The July 13 incident in Butler, Pennsylvania, has brought increased attention to the denial of Secret Service protection for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. This Newsweek story says the Secret Service says candidates need to be at 20% in polls in order to obtain protection.
This Associated Press story says, “Despite numerous inquiries from the AP and other media, the Democratic National Committee won’t say whether it will keep the virtual roll call or when it will hold it.” The quote is quite a ways down in the story.
On the evening of July 12, the presidential nominees of the Libertarian, Green, and Constitution Parties debated each other. The event was in Las Vegas and lasted almost two hours. See it here. The moderators were Kentucky Congressmember Thomas Massie, and Christina Tobin of Free and Equal, which organized the debate.
Religion Unplugged, a news source that is part of the Institute for Nonprofit News, has this description of the religious affiliation of the presidential nominees of the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Green, and Constitution Parties, as well as independent candidates Robert F.. Kennedy, Jr. and Cornel West.
On July 12, Jill Stein submitted 11,500 signatures to qualify as an independent presidential candidate in Ohio. The requirement is 5,000.
