Struggling To Get on Ballots, RFK Jr. Teases Running on a Libertarian Party Ticket

‘That’s something we’re looking at,’ the Kennedy scion tells CNN.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. The New York Sun/Caroline McCaughey

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is considering running for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination. He previously sought the Democratic Party nomination before changing his candidacy to a third party independent run, where he has run into problems with ballot access. 

“That’s something that we’re looking at,” he tells CNN’s Michael Smerconish. “We have a really good relationship with the Libertarian Party. I am going to be speaking at the California Libertarian Party convention. … We’re talking about me speaking in New York” at the Libertarian convention.

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