According to this story, J. D. Vance voted for independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin in November 2016. He said this in 2021 in an interview with Time Magazine.
McMullin was on the ballot in 2016 in Kentucky. In Ohio he was a declared write-in candidate and he was credited with 12,574 votes. It is not clear which state Vance lived in at the time.
The mention of his 2016 vote is under “Vance’s Political Turn” in the first paragraph.
This NPR/PBS Newshour Poll shows that when only Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are mentioned, Trump leads by one point. But when the poll includes Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, Jill Stein, Chase Oliver, and Cornel West, Trump and Harris are tied.
Reuters seems to have conducted to first poll for president listing Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. When only Donald Trump and Harris are mentioned, Harris leaders Trump by two points. But when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is included, Harris leads Trump by four points, with Kennedy at 8%. See here.
A New Jersey state trial court will hear Salmon v Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Friday, July 26. This is a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey voter to keep Kennedy off the general election ballot as an independent. The challenger says that Kennedy can’t be on the ballot because he got some write-ins in the June 4, 2024 Democratic presidential primary, and therefore he is a “sore loser”.
Kennedy responds that he didn’t file a petition to be on the June primary ballot and is therefore not a “sore loser”. He also says there are procedural objections to the lawsuit. Kennedy’s brief does not mention the fact that New Jersey’s sore loser law has been held not to apply to presidential primaries. Both Lyndon LaRouche (in 1992) and David Duke (in 1988) did petition to be on the Democratic primary ballot, and then also petitioned to be on the general election ballot as independents.
The case is in Mercer Superior Court, MER-L241-24.
On July 23, U.S. District Court Judge Bridget M. Brennan, a Biden appointee, issued an opinion in League of Women Voters of Ohio v LaRose, n.d., 1:23cv-2414. It strikes down a 2023 Ohio law that makes it a felony for anyone except a relative or a postal employee to take a voted absentee ballot and deliver it to an election office or a postal collection box. One of the plaintiffs is a disabled person who wanted her caregiver to deliver the ballot. The opinion finds the law to violate the federal Voting Rights Act.
