As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tries to get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states, he’s confronting fierce resistance from his opponents. Rebecca Davis O’Brien, who covers campaign finance and money in U.S. elections for The New York Times, discusses the high-stakes battle playing out behind the scenes.
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From the New York Times, I'm Michael Balbaro.
This is the daily today, as Robert F.
Kennedy Junior tries to get on the presidential ballot in all 50 states, hes confronting fierce resistance from his rivals.
My colleague Rebecca Davis Obrien has been reporting on the high stakes battle playing out behind the scenes.
Its Monday, May 6.
Rebecca, when we last spoke with you, which was in the fall, about what's really become your beat these days, Robert F.
Kennedy junior s presidential campaign, he had just made this very important decision to drop out of the democratic primary, which he decided he couldn't win and run as an independent.
But very much unresolved at that moment was whether, as an independent candidate without the infrastructure of a major party, he could really mount a serious campaign.
So what has happened since then?
Right.
So you might remember that when Kennedy began his campaign, I've come here today.
To announce my candidacy for the democratic nomination for president of the United States.
Back in April of 2023, he was really sort of a protest candidate.
They closed every business in this country.
For a year who was still really within the Democratic Party, but was pointing out, as he had been during the pandemic, some of the problems with the.