{"id":2334515,"date":"2024-08-30T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T22:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-keep-rfk-jr-on-north-carolina-ballot-to-hurt-trump\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T18:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T22:24:29","slug":"dems-keep-rfk-jr-on-north-carolina-ballot-to-hurt-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-keep-rfk-jr-on-north-carolina-ballot-to-hurt-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Keep RFK Jr. On North Carolina Ballot To Hurt Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-keep-rfk-jr-on-north-carolina-ballot-to-hurt-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2334515&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the North \u2062Carolina State \u200bBoard of Elections&#8217; decision to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the presidential ballot, despite his recent withdrawal from the race and endorsement of Donald \u2063Trump. This narrow vote, largely split along\u2062 party lines, has sparked accusations of\u200d &#8220;cartel&#8221; politics\u2064 from former Democrat Dennis Kucinich, who argues that the \u2064Democratic National Committee (DNC)\u2064 is trying to manipulate\u2064 electoral outcomes\u200d by keeping Kennedy on the ballot\u200c to siphon votes away from Trump. The decision has stirred \u2063controversy, particularly as the DNC had previously denied ballot access to Kennedy\u2019s party, &#8220;We the People,&#8221; when it appeared he\u2063 could draw\u200d votes away from Biden. Kucinich claims that the DNC\u2019s actions are silencing dissenting voices within its own ranks and claims to uphold\u2064 democracy while undermining it. The article highlights a broader\u2063 pattern\u200d of behavior by the DNC to protect its interests and maintain \u200bcontrol over the electoral process, citing Kennedy&#8217;s controversial\u200c stances, especially\u200d during the pandemic, as reasons behind his exclusion from the party.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Another day, another manipulation of democracy by the self-proclaimed defenders of democracy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat-led North Carolina State Board of Elections on Thursday narrowly voted to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the November ballot even though the independent candidate dropped out of the race a week ago, endorsed Trump, and has asked to have his name removed from the list of candidates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s more &ldquo;cartel&rdquo; politics from Big Democracy (aka the Democratic National Committee), says the former Democrat who managed RFK Jr.&rsquo;s campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t speak for the campaign, but on the one hand the DNC is trying to stop Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&rsquo;s access on the ballot and on the other hand they&rsquo;re trying to keep him on the ballot,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kucinich.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dennis Kucinich<\/a>, a former Democrat congressman from Ohio who left Kennedy&rsquo;s campaign in October, told me in a phone interview this morning. &ldquo;What this means is that the DNC is functioning as a cartel with interest groups that support it, and they don&rsquo;t want any competition.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As a result, said cartel, Kucinich asserts, is silencing the voices of what he sees as the working people base of the party, rigging the system and trampling all over democracy.&nbsp;Although it&rsquo;s difficult these days to see trees through the forest of freedom-killing leftists who talk about &ldquo;saving democracy&rdquo; from Donald Trump while eviscerating it in pursuit of absolute power.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Shifting Tactics<\/h2>\n<p>North Carolina became the latest state to balk at the Kennedy family scion&rsquo;s request to take his name off of the presidential ballot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As The Center Square <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/north_carolina\/article_305e3790-662a-11ef-8c75-43ac9e3801ef.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported,<\/a> the board&rsquo;s decision followed a last-minute, heated meeting called to consider removing the We the People party, nominators of Kennedy, from the list of presidential parties on the North Carolina ballot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The final vote on party lines was 3-2, with Chairman Alan Hirsch voting with two other Democrats to keep RFK Jr. on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/company-leading-arizona-recount-asks-court-that-procedures-be-kept-secret\/\" title=\"Company Leading Arizona Recount Asks Court That Procedures Be Kept Secret\">general election ballot<\/a> and the two Republican board members voting against.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a political calculation, pure and simple. