Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Qualifies For His First Presidential Ballot In Utah

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to appear on the presidential ballot in Utah after having formally filed with the state’s elections office on January 3.

Utah is the first state the Kennedy campaign succeeded in putting his name on the ballot. This state has also been a primary focus of the campaign in recent weeks as it helps to develop the plan to put Kennedy on the ballot in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Kennedy showed gratitude to the campaign staff and volunteers after filing his petition at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City. He thanked them for helping gather the 1,000 signatures necessary for independent candidates to file for ballot access in Utah. At the end of December 2023, the Salt Lake County Clerk’s office confirmed the campaign’s signatures.

“I have a lot of ties to this state, I love this state, and I’m very, very grateful for the role that these volunteers and the people of the state have played in this election process,” Kennedy claimed.

Kennedy even thanked Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson (R). The campaign sued her in December 2023, to extend the filing due date past January 8, 2024, Utah’s original filing deadline.

The state agreed to move the deadline to March 5, 2024.

Kennedy praised the volunteers who gathered signatures to meet the state’s January deadline.

“These volunteers went out and beat the clock anyhow,” he stated. “And we got them on time, and we got them in this very, very short period when there was snow, there was sleet, there was very bad weather. They did a spectacular job of getting our campaign on the ballot in this state.”

Kennedy cited recent polls, like the one from Quinnipiac University released in December 2023, showing that he was given 22% support in a hypothetical three-way race with Joe Biden and Donald Trump, indicating that he has a viable path to gaining the presidency.

The Quinnipiac University poll also showed that Biden received 38% support while Trump received 36% support.

“We’re very, very confident that that’s gonna happen,” Kennedy declared.

Kennedy expressed outrage at the application barriers that independent candidates have to endure in various states.

He focused on certain ballot access provisions in West Virginia, Massachusetts, California and New York.

“Some of the states have rules that are – it’s negotiating this labyrinth of these arcane rules that we now have in every state that are all designed to suppress dissent, to make sure that there are no options for Americans outside of the major political parties,” Kennedy said.

During an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt last month, Kennedy defended some of the claims he has made about Covid-19 and insisted that they were not meant to be antisemitic.

One of the claims Kennedy made was that Covid-19 was “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese individuals. Another claim he made was that the Covid-19 lockdowns were no different from Nazi Germany.

Kennedy’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was in the news recently when it was revealed that he had taken two private jet flights on his jet.