Tuesday News Round Up – America Is Waking Up to a New Political Reality – Independent RFK Jr. Is More in Touch with Real Americans Than Either Major Party Candidate
“I’m proud to say that my supporters include both pro-lifers and pro-choicers. They include climate activists and climate skeptics. They include the vaccinated and unvaccinated.” – RFK Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was interviewed on Fox and spoke at length about the attack on Israel – RFK, Jr. on Fox & Friends: Both Parties Are Controlled and Paralyzed
The leadership of AV2024 was at the Independence announcement and all over the media:
Mark Gorton, cofounder of American Values 2024, the super PAC supporting Kennedy’s campaign, said the candidate will need to prove viability to voters by consistently increasing his support in the polls in order to have a realistic chance of winning the election. He feels they’ve “got a shot” to pull off a historic upset. “I think it’s very important that Bobby a year from now be polling at the very least in the mid-to-high 30s in order to be seen as viable as anyone,” Gorton told CNN. “We need to be getting 1%, 1.5% of the electorate each month, but that’s a doable task.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president, ending Democratic primary challenge to Biden | CNN Politics
“Millions of independent-minded Americans are seeing through the most powerful censorship and propaganda campaign against any candidate in American political history,” said Tony Lyons, a cofounder of the PAC, in the press release. “They are angry at the DNC for attempting to disenfranchise them, eager to support an honest Democrat and more open than ever before in American history to an Independent and honest candidate.” – RFK Jr. super PAC raises $11 million within hours and courts Elon Musk’s support | POLITICO
“It’s clear that Bobby is inspiring a populist movement that unites left and right, black, and white, rural and urban, young and old,” Lyons said. “His campaign is a movement built for and by the people, not corrupt politicians, and corporations. You can see it from town to town across the country: There is real electricity and a palpable desire for change.” – RFK Jr.-linked super PAC raises $11M since announcement of independent White House bid | The Hill
RFK Jr. Super PAC Raises $11.3 Million After He Launches Independent 2024 Run | Bloomberg
More coverage of RFK Jr.’s announcement:
Robert F. Kennedy announces independent run for president | Today
Robert F. Kennedy is pitching centrism on health, even on abortion | Stat News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run for president as independent | Los Angeles Times
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent presidential run at event in Philadelphia | CBS Philadelphia
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Promises to Spoil the Election | The Atlantic
Some media are beginning to realize that RFK Jr. is a centrist, a flexible thinker who will focus on the middle class and “kitchen table issues”:
Robert F. Kennedy is pitching centrism on health, even on abortion | Stat News
Michigan Business Beat | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Talking the American Dream and Pocketbook Issues | Michigan Business Network
‘I Listened To The Other Side’: RFK Jr. Admits He Changed His Opinion On An Open Border | Forbes
The debate on who Kennedy “pulls from” continues:
For the record, I believe that your vote belongs to you.
More Kennedy News:
“Within thirty-seven hours of taking the White House, Joe Biden was censoring me.” – RFK Jr. – Why is this Presidential Candidate the Most Censored Man in America? | Charlie LeDuff
WATCH STEVE GRUBER’S FULL INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ROBERT KENNEDY JR. 📢🔥 | Steve Gruber
For this day only I will feature a few of the articles that want us to believe that Kennedy family members are now seeking trauma therapy because RFK Jr. had the courage to run for president as an independent against President Biden. I have not run these stories before (they appear every few days like weeds) because I do not regard them as being news. I present them now because I believe they say more about the publications that run these stories than they do about anything else. EVERY family in America has loved ones who have different thoughts on politics. If you are a clone and think exactly like everyone else you are related to, I apologize. RFK Jr. had plenty of family in attendance at the announcement who support his run. Those family members received no media attention.
RFK Jr.: Family’s response to departure from Democratic Party ‘very painful’ | The Hill
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Reacts To Family Denouncing Him | Huffington Post
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Siblings Denounce His Third-Party Presidential Run | Town and Country
Family relationships are complicated things. I recall seeing my father cry two times – when our grandmother died, and when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated.
My father was a Republican.
As expected, there was a wave of negative hit pieces about RFK Jr.’s independent candidacy announcement from DNC-aligned media. The usual band of yellow journalists emerged with the usual descriptors – “anti-vaccine advocate,” “conspiracy theorist,” etc.
RFK Jr.’s Independent Run Could Hurt Biden’s Chances in 2024 | Rolling Stone
RFK Jr. Is Running for President as an Independent, Ending Democratic Bid | People Magazine
How Republicans lauded RFK Jr. – before he was a threat | The Washington Post
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign is a climate disaster | San Francisco Chronicle
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president during Philly visit | Daily News
RFK Jr. Independent Run Means One Less Headache for Biden | New York Magazine
In addition to attacking Kennedy, this Slate article mocked the supporters at the rally – “The American political scion and conspiracy theorist championed solidarity among the partyless – and the paranoid.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign relaunch was a convention of the political fringe | Slate
There was a time when Rolling Stone and Slate were voices for alternative points of view and questioned the establishment. Now, they recite the DNC talking points to maintain an unjust status quo.
Aaron Rodgers takes on Travis Kelce and backs RFK Jr.:
Aaron Rodgers Challenges Travis Kelce To Debate Vaccine Safety With RFK Jr. And Fauci | Forbes
Aaron Rodgers wants RFK Jr to debate vaccine with him vs Travis Kelce – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Today’s batch of bad Biden news:
RFK Jr. Just Destroyed Biden’s 2024 Chances | American Insider
Wake the hell up Washington! America’s enemies are reveling in your weakness | New York Post
And what about former president Trump? I thought the comments of Kennedy supporter Karl Hagstrom summed up Trump nicely. Hagstrom came to Philadelphia from his home in Westchester County, New York. He said he supported Trump in 2016 and 2020, but said he plans to support Kennedy in 2024. He said he’s drawn to Kennedy because he feels the political outsider can bring unity to the country, unlike Trump, who he said has been too divisive. “Just the constant insanity, the tweeting, the negativity, the just out-of-left-field reactions to things. It’s not sustainable, it’s not something that can bring people together.” – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces independent run for president| CNN
We wrap with Chief Nerd giving us this marvelous commentary from the insightful and humorous Jimmy Dore on the PBD Podcast – Chief Nerd on X: “🔥 Jimmy Dore on Why He Is Backing RFK Jr in 2024 ‘A lot of the stuff he says is really important to me like his stance on COVID, lockdowns, authoritarianism and free speech.’”
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Some of the latest attacks on RFK are just too rich. Now claiming that he's something like a climate change skeptic and has abandoned his historical environmentalism. He's practically the only actual environmentalist politician on the left. The rest of the environmental movement only talks about one thing. CO2 levels. They don't talk about habitat destruction or toxins in the air and water anymore. Why would they? Their corporate masters greatly benefit from a single-minded focus on CO2. It allows corporations to continue to destroy habitat and dump chemicals in the air and water as long as they can pay farmers in Ecuador to plant some trees to offset their carbon emissions.
I am not sure about RFK Jr's Israel stance, as I tend to be a peacenik. I look forward to him fulfilling his promise to debate Blumenthal on the issue. However, every other big presidential candidate is also on Israel's side. And, for me, every other position he takes makes WAY more sense to me than anyone else in the field.