Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign said it has turned in the number of signatures necessary to get on the ballot in New York for the Nov. 5 election.
The campaign announced it turned in over 135,000 signatures, three times the amount required for ballot access in the blue state. The autographs were delivered by volunteers Tuesday to the New York State Board of Elections office in Albany.
Mr. Kennedy wrote in an X post that he had “more signatures than any presidential candidate has ever submitted” in New York.
“The scale of this grassroots effort has been monumental and proves the strength of our ground game in a way many claimed was impossible,” Will Boothby, RFK’s Northeast regional field director, said in a statement. “In six weeks, the campaign has held two rallies, a college bus tour and hundreds of local events. More than 900 volunteers representing all 63 counties stepped up for this historic effort.”
He added, “The state of New York has stacked the deck against independent candidates in every way possible, combining the worst aspects of ballot access restrictions into one amalgamation designed to stop any candidate from achieving what we have achieved today.”
Mr. Kennedy, a Democrat-turned-independent, has been trying to get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states. His campaign has said it’s on the ballot in Utah, Michigan, California, Delaware, Oklahoma, Texas and Hawaii and has collected enough signatures in New Hampshire, Nevada, Hawaii, North Carolina, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, New Jersey and New York.
In the Real Clear Politics’ five-way matchup averages of polls among President Biden, former President Donald Trump, Mr. Kennedy, Cornel West and the Green Party’s Jill Stein, Mr. Trump leads with over 41% of support, followed by Mr. Biden with 39%. Mr. Kennedy is the only third-party candidate seeing support in the double digits, with 10.6%.
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