Last week, Kennedy announced that he would remove his name from the ballot in swing states where his candidacy could be problematic for Trump.

“In about ten swing states where my presence would be a mood killer, I will withdraw my name. I have already begun that process and am urging voters not to vote for me,” Kennedy said last Friday.

However, election laws in some states stand in the way, and Kennedy cannot successfully remove his name from the ballot. The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted Tuesday to keep Kennedy on the ballot despite his removal requests.

He is currently on the ballot in several states, including three hotly contested states: Michigan, Nevada and North Carolina. In all three states, election officials have confirmed that it is too late to change the ballots.

On Tuesday, election officials in Michigan rejected Kennedy’s request to remove his name from the state’s November ballot. “Minor party candidates cannot withdraw their candidacy, so his name will remain on the ballot in the November election,” Cheri Hardmon, press secretary for Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, told Axios.

Under Nevada law, a petition to withdraw a candidacy must be filed seven business days after the August 9 filing deadline. Additionally, Kennedy is already on the ballot in more than 30 counties in North Carolina, and it is unlikely that he will be able to secure his withdrawal before early voting begins on September 6.

“Although the deadlines vary from state to state, the longer a candidate waits to withdraw, the more likely he is to remain on the ballot,” said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, in an interview with ^ “Washington Examiner”.

“If RFK Jr. wanted to withdraw his candidacy in all the states where he had already qualified, he would have had to withdraw in July, which would have been certain, or earlier in August at the latest,” he said.

Kennedy had decided to run as an independent last October, and his campaign team had spent a lot of time and money securing his place as a third-party candidate.

Before his announcement in Phoenix on Friday, Kennedy’s campaign had boasted that they had enough signatures to appear on 47 ballots and that they had gained official access in 22 states.

The third-party candidate has so far been able to remove his candidacy from the ballot in the key states of Pennsylvania, Arizona and Ohio. He has also managed to withdraw his candidacy in Florida, Texas and Georgia.

However, some experts believe he could challenge Trump in the swing states where his name will still appear. The last two elections were decided by one percentage point or less in the crucial swing states.

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“We know it won’t affect very many votes, but we also know that even a small number of changes could lead to absolute, sweeping changes in the election,” said Casey Burgat, director of the Legislative Affairs Program at George Washington University.

“It’s unclear how much his supporters will listen to his endorsement and accept it without question, or whether they’ll show up and see his name on the ballot and can’t help but vote for him,” he added. “The reason they’re pushing so hard to get him off the ballot is because they know it’s going to make a difference and a small difference in some of these important states might just be enough.”