RFK Jr's 'major announcement' was a slideshow asking Biden to drop out
Source: UK Independent
1 hour ago
Robert F. Kennedy Jnr, the presumptive third-party candidate in the 2024 presidential election, summoned the nations media on Wednesday to an office building in downtown Brooklyn, next door to Norms Pizza, to make a major announcement. Admittedly, the threshold for major announcements at this point in the campaign calendar, the dead zone between primaries and the conventions, is extremely low, but even by those standards, he fell drastically short.
What he delivered, instead, was a meandering PowerPoint presentation that he used to demonstrate that he was not a spoiler candidate (thats the term given to when one political candidate who will clearly lose draws enough votes away from another candidate to ensure their defeat). Given that spoiler candidate has become something of an unofficial slogan for Mr Kennedys campaign, he faced an uphill battle.
After an uncomfortable minute spent trying to find his opening slide, Mr Kennedy presented a dizzying array of maps and polls and tweets to make his argument. He brought to the screen a mammoth Zogby poll commissioned by his campaign, with a sample size of 26,408 people statistical overkill, in other words that showed president Joe Biden would lose to former president Donald Trump in a head-to-head race if the election was held today.
The same poll showed Mr Kennedy narrowly beating Trump, he said, in a head-to-head-race. He invited the press to check his numbers at (www.kennedy24.com/spoiler). The problem here, of course, is that Mr Kennedy is not the Democratic Party candidate, and unless he convinces the Democrats not to field a candidate for the first time in the partys history, head-to-head polls dont mean much.
Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rfk-jnr-trump-biden-campaign-b2538167.html
MacKasey
(1,006 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,953 posts)Was Four Seasons Landscaping not available for this dog-and-pony show? Where is Rudy when he really needs him?
cab67
(3,013 posts)I heard they sponged him up and drained him back into the jar of shoe polish from which he came.
tanyev
(42,725 posts)Blue Owl
(50,676 posts)RFKs only purpose is swaying over tRumps more stupid followers
lapfog_1
(29,252 posts)I will never vote for RFK Jr... even it was somehow the only way to stop trump.
He is a complete nutjob.
PatSeg
(47,833 posts)Hopefully, this isn't necessary:
ColinC
(8,363 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,139 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,607 posts)As it is, he's just accepted as a crazier version of MTG, without her sense of style or public speaking skills.
ShazzieB
(16,729 posts)Without that name, he would be nobody, and no one would care what he thinks about anything. (Not that many people care now, lol.)
mahina
(17,803 posts)He does not deserve the other name.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,008 posts)mahina
(17,803 posts)Lol
AZ8theist
(5,555 posts)FakeNoose
(33,016 posts)Many of us already have ...
liberalgunwilltravel
(345 posts)Something is seriously wrong with that boy.
myohmy2
(3,257 posts)...
Novara
(5,897 posts)SoFlaBro
(2,063 posts)SunSeeker
(51,902 posts)ShazzieB
(16,729 posts)OMG, is he ever addicted to conspiracy theories!
SunSeeker
(51,902 posts)onetexan
(13,095 posts)Privileged, entitled and unfettered selfcenteredness.
SunSeeker
(51,902 posts)womanofthehills
(8,827 posts)and has for 40 yrs. I dont think we should put Kennedy or Hunter down for their drug use - both losing a parent as a kid would be something you might want to escape from.
Rhiannon12866
(207,516 posts)kimbutgar
(21,323 posts)And I believe Steve Bannon is pushing him to run to throw the election to the orange maggots,
brooklynite
(95,183 posts)This is about a five minute walk. I would have gone for the entertainment value.
mahina
(17,803 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,347 posts)relayerbob
(6,566 posts)Last edited Wed May 1, 2024, 11:33 PM - Edit history (1)
Even if Biden dropped out, Harris, Newsom, or Whitmer would be drafted. Democrats would not vote for Kennedy, and the party certainly would not draft him, nor allow to run unopposed. The man is a psycho.
niyad
(114,186 posts)was 9, his father assassinated when he was 14. But that is no excuse for inflicting himself on the body politic.
dflprincess
(28,101 posts)baffle them with bullshit.
LiberalFighter
(51,585 posts)Long term effects? They don't seem reversible in the brain.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,902 posts)This douchebag is not one of them.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,338 posts)JohnSJ
(92,599 posts)his polls.
Traurigkeit
(579 posts)oasis
(49,564 posts)area51
(11,950 posts)Cha
(298,334 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,264 posts)byronius
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