Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has collected enough signatures to appear on the North Carolina presidential election ballot, according to a press release released by his campaign on April 1.
Considered a key battleground state, North Carolina has 16 electoral votes. It represents the largest state for which Mr. Kennedy has secured a ballot spot to date.
In the 2020 presidential election, North Carolina was the fifth-closest swing state in the 2020 presidential election. President Donald Trump won the state with 50.1 percent of the vote compared to 48.7 percent for Joe Biden.
Since announcing last October that he would leave the Democrat presidential primary and run as an Independent, Mr. Kennedy has said multiple times that he would appear on the general election ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia….