Third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can remain on the ballot in North Carolina.
That’s after a Wake County judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit from the North Carolina Democratic Party. In the lawsuit, state Democrats argued that Kennedy’s We the People Party didn’t meet the proper definition of a political party, and was therefore ineligible to place their candidate on the ballot.
The We The People Party's sole purpose, attorneys for the state Democratic Party argued, was to get Kennedy on the ballot. They said Kennedy should have been placed on the ballot as an independent candidate — which would have required him to collect six times as many signatures.
The judge on Monday rejected that argument. The same day, a federal district judge also ruled that professor and civil rights activist Cornel West of the Justice for All Party must also be allowed on the North Carolina president ballot.
If the two rulings hold, it means North Carolina voters could have at least seven names to consider on the presidential ticket this November: Trump, Harris, Kennedy, West, as well as Randall Terry of the Constitution Party, Libertarian Chase Oliver and Jill Stein of the Green Party.
