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
(3,023 posts)I heard they sponged him up and drained him back into the jar of shoe polish from which he came.
tanyev
(42,797 posts)Blue Owl
(50,805 posts)RFKs only purpose is swaying over tRumps more stupid followers
lapfog_1
(29,273 posts)I will never vote for RFK Jr... even it was somehow the only way to stop trump.
He is a complete nutjob.
PatSeg
(48,015 posts)Hopefully, this isn't necessary:
ColinC
(8,397 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,157 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,610 posts)As it is, he's just accepted as a crazier version of MTG, without her sense of style or public speaking skills.
ShazzieB
(16,813 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
(17,869 posts)He does not deserve the other name.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,028 posts)mahina
(17,869 posts)Lol
AZ8theist
(5,589 posts)FakeNoose
(33,150 posts)Many of us already have ...
liberalgunwilltravel
(349 posts)Something is seriously wrong with that boy.
myohmy2
(3,283 posts)...
Novara
(5,914 posts)SoFlaBro
(2,150 posts)SunSeeker
(52,006 posts)ShazzieB
(16,813 posts)OMG, is he ever addicted to conspiracy theories!
SunSeeker
(52,006 posts)onetexan
(13,110 posts)Privileged, entitled and unfettered selfcenteredness.
SunSeeker
(52,006 posts)womanofthehills
(8,859 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
(208,144 posts)kimbutgar
(21,367 posts)And I believe Steve Bannon is pushing him to run to throw the election to the orange maggots,
brooklynite
(95,365 posts)This is about a five minute walk. I would have gone for the entertainment value.
mahina
(17,869 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,382 posts)relayerbob
(6,578 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
(114,403 posts)was 9, his father assassinated when he was 14. But that is no excuse for inflicting himself on the body politic.
dflprincess
(28,118 posts)baffle them with bullshit.
LiberalFighter
(51,889 posts)Long term effects? They don't seem reversible in the brain.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,994 posts)This douchebag is not one of them.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,404 posts)JohnSJ
(92,631 posts)his polls.