Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not appear on ballots in North Carolina and Michigan, appeals courts ruled in two separate decisions Friday. Election authorities in the two swing states previously decided that Kennedy's name would remain on their ballots, rejecting a request from Kennedy to withdraw from the race. Friday's rulings are good news for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. In North Carolina and Michigan, Trump polls better in a two-way race against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris than in a six-candidate race, according to polling averages from RealClearPolling. When Kennedy suspended his long-shot campaign and threw his support behind Trump on Aug. 23, he said that h