Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he has enough signatures to get onto the ballot in Texas.
Mr. Kennedy and his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, turned in 245,572 signatures — more than double the 113,151 required to get on the Lone Star State’s ballot.
The campaign said the feat was done in two months.
“It’s official. Kennedy-Shanahan on Texas ballot! By collecting nearly a quarter of a million signatures in just two months, the campaign has shown it can overcome the most difficult ballot access requirement in the country,” Stefanie Spear, press secretary for the Kennedy campaign, posted Monday on X.
The campaign said Mr. Kennedy is the first independent presidential candidate to make it onto the Texas ballot since Pat Buchanan in 2000.
Mr. Kennedy, a Democrat-turned-independent, has been trying to get on the ballot in all 50 states. His campaign has said it is officially on the ballot in Utah, Michigan, California, Delaware, Oklahoma and now Texas, and has collected enough signatures in New Hampshire, Nevada, Hawaii, North Carolina, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa and Ohio.
Mr. Kennedy is the only third-party candidate with double-digit support in Real Clear Politics’ five-way matchup average of polls between President Biden, former President Donald Trump, Jill Stein of the Green Party, independent candidate Cornel West and Mr. Kennedy.