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
(1,009 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,956 posts)Was Four Seasons Landscaping not available for this dog-and-pony show? Where is Rudy when he really needs him?
cab67
(3,024 posts)I heard they sponged him up and drained him back into the jar of shoe polish from which he came.
tanyev
(42,818 posts)Blue Owl
(50,855 posts)RFKs only purpose is swaying over tRumps more stupid followers
lapfog_1
(29,281 posts)I will never vote for RFK Jr... even it was somehow the only way to stop trump.
He is a complete nutjob.
PatSeg
(48,048 posts)Hopefully, this isn't necessary:
ColinC
(8,399 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,159 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,611 posts)As it is, he's just accepted as a crazier version of MTG, without her sense of style or public speaking skills.
ShazzieB
(16,827 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
(17,878 posts)He does not deserve the other name.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,030 posts)mahina
(17,878 posts)Lol
AZ8theist
(5,609 posts)FakeNoose
(33,196 posts)Many of us already have ...
liberalgunwilltravel
(350 posts)Something is seriously wrong with that boy.
myohmy2
(3,291 posts)...
Novara
(5,914 posts)SoFlaBro
(2,186 posts)SunSeeker
(52,022 posts)ShazzieB
(16,827 posts)OMG, is he ever addicted to conspiracy theories!
SunSeeker
(52,022 posts)onetexan
(13,126 posts)Privileged, entitled and unfettered selfcenteredness.
SunSeeker
(52,022 posts)womanofthehills
(8,867 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
(208,257 posts)kimbutgar
(21,372 posts)And I believe Steve Bannon is pushing him to run to throw the election to the orange maggots,
brooklynite
(95,390 posts)This is about a five minute walk. I would have gone for the entertainment value.
mahina
(17,878 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,396 posts)relayerbob
(6,580 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
(114,455 posts)was 9, his father assassinated when he was 14. But that is no excuse for inflicting himself on the body politic.
dflprincess
(28,119 posts)baffle them with bullshit.
LiberalFighter
(51,921 posts)Long term effects? They don't seem reversible in the brain.
OAITW r.2.0
(25,030 posts)This douchebag is not one of them.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,416 posts)JohnSJ
(92,646 posts)his polls.