I just had a neck beard guy approach me in a parking lot about signing a petition to put #RFKJr on the ballot. He said it's because #Biden sucks. I told him I believe in vaccines and told him to f*** off.
Dollars to donuts he was a former Bernie Sanders guy.
RW Media hosts (like #Hannity) are pushing #RFKJr HARD as a "Liberal Hero" who "champions the 'nutty' #liberal causes the Far Left adores" in hopes of him siphoning votes away from #Biden.
"Instead of living off MAGA fumes in a race he is unable to win, Sideshow Bob should just drop out.
There is no path to victory for Bob. None. Zero. Zilch.
Of course, Bob’s not in the race to win. He’s in it to steal votes from Biden in a desperate effort to try and help Trump win the election. His campaign admitted as much earlier this week."
"Bob is an egotistical blowhard who has no business running for anything in the first place. No qualifications. No experience. No track record.
And while at the moment Bob’s candidacy might seem to be attracting more Trump voters, his overall “plan” is clear: Try and trick Democrats into believing Bob is a legitimate alternative to Biden by using the Kennedy name—and the RFK moniker (which everyone should stop using)."
"Allies of Donald J. Trump are discussing ways to elevate third-party candidates in battleground states to divert votes away from President Biden, along with other covert tactics to diminish Democratic votes.
They plan to promote the independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a 'champion for choice' to give voters for whom abortion is a top issue — and who also don’t like Mr. Biden — another option on the ballot…."
I look at what's happened in Arizona and I flash back to Lora Kelley's report noting that suburban women in Phildelphia are taking a good look at RFKJr, because they can't go Trump, and Biden is too old.
It's easy to target white rural voters, but the problem goes way beyond them. What can those suburban women be thinking?! They really want to take a chance on helping Trump, so the whole nation can become Arizona writ large?
Kelley's article points to one by Elaine Godfrey reporting on why suburban women in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who call themselves "undecided" are finding RFKJr attractive as an alternative to Biden or Trump.
[CNN]: RFK Jr. campaign official (Rita Palma) attended Jan. 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally and wanted ‘favorite President’ Trump to run for third term
Andrew Kaczynski By Andrew Kaczynski
“A New York-based campaign official for #RFKjr who raised the possibility that voting for the independent presidential candidate would help #Trump defeat Pres #Biden previously promoted false claims that the 2020 election was rigged & attended “Stop the Steal” rallies after the election, including the rally on #Jan6”
"Any anti-Trump votes RFK Junior pulls away from Biden will only help Trump.
Democracy won by a whisker in 2020. Just 44,000 votes out of more than 10 million cast in Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin — less than half of 1 percent — made the difference between the Biden presidency and a tie in the Electoral College that would have thrown the election to the House of Representatives, and hence to Trump."
Hafiz Rashid reports that RFK Jr's NY campaign director Rita Palma says the game plan of the campaign is to benefit Trump: she stated,
“The only way that Trump can even, remote possibility of taking New York is if Bobby is on the ballot. If it’s Trump versus Biden, Biden wins. Biden wins six days, seven days a week. With Bobby in the mix, anything can happen."
But, sure, Biden's old and you need to vote "your conscience," etc.
@br00t4c
While #RFKJr's campaign manager doesn't actually say in that video that her goal was to elect T****, saying both Kennedy Voters & T**** voters share "a common enemy" in #Biden is tantamount to saying they are in agreement with #TheOrangeMenace.
And acknowledging that if they split the vote, a #GOP congress will elect #DarthTraitor which is "okay" with her, she might as well have just said it.
She admits their only goal is to "stop Biden" (who needs more proof RFK is #NuckinFutz?)
"Not voting at all, voting 'uncommitted,' or voting 3rd party (RFK, Jr.) gives the election to Trump, who not only wants Gaza eliminated or Ukraine turned over to Russia, but would also end all of the rights we have now that the Republicans haven’t already tried to eliminate.
We must VOTE BLUE all up and down the ballot in every state. Period."
"In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, House Intelligence Committee Chair, Republican Mike Turner of Ohio, finally agreed with what Democrats and many independents have been warning about for some time: Russian propaganda has made its way into the U.S. and infected a good chunk of the GOP’s base."
"Independent presidential candidate RFK, Jr. went on a podcast and parroted actual Russian war propaganda, including the false narrative that Russia had to invade Ukraine to 'de-Nazify' the Ukrainian government. …
Russia’s disinformation machine is in full swing for this election."
#RFKjr isn't just some quirky also-ran. He's a dangerous liar who thinks nothing of repeating discredited, #RussianPropaganda that's based entirely on #Putin's rhetoric. It's easily discoverable common knowledge that the things he's saying have absolutely no basis in reality, and are, in fact, overt #propaganda from America's enemies. What a shameful time to be a #Kennedy.
Americans must choose Biden. #TFG#RFKJr, West & Stein support Putin &...
3 minor party candidates are seeking to appear on the ballot. These candidates will hurt Biden.
West & Stein will each run from the extreme left & likely garner a paltry number of votes. Not all of their voters would support Biden, but they wouldn't support TFG. 2020: 44K votes in 3 swing states gave Biden the pres. Stein & West *with relatively few votes, could put TFG in the🚨WH. #BidenHarris2024 https://www.yahoo.com/news/rfk-jr-cant-win-cornel-092448658.html
I despise RFK Jr. His antivax bullshit alone makes him a villain with a huge body count. Now he is repeating Russian propaganda about Ukraine. Maybe he will start shilling crypto and LLMs to just complete the villainy.
No Labels, an R funded org., didn't need to find a pres. candidate bc Rs also funded #RFKjr.
RFK Jr's campaign fundraising email ref. to #J6 defendants as "activists" -"stripped of their Const. liberties," echoing TFG's rhetoric re: 2021 riot at the US Capitol.
Another reason to amplify how #RFKjr has been financed by Republicans & TFG's campaign; he's spreading dangerous Russian propaganda:
"Straight out of Putin’s talking points and out of RFK Jr.’s mouth — here he is saying Putin merely wanted to “de-nazify” Ukraine. Literally pure Putin propaganda for the invasion and war of Ukraine."
-A Parkhomenko