Robert K. Kennedy Jr. will be on Kentucky ballots for the November election. Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams confirmed via Twitter that Kennedy, an Independent, had submitted enough signatures to qualify. Stephen Voss, a specialist in voting and elections at the University of Kentucky, said Kennedy could siphon off voters who see the Kennedy name and decide it appeals to them.
“Even low-information voters likely know who Trump is, they know what the Democratic Party is, even if they don't know who's vice president, and they might choose the third option named Kennedy.”
Voss said Kennedy’s biggest impact may be fewer votes cast in down-ballot races.
“Because anybody who votes for RFK may not bother to continue on down the ballot, whereas, if they had been voting for Harris or Trump, they might have just hit the D and the R and populated a bunch of votes in the state and local races below it.”
Voss said some low-information voters likely won’t know Kennedy dropped out of the race nationally, though his name will be on ballots in several states, including a few critical swing states.
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