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/rfk-jrs-exit-help-trump-according-polls-rcna167539\">Polls<\/a>, including the Kennedy campaign&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saradorn\/2024\/08\/29\/third-swing-state-rules-rfk-jr-cant-withdraw-from-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">internal tracking<\/a>, show his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/top-pollster-rfk-jr-s-endorsement-of-trump-could-be-the-difference-in-election\">presence<\/a> on the ballot in swing states would draw more votes from the GOP&rsquo;s presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, than the DNC nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Democrats on the board cited the &lsquo;impracticality&rsquo; of reprinting ballots as a key factor in their decision; mail-in ballots are supposed to be sent out in the state starting Sept. 6 and many counties have begun printing,&rdquo; The Center Square reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the same Democrat-led board denied We the People ballot access in early July when <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/30\/us-news\/trump-leads-biden-in-all-seven-swing-states-enjoys-wider-margin-with-rfk-jr-in-race-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">polling<\/a> suggested RFK Jr. might pull votes from the forgotten candidate, President Joe Biden. The PINO &mdash; President in Name Only &mdash; was forced out of his bid for a second term by the DNC and soft coup allies and replaced by Harris at the top of the ticket. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mailing-it-in-swing-state-ballot-lawsuits-could-shape-2024-presidential-race-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Swing State Ballot Lawsuits May Impact 2024 Presidential Race - Washington Examiner\">election board&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s decision was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/north_carolina\/article_598218bc-4389-11ef-8353-ffefd7f2e1bb.htmlhttps:\/www.thecentersquare.com\/north_carolina\/article_598218bc-4389-11ef-8353-ffefd7f2e1bb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reversed<\/a> a couple of weeks later, giving We the People ballot status in North Carolina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Democrat state elections regulators have pushed hard in recent days to keep Kennedy on other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-one-click-you-can-contact-vp-pence-senators-representatives-and-all-swing-state-legislatures-and-request-a-forensic-audit-of-swing-state-results-try-it-now\/\" title=\"IN ONE CLICK \u2014 You Can Contact VP Pence, Senators, Representatives and All Swing State Legislatures and Request a Forensic Audit of Swing State Results \u2013 TRY IT NOW!\">swing state ballots<\/a>, including in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/28\/dems-are-fighting-to-keep-rfk-jr-on-swing-state-ballots-as-potential-spoiler-against-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michigan and Wisconsin.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Radically Rigged&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Kucinich remembers a time not so long ago when the democracy champion DNC constructed a set of rules for the 2024 presidential primary campaign that made it impossible to challenge Biden, who was even then incredibly unpopular in his own party.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They constructed dozens of rules which created circumstances that made ballot access onerous, that stacked the deck in terms of actual delegate counts, that ran up the costs of participating for challengers and radically rigged the primary election in favor of President Biden,&rdquo; said Kucinich, an independent who&rsquo;s making another run at congress, this time in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/dennis-kucinich-house-election-2d876e4e8c49ecd800af8bc2adef570d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ohio&rsquo;s 7th Congressional District<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, the son of slain New York U.S. Sen. Bobby Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, also assassinated, is lividly hated by the Democrat Party machine. Though a leftist on many fronts, RFK Jr. earned the left&rsquo;s ire by challenging the despotic government lockdowns and Covid vaccines during the pandemic. He&rsquo;s also spoken out against Biden administration collusion with Big Tech to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-senators-overwhelmingly-condemn-putin-for-navalnys-death\/\" title=\"U.S. Senators Strongly Condemn Putin Over Navalny&#039;s Death\">silence opposition voices<\/a> like his &mdash; and Trump&rsquo;s. <\/p>\n<p>But his alliance with the Democrat Party&rsquo;s Public Enemy No. 1 was too much for Trump haters. So they are doing everything in their power to make RFK Jr. pay &mdash; including keeping his name on the ballot in an attempt to peel voters from Trump.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Think about this in retrospect. Kennedy starts out in pursuit of the Democratic Party nomination as a Kennedy Democrat, which means a lot to a lot of Americans. A force for the common man,&rdquo; the longtime politico said. &ldquo;When Kennedy ran as a Democrat, the DNC wasn&rsquo;t only unwelcoming, they shunned him. One of the biggest names in Democratic politics history was shunned instead of being welcomed and they had already stacked the deck.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Playing Spoiler&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<p>Dems celebrated their latest assault on democracy. The leftist New Republic <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/185473\/robert-f-kennedy-rfk-jr-plan-trump-swing-state-ballot-north-carolina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> sneered, &ldquo;RFK Jr&rsquo;s Genius Plan to Help Trump in Swing States Is in Shambles.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, The Intercept <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/08\/30\/rfk-jr-democrats-ads\/\">reported<\/a> that a &ldquo;Democratic Party-aligned political advertising boutique&rdquo; is behind two new political ads: one promoting RFK Jr&rsquo;s now-abandoned presidential run and the other describing him as &ldquo;the most dangerous man in American politics.