TALLAHASSEE, FL– He Reform Party received today a Notice That the Florida Division of Elections has recertified its party status by granting the independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. access to ballots in the Sunshine State.
“We are thrilled to give Floridians an independent option this November,” said Florida Reform Party Chairwoman Jenniffer Desatoff. “We have been eagerly waiting to collaborate with the Kennedy Campaign here in Florida and make history together.”
Two weeks ago, the Reform Party’s National Committee voted to nominate Kennedy, giving him access to the ballot in Florida and giving him major fundraising advantages.
Currently, people can donate a maximum of $6,600 to the campaign. With the Reform Party nomination, the party will be able to raise an additional $41,300 from individual donors and spend it in coordination with the campaign to support Kennedy. The party contribution limit is more than six times the campaign contribution limit, which supercharged Kennedy’s fundraising.
The Reform Party was founded in 1996 by supporters of Ross Perot, the most successful independent candidate in the last century before Kennedy’s candidacy. Party rules require that it nominate a presidential candidate, who then chooses his vice presidential candidate. Kennedy accepted the Reform Party nomination and chose Nicole Shanahan as his running mate.
The campaign’s aggressive ballot access operation will ensure that the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket is on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The ballot access operation is fully funded with more than $15 million raised.
The Kennedy-Shanahan ticket is officially on the ballot in nine states: Utah, Michigan, California, Delaware, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Texas, South Carolina and now Florida.
It has collected enough signatures to access ballots in nine other states: New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, New Jersey and New York.
The Kennedy-Shanahan campaign has collected the signatures necessary for ballot access in 18 states, totaling 268 electoral votes, 49% of the 538 total electoral votes nationwide. Florida adds 30 electoral votes.
May 1st, the kennedy campaign published the results of a survey by Zogby that showed Kennedy beating Presidents Biden and Trump in head-to-head matchups. Trump handily defeats Biden. Kennedy defeats President Trump in a race between two sides, by a narrow margin. In a two-way race between Kennedy and President Biden, Kennedy wins in a landslide. Kennedy is the first independent to defeat both major party candidates in head-to-head matchups.
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Source: Press release
