and while he may not want to be on the ballot anymore Robert F Kennedy Jr may have no choice in North Carolina Kennedy withdrew from the presidential race last Friday and endorse Donald Trump now those decisions May mean very little though in a swing state that matters a lot Robert Kennedy Jr is his own party's nominee for president but Kennedy now says he and the We the People Party have withdrawn from the race and are endorsing Donald Trump but a verbal withdrawal may have no impact on the ballots in multiple swing States including North Carolina so far there has been no official notice of withdrawal to the State Board of Elections and a week from Friday absente ballots will be mailed out to registered voters I think the odds are very high that he's going to be on the ballot the state board has not received anything saying that he shouldn't be um so I think he's probably going to be on the ballot and I think he's probably going to get about as many votes as he would have otherwise according to the State Board of Elections more than half of North Carolina's Counties have already printed their ballots if we the people withdrawals Kenedy nomination the State Board would have to consider whether it's even practical to remove his name from the ballots and reprint them Western Carolina University political scientist Chris Cooper also says that third- party voters vote that way for a reason and that Donald Trump likely won't get much of a bump from Kennedy's withdrawal they motivate people to show up who wouldn't have otherwise shown up the kind of people who feel like the two-party system is not for them so I have a feeling for the vast majority of these RFK voters they may just stay on the couch as opposed to showing up and voting for Donald Trump if RFK Jr is off the ballot Kennedy originally tried to get enough signatures to get on the North Carolina ballot as an independent when he failed to do that he went a different route by creating a new party which has a different threshold of needed signatures Cooper says he saw red flags during my interview with Kennedy last January you need to get roughly 83,000 plus signatures um in order to do so correct I I'm not asking him like we this a quiz no he was clearly surprised by your question Ross he clearly didn't understand what it took to get on the ballot as an independent candidate that was an early warning sign that not only did was he running a campaign that was unlikely to win but he didn't even really understand the process himself president Trump