of these Candidates.” The latter has been frequently chosen by far-left activists upset at Harris and President Biden over the administration’s failure to recognize Israel’s war in Gaza as a “genocide” against Palestinians. During last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, protestors promised to continue blanking their ballots if Harris did not change course in U.S. support for Israel.
At this point, we can’t be sure that Kennedy’s name will be pulled from every other battleground state where Harris has a small lead according to the data. A Fox News report revealed that Kennedy will not be able to pull his name off the ballots in both Wisconsin and Michigan, which could pose a threaten to Trump’s ability to win those states. Many of these states were barely won by the former president in 2016 and were lost just four years ago. Now Kennedy is a part of Trump’s transition team, he revealed he’s reaching out to allies in these important swing states as he continues to urge his supporters to come and support Trump for president.
“In about 10 battleground states where my presence would be a spoiler, I’m going to remove my name, and I’ve already started that process and urge voters not to vote for me,” Kennedy said in comments delivered the outlet in the article’s conclusion. “Our polling consistently showed by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues.”
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