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Trump’s team reached out to RFK Jr. ‘early on’ about serving as VP: ‘Wouldn’t write it off’
Nypost ^ | 01/27/2024 | Jon Levine

Posted on 01/27/2024 8:35:04 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27
Someone for everyone!

If you thought Covid was handled wonderfully with zero regrets, your guy is on the ticket. If you thought the handling of Covid was the worst domestic policy disaster in American history, your guy is also on the ticket!

21 posted on 01/27/2024 8:50:20 AM PST by Drew68 (Don't blame me. I wanted DeSantis.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I believe it. Kennedy came out very early on Twitter and made clear he wasn’t interested. Makes sense why he would do that now but I still think he wants to win in his own right.


22 posted on 01/27/2024 8:50:42 AM PST by erlayman (E )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This ticket would easily get 60% or more of the popular vote

I would be far more open to this than any establishment republican


23 posted on 01/27/2024 8:50:59 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Liz
Aha.....he’s just what Trump needs......an insurance policy.
Dems fear RFK much much more than they fear Trump.


RFK, Jr. has the ability to split the Rats between the Wall Street governing crowd, and the urban poor they exploit. Trump-RFK, Jr. would be a unity ticket. I don't rule it out completely, but Gen. Flynn I think is the more likely pick for Trump. However, Trump and RFK, Jr. could agree to direct their supporters to vote for the other in certain states so that Biden, or a replacement Rat candidate, can't win a majority in the electoral college. Trump supporters voting for RFK, Jr. in CA guarantees Biden can't win, and at worst a contingent election in the U.S. House which Trump should win, but with the RINOs you never know.
24 posted on 01/27/2024 8:51:30 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: cgbg

Amen.


25 posted on 01/27/2024 8:52:50 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give strength.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump has learned nothing if he picks him.


26 posted on 01/27/2024 8:52:54 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: StAnDeliver
In 2016, RFKjr put the entire weight of his National Resources Defense Council and the NRDC Action Fund behind Hillary Clinton.

I mean look, that endorsement is still up on his lame website! This was illegal dark money from a 501(c)(3) that is of a dollar amount as high as any other same-size non-profit threw at Cankles.

Really we should be asking, "Who is RFKjr going to tap as his VP?"

RFKjr will draw everything from BernieBros to Julias (unwed mothers who think the old man is hot) to the medicare age group who still remember Camelot. He's gotta get the right VP, though.

If he does, he'll hurt Biden tremendously...



27 posted on 01/27/2024 8:53:57 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A gun-grabbing Yankee Kennedy, hard pass.


28 posted on 01/27/2024 8:53:59 AM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Dr. Franklin

Beautiful deconstruction......Trump knows this......be sure of that.


29 posted on 01/27/2024 8:55:01 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give strength.)
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To: Liz

True. Probably shouldn’t underestimate what the Dems/MSM would do with an RFK POTUS candidate either . . .


30 posted on 01/27/2024 8:56:14 AM PST by MCSETots
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bannon was pushing this for a while months ago but the enthusiasm waned dramatically after people started looking into RFK Jr’s sordid past.


31 posted on 01/27/2024 8:56:18 AM PST by M. Thatcher
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Last time President Trump picked a nice calm uninteresting establishment Republican.

If he did that again that would be “learning nothing”.

RFK Jr. is a gamble—with real risk—but it is the exact opposite of the last choice.

On balance I think it is the right move—but there are legitimate arguments against it for sure.


32 posted on 01/27/2024 8:56:23 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Drew68
"If you thought Covid was handled wonderfully with zero regrets, your guy is on the ticket. If you thought the handling of Covid was the worst domestic policy disaster in American history, your guy is also on the ticket!"

The blame for COVID lies entirely with a short, s----eye guy in a bomb-proof room in Beijing. Some call him Pooh, others Xi Jinping.

Meanwhile, COVID living in your head rent-free 24/7 is probably something you should see a doctor for, no joke.

33 posted on 01/27/2024 8:57:38 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: erlayman

Kennedy looked askance at being VP when he was running as a Dem.

He’s now an Indy....and has a different perspective.

He’d have a better chance at the 2028 presidency being Trump’s VP....and he knows it.


34 posted on 01/27/2024 8:57:41 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give strength.)
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To: lowbridge

He’d be a lot better than backstabber Judas Pence


35 posted on 01/27/2024 8:58:29 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No, no, and NO!

So many better choices...
* Kari Lake
* Kristi Noem
* Elise Stefanik
* MTG


36 posted on 01/27/2024 8:59:06 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: StAnDeliver
Meanwhile, COVID living in your head rent-free 24/7 is probably something you should see a doctor for, no joke.

Yes, I'd like some accountability for the greatest domestic policy disaster of my lifetime.

I totally understand why Trumpers would rather not talk about it and would like the rest of us to forget everything that happened (unless we're blaming Ron DeSantis for propping up Dr. Fauci).

37 posted on 01/27/2024 9:00:52 AM PST by Drew68 (Don't blame me. I wanted DeSantis.)
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To: Liz

One reason I see potential in RFK Jr. is courage.

Taking on Big Pharma required stunning courage—and he did it for decades.

Almost nobody in public life dared to go there.

Views on policy can change—but courage is something you either have or you do not.

President Trump has it.

RFK Jr. has it.

These are the people you want fighting for you—because you know they will stick to it.


38 posted on 01/27/2024 9:01:24 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: cgbg

Look at the links there are many more! This is RFK Jr! A leftist nut who has the typical Kennedy attitude toward the women in his life. But you go right ahead and keep worshiping that clan!

https://nypost.com/2013/03/10/rfk-son-is-oil-broken-up-over-chavez-death/

https://reason.com/2023/04/28/the-very-strange-new-respect-for-authoritarian-democrat-robert-f-kennedy-jr/

https://news.yahoo.com/why-many-libertarians-suddenly-fond-160029097.html

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/779774/before-rfk-jr-blames-right-wing-for-murder-he-should-apologize-for-his-own-life-endangering-rhetoric/

https://www.johnlocke.org/reminding-the-right-about-rfk-jr-s-wrongs/

https://reason.com/2023/05/17/do-conservatives-actually-like-rfk-jr-or-do-they-just-think-hell-hurt-biden/


39 posted on 01/27/2024 9:02:06 AM PST by Reily (!!)
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To: StAnDeliver

A VP does not have that much power.....he can only do what the president signs off on.

A VP cannot even have classified documents, for instance.


40 posted on 01/27/2024 9:02:41 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give strength.)
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