In the beginning, Kennedy’s actions were heavily reliant on grassroots efforts and volunteers, but now, the effort to gain access to stateis managed by petition circulator Trent Pool and his consulting firm Accelevate 2020, the campaign’s ballot access director Nicholas Brana, and the campaign’s ballot access lawyer Paul A. Rossi. Between November and the end of March, the Kennedy campaign paid Accelevate 2020 $389,000 for campaign consulting. A supporting super PAC has spent at least $2.
Kennedy has gained ballot access in Utah and Michigan and will soon gain it in Hawaii. The campaign has also collected enough ballot signatures to submit in six other states. However, the campaign is delaying its filings to election officials until just before the deadline, with the point of giving the Democratic Party less time to challenge the filings.
Rossi has already filed three lawsuits on behalf of Kennedy’s campaign that challenge signature collection rules in Idaho, Utah, and Maine.