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
(3,012 posts)I heard they sponged him up and drained him back into the jar of shoe polish from which he came.
tanyev
(42,711 posts)Blue Owl
(50,637 posts)RFKs only purpose is swaying over tRumps more stupid followers
lapfog_1
(29,247 posts)I will never vote for RFK Jr... even it was somehow the only way to stop trump.
He is a complete nutjob.
PatSeg
(47,801 posts)Hopefully, this isn't necessary:
ColinC
(8,360 posts)Ray Bruns
(4,135 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,605 posts)As it is, he's just accepted as a crazier version of MTG, without her sense of style or public speaking skills.
ShazzieB
(16,703 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
(17,790 posts)He does not deserve the other name.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,007 posts)mahina
(17,790 posts)Lol
AZ8theist
(5,551 posts)FakeNoose
(32,964 posts)Many of us already have ...
liberalgunwilltravel
(344 posts)Something is seriously wrong with that boy.
myohmy2
(3,244 posts)...
Novara
(5,891 posts)SoFlaBro
(2,046 posts)SunSeeker
(51,891 posts)ShazzieB
(16,703 posts)OMG, is he ever addicted to conspiracy theories!
SunSeeker
(51,891 posts)onetexan
(13,088 posts)Privileged, entitled and unfettered selfcenteredness.
SunSeeker
(51,891 posts)womanofthehills
(8,823 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
(207,267 posts)kimbutgar
(21,312 posts)And I believe Steve Bannon is pushing him to run to throw the election to the orange maggots,
brooklynite
(95,127 posts)This is about a five minute walk. I would have gone for the entertainment value.
mahina
(17,790 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,334 posts)relayerbob
(6,563 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
(114,076 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
(51,444 posts)Long term effects? They don't seem reversible in the brain.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,866 posts)This douchebag is not one of them.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(1,329 posts)JohnSJ
(92,582 posts)his polls.