Goofed on earlier thread. I meant Robert F. KennedyJR running for President Will it hurt Joe or TFG?

[bluestarone]

Totally against his running here. Who will it affect the most?

[JenniferJuniper]

1. I don't think it hurts anyone.

[Celerity]

2. no one, he is running as Dem in the primary with ZERO chance of winning shit

[bluestarone]

4. Agree

[MineralMan]

3. I doubt it will have any effect whatsoever.

I also doubt he will actually do it.

[GuppyGal]

5. This race car is gonna run outta gas long before the finish line. nt

[rsdsharp]

23. I doubt it's gonna get out of the pits.

[hardluck]

6. Neither

He’s a whack job that won’t have any effect and will fade shortly.

[dalton99a]

7. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will hurt Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

[bluestarone]

9. Good answer!

[LakeArenal]

12. Winner.

[FarPoint]

8. He hurts the Kennedy legacy .

He hurts himself too...Delusional and a hint of being pathetic...

[OhNo-Really]

10. Goofed again It's RFK Junior

https://wsvn.com/news/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-files-paperwork-to-run-for-president-as-a-democrat/

He appears to be a sadly conflicted man. I can’t imagine the trauma of having lost Uncle John, Father Robert, and cousin John Jr

That said, this is what his family members have said about RFK Jr

“ In 2019, three members of his family — his sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, brother Joseph P. Kennedy II and niece Maeve Kennedy McKean — forcefully denounced his anti-vaccine views in a Politico Magazine op-ed, arguing that he was “part of a misinformation campaign that’s having heartbreaking — and deadly — consequences.”

In 2022, Kennedy Jr. invoked Nazi Germany in an anti-vaccine speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. The previous year, Instagram took down his account “for repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.”

[bluestarone]

13. TY.

Fixed it.

[kimbutgar]

11. Once people find out he is controlled by Bannon, Stone and Flynn he will be disqualified as

A viable Democratic candidate. Plus his voice is annoying.

[Ocelot II]

14. Nobody except himself. He's a crackpot.

To the extent anybody votes for him it will be a few of the lunatic anti-vax fringe, which these days skews right - though there's a small left-wing crystals and homeopathy woo crowd that might buy what he's selling (including, apparently, Dennis Kucinich, who seems to have beamed down from whatever galaxy he's been hanging out in). He might be some minor competition for the other crackpot, Marianne Williamson. But I wouldn't worry about him.

[303squadron]

15. RFK Jr is the real life Connor Roy

He'll put $100 million into polling at 1%.

[Demsrule86]

16. Kennedy is going nowhere...and won't hurt Biden...he was asked to run by Bannon.

[Eugene]

17. Looks like a right-wing distraction aimed at conspiracy mongering against Biden.

Not sure how it can succeed.

Steve Bannon is behind this, and RFK Jr. is also associated with Roger Stone and Michael Flynn.

Link to tweet

From Vanity Fair: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Presidential Bid Is Doomed to Fail. But That’s Not the Point

... Kennedy also has ties to other shady figures in Donald Trump’s orbit: In July 2021, as the right’s hysteria over COVID-19 vaccines was in full swing, a photo shared on Instagram showed Kennedy posing with Roger Stone, the notorious “dirty trickster” of the Republican Party, and Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser turned QAnon influencer. The picture was reportedly taken at an event hosted by ReAwaken America, a Christian nationalist touring group made for and by QAnon followers, anti-vaxxers, and election deniers––a crowd that, needless to say, has very little overlap with the Democratic voters Kennedy would need to win in a primary bid.

It is more than likely, then, that Kennedy is part of an oddball right-wing plot to pester Biden in what could otherwise be a mostly uncontested primary. ...

[Fiendish Thingy]

18. Neither. He won't get past the first couple of primaries, will lose, and disappear. Nt

[Hortensis]

19. Will an unworthy candidate running as a Democrat hurt the Democratic Party?

I really want us to officially acknowledge our respect and gratitude for the vast range of Americans represented by those offering themselves to the electorate through the Democratic Party -- while culling the pack very early on to those who meet our serious, responsible and ideologically committed party standards for our presidential candidates.

Five was too few in 2016. Over two dozen in 2020, including some antithetical to the goals and ideals of over 80M voting liberal Democrats, was...appalling.

[Generic Brad]

20. It will only hurt RFK Jr

He will lose soundly, definitively, and embarrassingly.

[Lettuce Be]

21. I will not affect anyone. It's a joke.

The 40 or so votes he gets won't make any difference. If Bannon is involved, it's a scam.

[Mr. Ected]

22. Both equally

They both stand to lose one vote each.

[brooklynite]

24. The key point is that he CAN'T run in the General Election...

...if he loses in the Primary. So it doesn't matter who he would draw votes from.

(see: "sore loser" laws)