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(NewsNation) — After encouraging his supporters not to ballot for him, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received astir 594,000 (about 0.4% of the fashionable vote) and zero electoral votes.
RFK Jr. was connected the ballot successful each authorities but Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wyoming.
In precocious October, the Supreme Court rejected an exigency entreaty to region RFK Jr. from the statesmanlike ballot successful 2 battleground states.
Kennedy wanted to get disconnected the ballot successful Wisconsin and Michigan aft dropping his autarkic bid and endorsing Republican Donald Trump. He argued that keeping him connected violated his First Amendment rights by wrongly implying helium inactive wanted to beryllium elected president.
Michigan and Wisconsin said removing his sanction truthful precocious successful the predetermination season, with aboriginal voting already underway astatine the time, would beryllium impossible. More than 1.5 cardinal radical successful Michigan had already returned absentee ballots, and different 264,000 had voted early, authorities attorneys wrote successful tribunal documents. In Wisconsin, implicit 858,000 radical person returned absentee ballots.
The justices did not item their crushed successful an bid rejecting the exigency appeal, arsenic is typical. One justice, Neil Gorsuch, publically dissented successful the Michigan case.
RFK Jr. suspended his autarkic run successful August.
Kennedy said his interior polls had shown that his beingness successful the contention would wounded Trump and assistance Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Kennedy cited escaped speech, the warfare successful Ukraine and “a warfare connected our children” arsenic among the reasons helium would effort to region his sanction from the ballot successful battleground states.
Prior to Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 victory, Kennedy said Trump asked him to reorganize national wellness agencies similar the Food and Drug Administration oregon Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should helium triumph the 2024 statesmanlike election.
“He’s asked maine to cleanable up the corruption fig one,” Kennedy said during a town hallway with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo. “Number two, extremity the conflicts of interest, instrumentality those agencies to their affluent contented of golden standard, empirically-based, evidence-based science, evidence-based medicine, and to extremity the chronic illness epidemic successful this country.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
