To qualify, candidates had to be on enough state ballots to reach 270 electoral votes, or enough to win. They also had to receive at least 15% in four separate national polls, among those specified by the network.
Kennedy had reached that threshold in three polls, but was on the ballot in only 10 states, short of the 270 electoral votes, according to NBC News. The Kennedy campaign had said that it had enough signatures in 23 states, with 310 electoral votes. But those signatures still need to be verified by state elections officials.
Kennedy will have more time to qualify for the next presidential debate, scheduled for Sept. 10. ABC News is hosting that debate with similar criteria to CNN’s guidelines.
The last independent candidate to participate in a general election debate was Ross Perot, who took part in the 1992 debates along with Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. Perot ran again in 1996 but did not qualify to the debates that cycle.
You have to prove you can win before you can speak your piece? Has that ever happened before? I just don’t understand why they’re even waiting for November just hold the election now it doesn’t fucking matter either way.
Yea that happens every election. Only major party candidates get to be in the debate, they just tweak the wording of the hoops you have to jump through and keep adding more if you get through the first couple.
If he’d met every requirement they’d set forth, they would just add another one that was “and also the cable networking hosting rhe debate has to approve you”
how does america not a get a single vaguely left-of-center candidate polling more than 1%, but a third genocidal far-right freak not offering anything new gets nearly 15% that easily?
Literally just his family name.
Brain worms.
They are afraid of the Worm
Why does every picture of Bobby Jr. look like he had a witch whisper the exact date of his death into his ear?
It was actually the worm who told me after our consciousness had been joined.
On the bright side, you’re now fluent in ancient Egyptian and Goa’uld, which is nice
The witch Shogglith told me the time and place of my death, and it is not here, and it is not now.
Cowards
The likelihood of having to hear his voice decreasing is an objectively good thing regardless of any other factors.
They fear that his head will split open and the dune sandworm will come out and vore both Sleepy Joe and Drumpf.
This is fucking bullshit
Eat shit, anti Vax fucks lol
Trust the Worm
Good, his politics aside his voice literally hurts to listen to.
You choke down a handful of gravel everyday and see how good your voice sounds.
okay but are they banning the worm, too? rfk is just the vessel
Ah shit. So people still watch cable news huh
Thought we were past this
Diiiiiiid anyone actually expect him to be in the debate?
