Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will no longer appear on the ballot in the critical swing states of Michigan and North Carolina — despite Democrats feverishly trying to keep the former independent presidential candidate, who has now endorsed Donald Trump, on the ticket.

State courts of appeal in both battlegrounds honored RFK Jr.’s request to be removed from the ballot, which Democrats have been vehemently fighting ever since the independent’s August 23 withdrawal and subsequent endorsement of the Republican nominee.

Notably, Democrats’ fight to keep Kennedy on the ballot comes after many months of fighting against ballot access for the Kennedy campaign, which RFK Jr.’s former running mate Nicole Shanahan cited as a reason for their then-impending Trump endorsement.

In Michigan, Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said her hands were tied, and the state’s election law doesn’t allow third-party candidates to withdraw.

On Friday the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled otherwise, and a three-judge panel ordered that Kennedy’s request be honored.

His name will be removed just weeks before the first absentee ballots are available to Michigan voters on Sept. 26.

“We conclude that the absence of any statutory authority prohibiting his (Kennedy’s) withdrawal gave plaintiff a clear legal right to have his name removed from the ballot. Defendant (Benson) had no ability to disregard that request,” ruled the appeals court.

Down south, North Carolina’s court of appeals also sided with Kennedy, and as a result the state will reprint 130,000 requested mail-in ballots to voters who registered with the We the People Party, which the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket originally formed to gain ballot access in several states.

Ballots in the Tarheel State were supposed to be mailed out by local registrars on Sept. 6.

That date is also the deadline for Benson to send a list of candidates to county clerks — two weeks prior to when Michigan’s first absentee ballots will be distributed.

Opposition to Kennedy’s removal came not just from Democrats, but also members of his own party.

In Michigan Kennedy ran as the Natural Law Party candidate, and his withdrawal there risks the party’s ability to meet the threshold to appear on the ballot in 2028.

Doug Dern chairs Michigan’s Natural Law Party and is running as their candidate for Senate this year. He fears that stripping Kennedy from this November’s ballot will harm the third party.

“If the state were to allow Kennedy to withdraw from the ballot, the Natural Law Party would not be able to replace him with another candidate, jeopardizing the party’s appearance on future ballots since it needs to win at least 1% of the total number of votes cast for the last winning secretary of state candidate to re-qualify for future elections,” The Detroit News reported.

Benson’s office told The Post that the secretary will be appealing the decision in the Michigan Supreme Court. 

In his campaign withdrawal speech at an Arizona rally last month, Kennedy endorsed Trump and noted that, to his own surprise, he and the Republican nominee “are aligned on many key issues.”

Kennedy has since been in the process of removing his name from ballots in battlegrounds where he could be a spoiler in the contest between Trump and Kamala Harris.

Before dropping out, Kennedy qualified for the ballot in 24 states, including the swing states of North Carolina, Michigan, and Nevada.