RFK Jr.: I’m Creating A New Political Party

As an independent candidate, my name doesn't automatically appear on the ballot no matter how many millions of people support me in the polls. Party officials wrote our current rules to protect the two-party system. They designed them to prevent independent candidates like me from offering voters an alternative to the failed leaders of the past. And they're especially draconian in states with the most electoral votes, states like California and Texas. This is a quagmire that I will help reform once I'm in office, but for now my campaign has got to work within the rules and find a way to overcome each of the hurdles that they constructed to keep you from voting freely in November. In many states, the law provides for two methods of getting on the ballot. First, you can do it as an individual candidate, or second, as the nominee of a new party. Each path requires a different number of signatures, depending on the state. In most states, it takes fewer signatures to put an individual candidate on the ballot, but in six states, the signature threshold is lower to put a new party on the ballot. California, for example, requires 219,000 signatures to put an individual on the ballot, but a new party wins ballot access with only 75,000 party registrations. That's still a big lift for most people, but we already have more than 70,000 supporters signed up in California, and I know we're going to blow their numbers out of the water. That's why our campaign has now filed paperwork for new parties in California, along with Texas, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Delaware, the other state in which this same math holds true. Now, you might be asking, is this a political party in the same way that the Democrats and Republicans are parties? Not even close. Our founders warned us that political parties would become breeding grounds for corruption and corporate cronyism. That's why I chose a name for my party that doesn't even include the word party. It's a name that encompasses all of us out there demanding our country back. I told the bureaucrats to call us We the People. These are the first three words in the United States Constitution, and they symbolize that our government draws its power from the citizens. This isn't a party. It's a movement, and it doesn't belong to Washington. It belongs to you. This movement will allow us to stand toe-to-toe with the establishment machine and remind the elite few that America is still governed by the powerful many. The corrupt two-party system has held back our progress. It's failed our families. It's put corporate corruption on steroids. If you want to bring free choice in our elections, you can go to our website and find out how you can help put my name on the ballot.