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threepoint.com\/our-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Three Point Media<\/a>, which pitches itself as helping &lsquo;rack up wins for Democratic officeholders and progressive causes all over the country,&rsquo;&rdquo; including Michigan&rsquo;s far left Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Colorado&rsquo;s Jared Polis, be producing ads to help and hurt Kennedy, the Intercept asks in a piece published Friday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[T]he videos &mdash; which were shared with The Intercept &mdash; offer a rare window into how major-party operatives game out different ways to incorporate potential spoiler candidates like Kennedy into their messaging strategy,&rdquo; the story asserts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans do it, too, but they have at least tried to keep leftist spoilers who want to be on the ballot on the ballot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Democratic Party has been taken over by an elite group that is absolutely counter to the broader interests of Democrats,&rdquo; Kucinich said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day brings another instance of democratic manipulation by those who claim to protect it. On Thursday, the Democrat-controlled North Carolina State Board of Elections voted narrowly to retain Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the November ballot, despite his recent withdrawal from the race, endorsement of Trump, and request to remove his name from consideration. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democrat congressman who managed RFK Jr.&#8217;s campaign before leaving in October, criticized this as typical &#8220;cartel&#8221; politics orchestrated by Big Democracy (the Democratic National Committee). He noted that while the DNC is attempting to limit Kennedy&#8217;s ballot access, they are simultaneously keeping him on it\u2014suggesting they want no competition and are silencing working-class voices within their party.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina has now joined other states in rejecting Kennedy&#8217;s request to withdraw from the presidential ballot. The board&#8217;s decision came after a contentious meeting focused on whether to remove the We the People party\u2014Kennedy\u2019s nominators\u2014from North Carolina\u2019s presidential ballot list. The final vote was 3-2 along party lines: three Democrats voted for keeping RFK Jr., while two Republicans opposed it.<\/p>\n<p>This decision appears politically motivated; polls indicate that Kennedy&#8217;s presence could siphon more votes away from GOP nominee Donald Trump than from DNC candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Democrats cited logistical challenges with reprinting ballots as a reason for their choice since mail-in ballots were set to be distributed soon.<\/p>\n<p>However, this same board had previously denied We the People access when polling suggested that Kennedy might detract votes from President Biden\u2014a candidate who faced significant unpopularity even within his own party at that time. After some back-and-forth decisions regarding ballot status for We the People in North Carolina, state election regulators have also been working hard recently to keep Kennedy on ballots in other swing states like Michigan and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Kucinich recalled how not long ago, the DNC established rules for its 2024 primary campaign that effectively barred any serious challenge against Biden despite his unpopularity among Democrats. He described these rules as creating barriers for challengers and rigging delegate counts heavily in favor of Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy himself has become a target of disdain within Democratic circles due largely to his opposition during COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccine mandates\u2014positions which have put him at odds with many traditional leftist views despite sharing some common ground with them otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic establishment seems intent on punishing RFK Jr., especially following his alliance with Trump\u2014a move seen as unacceptable by many anti-Trump factions within their ranks\u2014as they aim to keep him on ballots potentially affecting Trump&#8217;s voter base.<\/p>\n<p>In an ironic twist reflecting political strategy rather than genuine concern for democracy or fairness, leftist media outlets have celebrated moves against Kennedy while simultaneously producing ads both promoting him and labeling him dangerous\u2014all part of an effort by major-party operatives trying different tactics regarding potential spoiler candidates like him.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately Kucinich argues that an elite faction has taken control over what was once a broader Democratic Party interest group structure contrary to its foundational values<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2334516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-30-at-1.39.18-PM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[7386,3933,32258,32458,3634],"class_list":["post-2334515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-ballot","tag-dems","tag-north-carolina","tag-rfk-jr","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Screenshot-2024-08-30-at-1.39.18-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}