Should we care about RFK Jr. and his new running mate?
Should we care about RFK Jr. and his new running mate?
The Kennedy conspiracy theorist, his VP pick Nicole Shanahan, and their potential to upend the 2024 presidential election, explained.
No.
He's talking about running as a Libertarian, which would pull more votes from Trump than Biden, imo.
Misinformation. Pulled straight from Wiki. “He initially ran for the Democratic Party nomination, but announced on October 9, 2023, that he would run as an independent candidate.”
He was talking about running as a libertarian recently. There was a news headline about it just a few days before I made my post.
Yes of course, I care deeply about comedy.
Nope - except in as far as I feel embarrassed by association from being a Massachusettsan... oh fuck, he was even born embarrassingly close to me.
Whoever loses is going to blame him.
Nah, Trump won’t admit defeat.
Rightfully so. He’ll probably end up a spoiler
Should we care about a nutter and … uhm who?…. ? No. We should not.
We should be concerned about losing people to 3rd parties, and simply not voting?
Absolutely.
YES! Because swing state polling shows Biden either tied or slightly losing to Trump when it's just them, head to head.
But the same polling shows Biden losing by a wider margin if you include Kennedy, West, and Stein.
3rd party votes will only help Trump.
Example:
Michigan:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/michigan/Biden/Trump - 50/50
Biden/Trump/Kennedy/Stein/West - 41/43/5/1/1Pennsylvania:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/pennsylvania/Biden/Trump - 46/46
Biden/Trump/Kennedy/West - 38/40/16/4Wisconsin:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/wisconsin/Biden/Trump - 48/52
Biden/Trump/Kennedy/Stein/West - 40/43/6/1/1Arizona:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/2024/arizona/Biden/Trump - 42/46
Biden/Trump/Kennedy/West - 33/37/18/2Exactly! Glad someone gets it
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has named Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer and ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate in his 2024 independent presidential bid.
“This is important because I also wanted a vice president who shares my indignation about the participation of Big Tech as a partner in the censorship, and the surveillance and the information warfare that our government is currently waging against the American people.”
Clifford Young, who leads Ipsos’s global election and political polling risk practice, said it’s too early to be certain whether Biden or Trump stands to lose the most from Kennedy’s rise, but if he actually received such a large share of the vote, he has real potential to be a spoiler.
Some of his family members spoke out against his anti-vaccine rhetoric: “He has helped to spread dangerous misinformation over social media and is complicit in sowing distrust of the science behind vaccines,” two of his siblings and his niece wrote in a 2019 Politico op-ed.
In a bestselling 2021 book, he accused Anthony Fauci, former chief medical adviser to Biden and a member of Trump’s White House coronavirus task force, of using the pandemic to organize a “coup against Western democracy.”
“Sure, he’s a crazy anti-vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, [rumored] steroid enthusiast, and tough communicator, but at the end of the day, his last name is still Kennedy, and I believe that will allow him to gain way more Democratic votes than Republican, so I think he hurts Joe Biden more than Donald Trump,” Rocha said.
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Picking a rich tech lawyer from California with no political experience is kinda like pulling out of the race, yeah?