Reform Party Nominates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for President

Posted on by May 24, 2024

On the evening of May 23, the Reform Praty nominated Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for President.  Although it is not now ballot-qualified in any state, it has completed all the requirements to become a ballot-qualified party in Florida, and will probably soon be recognized there.  Thanks to Eric Wong for this news.

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Reform Party Nominates Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., for President — 44 Comments

  2. So if Kennedy cracks 5% of the popular vote do all the minor parties who nominated him get a slice of the funding?

  3. Has he accepted the nomination? If I was running for President as an independent candidate I would try to petition my way onto the ballot wherever possible.

  4. “So if Kennedy cracks 5% of the popular vote do all the minor parties who nominated him get a slice of the funding?”

    An interesting question. That could trigger an FEC ruling, followed by voluminous litigation.

  9. I will always vote for a minor party candidate over a major party candidate.

  10. I will always vote for Trump over a non Trump.

  11. @Term Limits,

    Florida requires 145,000 signatures for an independent presidential candidate.

    A political party requires 3 people, a sheet of paper, and contributions or expenses of $500 per year.

  12. Being recognized as a party doesn’t guarantee presidential ballot access. And applying for recognition doesn’t mean getting it. However, they may be aided by the fact that it’s been a long time since the FEC defined who were the national parties, and back then the Reform Party was one of the few. Iirc.

  15. I hope Biden lets Ukraine launch USA missiles (before the election) into Russia and nuke war happens. I’m in a place near no targets and enough food to last two years while I laugh at the rest of ya’ll. Only thing I want to give Trump is the middle finger.

  16. If Biden does that, then Trump would give YOU the middle finger by becoming president 💀.

    People already associate Biden with “excessive war” and want to go back to the times when there was less war (when Trump was president) … and not to mention they want to go back to the times when there was a better economy (before Biden became president)

  23. John Taylor Bowles hides behind a fake name and IP anonymizer while promoting nuclear war.

  26. What place near no targets has a lot of Biden signs and no Trump signs? Bowles is full of crap, as usual.

  31. If the Reform Party of Florida is still with Alliance, then Alliance may back RFK Jr. as well. That will give him access to Connecticut, Minnesota, and South Carolina with Alaska as a possibility as well. With Florida, that would open up 59 electoral votes to his campaign. I tried to email Alliance about whether or not they will back a presidential candidate, specifically Kennedy, but they are not gotten back to me. That was over a month ago.

  32. Speaking of Alaska, is the Alaskan Independence Party still a thing? Have they nominated any presidential candidates since 2008?

  33. They are, yes. There’s also a California independent party and a Hawaiian independent party. Only the Hawaiian one has ballot access as far as I’m aware. The Hawaiian party is called Aloha ʻĀina Party and the Cali one is California National Party.

    The Alaskan Independent Party is mentioned on their website, though.

  34. I’m pretty sure Alaskan Independence generally does not have presidential candidates.

  35. It would be a bit hypocritical for them to nominate a candidate for a position of a country that they want to declare independence from, but they don’t have ballot access in general so they can’t even run for governor. They are just recognized as existing by Alaska.

  36. Having a US president would make it more plausible for them to be able to secede, although they would have to qualify in other states to do that. More realistically, having a candidate for that office gets them more media opportunity to push their cause, since nobody including them thinks they will win that office.

    Or, they can sell that ballot line – if or when they have one – etc.

  38. Sort of. There are Reform parties in Mississippi and Florida which are sometimes on the ballot, and states where they claim to exist but have not been on the ballot in a long time. New York recently had an unrelated Reform Party but no longer does. It’s definitely questionable whether any of those have anything to do with what Perot started anymore, but there’s an ancestry.

  39. Reform technically still exists in California, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin as well. Though I don’t know if they have any actual members or if it’s just on paper. They definitely don’t have Ballot Access. The last serious candidate they had would either be Trump in 2004 or Roque de la Fuente in 2020 when Florida’s Reform Party joined Alliance. After Perot, Reform mostly became the party of wackadoodles where every disgruntled member of every political leaning piled in as a big tent just to stick it to the major parties. Trump got what he wanted out of the party and went back to the Republicans. Now the Alliance, Forward, Unity, or No Labels parties are the most likely to absorb whatever is left of the party. Alliance has stalled out despite coming in 5th place in 2020. Since they have an LGBT Caucus, it may just be that people see them as a less interesting Libertarian party or as an unstable Big Tent Party.

  40. Trump was not the Reform candidate in 2004. He unsuccessfully ran for their 2000 nomination before dropping out. He didn’t run again until he successfully ran as a Republican in 2016.

  41. I always think it was after 9/11. I was 7 at the time, so I always forget. XD Thank you, but the rest I said is correct as far as I’m aware.

  42. No Labels was a one shot. They’ll be back in 4, 8 or 12 years and do the same thing again under a new name. They did it before as Americans Elect after aborted efforts as Unity 04 and Unity 08.

  43. I think No Labels really shot themselves in the foot by having the wife of Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, Mark Penn, as its founder, president and CEO. Sure, Penn later came to Trump and DeSantis’ defense, but Republicans are only going to remember his work for Clinton, while Democrats will never forgive him for speaking out against the Mueller report. His wife’s prominent involvement doomed No Labels to fail before it had even begun. And attempting to involve Chris Christie, who is equally hated by both sides of the uniparty, ensured that doom.

  44. Nah. Scam from start to finish. They ran it before, they’ll run it again.

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