The Messenger, an on-line national news source based in Florida, has this story about ballot access challenges for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Cornel West. It notes that according to their FEC campaign filings, Kennedy has not yet spent any money on ballot access, and West has not spent very much.
The story also mentions ballot access activity for President Joe Biden, but does not explain that ballot access hurdles for presidential primary candidates who are discussed in the news media is far, far easier. Except for New York Democratic candidates, none of these candidates need more than 5,000 signatures in any state. And in most states they don’t need any signatures.
Some states require a lot of petition signatures for the delegates of presidential candidates. Running without delegates is not worthwhile.
That is a good point, but I think only Ohio and New York are like that.
Cornel West is going to regret the day when he decided not to go with the Green Party.
He screwed up, or maybe that was the plan all along? LOL