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
(3,022 posts)I heard they sponged him up and drained him back into the jar of shoe polish from which he came.
tanyev
(42,792 posts)Blue Owl
(50,799 posts)RFKs only purpose is swaying over tRumps more stupid followers
lapfog_1
(29,271 posts)I will never vote for RFK Jr... even it was somehow the only way to stop trump.
He is a complete nutjob.
PatSeg
(47,991 posts)Hopefully, this isn't necessary:
ColinC
(8,395 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,152 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
(16,808 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
(17,865 posts)He does not deserve the other name.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,028 posts)mahina
(17,865 posts)Lol
AZ8theist
(5,587 posts)FakeNoose
(33,121 posts)Many of us already have ...
liberalgunwilltravel
(349 posts)Something is seriously wrong with that boy.
myohmy2
(3,280 posts)...
Novara
(5,913 posts)SoFlaBro
(2,138 posts)SunSeeker
(51,996 posts)ShazzieB
(16,808 posts)OMG, is he ever addicted to conspiracy theories!
SunSeeker
(51,996 posts)onetexan
(13,105 posts)Privileged, entitled and unfettered selfcenteredness.
SunSeeker
(51,996 posts)womanofthehills
(8,855 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
(208,084 posts)kimbutgar
(21,357 posts)And I believe Steve Bannon is pushing him to run to throw the election to the orange maggots,
brooklynite
(95,351 posts)This is about a five minute walk. I would have gone for the entertainment value.
mahina
(17,865 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,382 posts)relayerbob
(6,575 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
(114,392 posts)was 9, his father assassinated when he was 14. But that is no excuse for inflicting himself on the body politic.
dflprincess
(28,116 posts)baffle them with bullshit.
LiberalFighter
(51,866 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
(1,396 posts)JohnSJ
(92,618 posts)his polls.