RFK Jr arrives too late to testify after Democrats’ court challenge to keep him off Pennsylvania ballot

Robert F Kennedy Jr was too late to testify in court against a challenge from Democrats attempting to block him from the ballot in Pennsylvania.

Attorneys for two Democratic activists challenging Kennedy’s spot on the ballot said in a Harrisburg courtroom on Tuesday that Kennedy’s candidacy paperwork has a fake home address. Similar allegations are being heard in other state courts.

They also argued that the third-party candidate hasn’t gathered the required number of signatures.

Citing a canceled flight from Boston to Philadelphia the evening before, Kennedy showed up an hour and 40 minutes late. Commonwealth Court Judge Lori Dumas had earlier decided to continue without his testimony.

Just after his arrival, the hearing was adjourned without the judge indicating when she would rule on the matter.

Kennedy could snag votes from Vice President Kamala Harris or former president Donald Trump if he were to appear on the ballot in Pennsylvania, a critical battleground with 19 electoral votes. Trump won the state in 2016 but President Joe Biden won it back in 2020.

The attorney for Kennedy slammed the judge’s move to continue without the candidate’s testimony. Kennedy claimed that the Democrats are trying to block the rights of tens of millions of voters.

“To me, it’s a sad devolution of this party that the only way that they can win elections is to keep its opponents off the debating stage, off the ballots, and use lawfare to try to win elections rather than campaigning,” he said outside the courthouse.

“I’ll be on the ballot in every state,” he added.

The Kennedy campaign has called the challenge “frivolous” and Kennedy lawyer Paul Rossi said that a state shouldn’t be in the business of banning a candidate from its