As the vice-presidential nominee of two parties, Kennedy ran a campaign focused on the youth.[7] There were two different candidates at the head of the ticket, Roger Calero and James Harris; Harris was an alternate in some states because Calero was constitutionally ineligible because he is a lawful permanent resident of the United States (holding a green card), and not a US citizen. They were the first pair to qualify for the ballot in Louisiana[8] Calero/Kennedy won 5,127 votes and Harris/Kennedy 2,424.[9]
On February 12, 2016, Kennedy was announced as the nominee for president on the Socialist Workers Party ticket alongside Osborne Hart.[10] Kennedy is the second woman to be the presidential nominee of the SWP, following Linda Jenness.[11] She was on the ballot in eight states: Utah, Louisiana, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Tennessee, Washington and New Jersey.[12] The ticket received 11,743 out of almost 137 million votes cast.
In January 2019, Kennedy declared her candidacy in the 2019 Dallas mayoral election,[13] advocating for the improvement of the public transit system, a public jobs program to provide "union-scale wages", and for the Dallas Police Department to address claims of police brutality, pointing to the murder of Botham Jean as an example of such claims.[13] She received 469 votes (0.58% of the vote) which placed her last among the candidates running.
In February 2020, Kennedy was announced as her party's nominee for president. Her vice-presidential nominee is Malcolm Jarrett, an African-American activist and cook from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[14] The two kicked off their campaign with speeches at campaign headquarters in Dallas on February 8. The ticket received 6,791 votes, out of 158 million votes cast.
^Willis, Todd (December 1, 1985). 1985 West Virginia Blue Book(PDF) (Volume 69 ed.). Charleston, West Virginia: West Virginia Legislature. p. 662. Retrieved April 12, 2024.
